The Daily IIJ

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 [...]

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By Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe The chief negotiator of the African Working Group at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mr. Djemoui Kamez, has accused the industrialised countries of trying short change Africa by bypassing the Kyoto protocol. That, he explained, necessitated an emergency meeting among the delegates, who then decided to pull out of [...]

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By Justus Wanzala The European Union (EU), is ready to commit 7.2 billion Euros to fight climate change across the globe. In a statement by the Swedish presidency at the on going Copenhagen climate talks, the EU urged other developed countries to announce their commitments and incorporate them in any agreement to be reached at [...]

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While all nations participating in the climate change conference in Copenhagen are trying to get a share of the climate change deal, Bangladesh does not want to be lagging far behind. By Simit Bhagat

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What are the impacts of climate change for the most vulnerable and poor? How can the industrialized world fight global warming and how can they support the developing countries? The IIJ invited journalists from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia to the UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) in [...]

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