The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, COP 15, gets underway
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has begun! See everyting what is going on on the UNFCCC website.
Quarter of a million climate signatures handed to UN
22-09-2008 - Today, 244,388 signatures gathered during Vattenfall’s global climate initiative are being handed to the UN’s official environmental programme “Seal the Deal”. The signatures are being handed over to UN during the current climate summit meeting in New York. Link
World Bank: Climate change will cost 100 billion USD a year
Intense rainfall and rising sea levels will increase costs for infrastructure projects such as roads and flood defenses in developing countries, a new World Bank study predicts. Link
Fifth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-5)
From June 30 to July 3, 2009, the Air Quality and Climate Change Section of the Netherlands Association of Environmental Professionals (VVM) organizes its Fifth International Symposium on science, implementation and policy aspects of non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-5). NCGG-5 will be held in Wageningen in The Netherlands and will address not only the role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases and aerosol in human-induced climate change, but
