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UN Climate Change Conference Ends with a Deal after Threats from China and Tense Disagreements

By Tracey de Morsella on December 11, 2010 1 Comment Canada, Cancun, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon footprints, carbon-absorbant forests, CDM Watch, China, Christiana Figueres, Claire Parker, Climate Change, climate impacts, deforestation, disease migration, Doug Boucher, drought, Durban, Environmental Investigation Agency, European carbon market, floods, forests, global warming, Green Climate Fund, greenhouse gases, HCFC-22 refrigerant, India, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Japan, Joe Mendelson, kyoto protocol, Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, melting glaciers, National Wildlife Federation, ozone layer, REDD+, renewable energy, Russia, sea-level rise, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, South Africa, species extinctions, The Cancun Agreements, tropical deforestation, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations, United States

UN Climate Change Conference Ends with a Deal after Threats from China and Tense Disagreements

Progress was made on a number of important issues at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun last week, but the US Senate’s failure to pass clean energy legislation tied the hands of negotiators to come to a full global deal.

Oil and Gas at Risk From Climate Change but The Industry is Not Prepared

By Janet Palma on November 24, 2009 Comments Off on Oil and Gas at Risk From Climate Change but The Industry is Not Prepared Acclimatise, adaptation, Alan Roberts, Climate Change, climate risks, corporate reputation, corporate social responsibility, CSR, design standards, drought, flooding, fossil fuels, geo-political unrest, Global Oil & Gas - The Adaptation Challenge, health and safety risk assessments, health and safety risks, investors, oil and gas industry, performance management, Physical Asset Failure, regulatory policies, stakeholder, sustainable energy, water quality, water resources, water shortages

A new report entitled Global Oil & Gas – The Adaptation Challenge has identified top five impacts of climate change to the oil and gas industry. While three quarters of the world’s oil and gas companies surveyed believe climate change could impact their business, only 19 percent are taking action as noted in this report.