The Daily IIJ

By Yasmin Arquiza
A last-minute agreement brokered by US President Barack Obama during the closing hours of the climate summit here Friday does not provide enough financing for poor countries that stand to suffer the most from the negative impact of climate change, an expert Filipina negotiator said. “The Copenhagen Accord is damaging to poor countries,” [...]

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By Priscilla Jebaraj
World leaders may have given up on saving the planet from climate change here at the UN talks at Copenhagen. Instead, they are negotiating a declaration which could be aimed at saving face.

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By Goutam Mondal
World leaders are meeting on this morning to hammer out a declaration in the dying hours of the Copenhagen climate conference. On the table at the moment is a figure on the need for long-term funding for climate action in developing countries, but no clarity on who will provide the money and where [...]

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By Justus Wanzala
Climate friendly agricultural systems are key to fighting global warming and ensuring adequate food humanity. James Harkness, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy said in a session on importance of agriculture in fighting climate change at the on going Copenhagen Climate change talks that agriculture as a sector can reduce [...]

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By Simit Bhagat
The endgame at the climate change battle has begun. The best option for India and developing countries, it became clear on Tuesday, is to ensure that the industrialized countries are not able to set grounds to kill Kyoto and rewrite the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in future negotiations.

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By Newton Sibanda
South Africa has said that developed countries must commit to ambitious and legally binding carbon emission reduction targets of at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
In a statement issued by the Department of Environmental Affairs at the ongoing UN Climate change conference, South Africa said this was in accordance with the [...]

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By Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe
The Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mr. Meles Zenawi announced today that Africa was ready to accept a mitigation and adaptation fund portfolio between 50 and 100 billion USD. The fund would start 2013 to reach up to 50 billion dollars per annum by 2015 and 100billion USD per [...]

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By Juliana Radler
Brasil investirá US$ 5 bilhões em ações de combate às mudanças climáticas em países da África e da América Latina. Um dos pontos de maior discussão na conferência do Clima em Copenhague tem sido a questão do financiamento para o fundo de combate às mudanças climáticas que será criado para que os países [...]

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By Yasmin Arquiza
From her handbag, expert climate negotiator Bernarditas Castro-Muller fishes out a piece of bond paper and folds it into five parts. She holds up one-fifth of the folded paper, and points out that it represents the minimal contribution of developing countries such as the Philippines to global carbon emissions.

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By Newton Sibanda
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged ministers at the UN climate summit not to be distracted from the goal of preserving the world from climate catastrophe. In a statement issued on the sidelines of the summit yesterday, WWF urged ministers to adopt a common vision where the average global temperature [...]

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