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Chair of IPCC Review Panel Backs Climate Science Assessment Process, Despite Flaws : Blog : Breaking : Climate Central
On Monday, Harold Shapiro, a former president of and current economics professor at Princeton University, formally presented the United Nations with a report assessing the procedures of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had come under intense criticism for months, beginning with the so-called “climategate” affair late in 2009 and continuing with the discovery of a few errors in the panel’s most recent report, issued in 2007 (most notably the “glaciergate” misstep in reporting how quickly Himalayan glaciers will melt). Critics also accused the IPCC’s Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, of conflicts of interest related to his financial dealings.
Posted in Climate, Countries, Opposing Views, UNFCCC
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Africa Climate, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change
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Bolivia summit to seeks global climate deal
Thousands of people, mostly members of social movements and indigenous groups, are expected to attend the People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights from April 20-22.Organizers say it is intended to “give a voice to the people” on climate change after the perceived failure of the United Nations-sponsored Copenhagen summit on the same issue.Solon said he expected participants from 94 countries and representatives from 70 governments to attend, without giving further details.
via AFP: Bolivia summit to seek global climate change referendum.
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Tagged Bolivia, Climate Change, evo, Morales
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UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says – BusinessWeek
“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”
The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While about 150 nations agreed to submit plans or targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the meeting failed to produce a global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which lapses in 2012.
“Going back from Copenhagen, I was extremely disappointed,” de Boer said. “My first feeling was it had been an absolute disaster.”
via UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says – BusinessWeek.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Floods, UNFCCC
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Africa Climate, Agriculture, Biodiversity, biofuel, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Copenhagen, IPCC, Soil
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The East African - Spain gives giant Turkana Wind Power Project $150m funding
The massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project will involve construction of 365 giant wind turbines. Photo/REUTERS
Lake Turkana Wind Power Ltd — the largest wind power project in Africa and Kenya’s most ambitious green energy venture yet — has just achieved a major breakthrough with the Spanish government stepping in with a $150 million (€110 million) offer to finance construction of the transmission line.
The entry of the Spaniards has come at a time when anxiety was beginning to grow over whether the massive project would achieve financial closure.
African Development Bank, the financial arrangers of the project, had warned the government that reaching financial closure on the 300MW wind farm would be difficult without a firm commitment that financing of the transmission line was fully funded.
via The East African - Spain gives giant Turkana Wind Power Project $150m funding.
What is wrong with the Global Climate Change Architecture?
In his submission before retiring to the private sector, Yvo de Boer sent a warning short, it is impossible to change the climate change architecture from inside the UN.
Does he know something we dont know? What is wrong with the current architecture? Is it at the Kyoto Protocol level or is it at the “Financing mechanism level”, or is the current framework not able to deliver any depictable positive change?
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Posted in Climate, Coal, Floods, Freeze, Map, Opposing Views, Politics, UNFCCC, solar
Tagged architecture, Climate, de boer, developing countries
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Independent Board to Review Work of Top Climate Panel – NYTimes.com
Several countries made clear at the meeting in Bali that they would prefer that the review panel be appointed by an independent group of scientists rather than the climate panel. The plans for assembling the panel would be announced next week.
According to Mr Nuttall, this will bringing some level of closure to the issue of “Climate Gate and Himalaya Galcier Melting prediction.
One area to be examined is whether the panel should incorporate so-called gray literature, a term to describe nonpeer-reviewed science, in its reports.
Many scientists say that such material, ranging from reports by government agencies to respected research not published in scientific journals, is crucial to seeking a complete picture of the state of climate science.
The IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore for a report that called climate change “unequivocal” and “very likely” caused by human activity, announced Saturday that it will seek independent review of its major reports.
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BBC News – Vast iceberg ‘may disrupt ocean currents’
Dr Neal Young, a glaciologist at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Research Centre in Tasmania, told the BBC that any disruption to the production of the super cold water – known as bottom water – in the region would affect ocean currents, and consequently weather patterns, for years to come.”This area accounts for about 25% of the production of bottom water in Antarctica, and therefore it will reduce the overturning circulation rate,” he said.
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Tagged Australia, bottom water, glaciology, iceberg, Neal Young
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Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters
De Boer said developing countries would want to know what a treaty would mean “in terms of obligations and what its going to bring for them in terms of finance and technology, before they are willing to take that step and say yes, we are willing to work toward a legally binding treaty.”
“So I think the first step will be to get the architecture right and I think that can be done in Mexico (Cancun, Mexico, from November 29-December 10). The next step would be to decide on a treaty on it,” he said
via Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters.
Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters
De Boer said developing countries would want to know what a treaty would mean “in terms of obligations and what its going to bring for them in terms of finance and technology, before they are willing to take that step and say yes, we are willing to work toward a legally binding treaty.”
“So I think the first step will be to get the architecture right and I think that can be done in Mexico (Cancun, Mexico, from November 29-December 10). The next step would be to decide on a treaty on it,” he said
via Hard to agree on U.N. climate treaty in 2010: de Boer | Reuters.
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Tagged de boer, Mexico, Mexico 29-10 December, Un
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Kenya Seeks $1 Billion in Debut Bond, PM Odinga Says Update1 – Bloomberg.com
Feb. 3 Bloomberg — Kenya plans to raise between $500 million and $1 billion in its first international bond sale to help finance renewable energy projects, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said.The sale will be this year or early in 2011, Odinga said in a statement prepared in response to questions from Bloomberg News.Kenya joins Angola, Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal among African nations planning to tap the international bond market for the first time as stronger growth in developing economies and higher yields on debt securities help lure investors. Kenya canceled a planned $500 million bond issue in 2008 as the global financial crisis caused credit markets to shut down and raised the cost of borrowing.
via Kenya Seeks $1 Billion in Debut Bond, PM Odinga Says Update1 – Bloomberg.com.