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Did Cancun Prove the UN Irrelevant in Tackling Climate? Enter Plan B

By Yale Environment 360 on January 3, 2011 4 Comments Ban Ki-moon, Cancun climate conference, cap-and-trade, carbon trading market, China, Copenhagen, cost-effective, Durban, Eliot Diringer, emissions, energy-efficient, Ethiopia, Fred Pearce, George Soros, gigaton gap, green growth, greenhouse gas, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kyoto, kyoto protocol, lLow-carbon, low-carbon business, low-carbon economic growth, low-carbon revolution, Mexico, new energy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, REDD+, Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, sustainability, sustainable, The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet’s Surprising Future, UN emissions limits, UN Environment Program, UNEP, United States, When The Rivers Run Dry, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Yale environment360

The Cancun conference is being credited with keeping international climate talks alive. But the real potential for bringing emissions under control may lie in a Plan B, with nations acting on their own in moving toward a low-carbon economy.

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

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.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Has Increased Dramatically

By Tracey de Morsella on August 11, 2009 4 Comments Africa, Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, environmental performance, Ernst Ligteringen, Europe, G3 Guidelines, Germany, Global Reporting Initiative, greenhouse gas emissions, GRI, Italy, Japan, Latin America, North America, Oceania, public disclosure, social performance, South Africa, Spain, sustainability crisis, sustainability indicators, sustainability performance, sustainability reports, UK, United States, USA

New figures released recently show that the number of companies and other organizations publicly disclosing their performance against a range of key sustainability indicators has risen markedly over the last year. The Global Reporting Initiative is now tracking of over 1000 organizations worldwide who issued sustainability reports based on the GRI G3 Guidelines in 2008 – the highest number ever recorded. The figure represents an increase of 46 per cent on the 2007 figure of 685.