Mexico says its $10 billion ‘green fund’ against climate change better than carbon credits

September 30th, 2009 Gore discusses climate impasse with Mexican leaderMEXICO CITY — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has met with Mexico's president to discuss the importance of breaking an impasse over a new global warming pact.

September 24th, 2009 TORONTO - Capturing carbon directly from the air is the only way to prevent dangerous climate changes, says a pioneering Canadian scientist. University of Calgary scientist David Keith says governments need to earmark more research funding for technologies to capture carbon dioxide in surrounding air to save the planet.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A unique "Green Jobs Fair" was inaugurated Thursday here to create a national movement for a "green economic revolution" to combat climate change in a better way. Over 100 organisations working on sustainability, ranging from traditional firms such as a property developer looking for an energy efficiency expert to NGOs working on environmental policy, are participating in the fair.

August 10th, 2009 New Zealand sets greenhouse gas emissions targetWELLINGTON, New Zealand —New Zealand announced on Monday that it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the country's climate change minister said. The target, confirmed by the Cabinet, will be presented later Monday at an international climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, Nick Smith said.

July 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - There is "no inherent contradiction between poverty eradication and moving towards a low-carbon economy", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday, signalling her government's approach towards India in the area of combating climate change. "The United States fully supports India's efforts to move all its people out of poverty," Clinton said at a news conference here.

July 15th, 2009 Britain presents plans to cut emissions, add jobsLONDON — The British government detailed ambitious plans Wednesday to cut carbon emissions substantially by 2020, and said 40 percent of the country's electricity by then would come from renewable sources. The proposal on fighting climate change envisions expansions in wind energy as well as continued use of nuclear power and clean coal.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - India is hopeful that the issue of climate change will move forward with the G8 countries, the group of the world's most developed nations, discussing the setting up of a Green Fund. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran said Friday that the step by the G8 to provide financial assistance to the Green Fund was a "forward-looking one".

July 6th, 2009 TORONTO - Vast amounts of carbon, about twice as much as contained in the atmosphere, is stored in the Arctic, according to a new study. The amount of carbon in frozen soils, sediments and river deltas raises new concerns over the role of the northern regions as future sources of greenhouse gases.

June 26th, 2009 For UN and its leader, climate deal stakes highUNITED NATIONS — For Ban Ki-moon, bringing about a new U.N. climate treaty by the end of this year is a must.

June 24th, 2009 US nixes 40 percent cuts at climate change talksMEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama's climate envoy dismissed recommendations that the United States and other developed countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases 40 percent by 2020. "The 40 percent below 1990 (levels) is something which in our judgment is not necessary, and not feasible given where we're starting from, so it's not in the cards," Todd Stern said Tuesday at a conference on global warming.

June 22nd, 2009 JIUTEPEC - Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has called on the world's leading nations to contribute $10 billion to endow a Global Green Fund charged with financing programmes to combat climate change. "We want it to become a financial mechanism that mobilises and brings together the different investment efforts dealing with climate change," Calderon said Monday in this central Mexican city of Jiutepec at the beginning of a two-day preparatory session for a forum next month on energy and climate.

June 19th, 2009 SKorean PM says climate change a threat to AsiaSEOUL, South Korea — South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said Friday that Asia is at grave risk from climate change and warned that responding to the environmental threat cannot be separated from fighting the global economic crisis. "Asian countries are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change," Han said in a speech at the annual World Economic Forum on East Asia.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - One hundred senior legislators from around the globe meeting in Rome Friday called on the world's wealthiest eight countries to transfer up to $140 billion per year to developing countries while "laying their cards on the table" to help fight climate change. The legislators, including five from India, said it was imperative for the Group of Eight (G8) countries to state exactly how much of their individual carbon emissions they intended to cut well before world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to agree upon a final climate change strategy.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Fat people are a threat to the planet as they are contributing to climate change, believes Sir Jonathan Porritt, the Government's chief green adviser. In a lecture to representatives of the food industry, Sir Jonathan, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, said, "fat is a climate change issue", reports The Telegraph.

January 30th, 2009 DAVOS - With the economic crisis likely to dominate much of 2009, world leaders in Davos have urged that climate change should remain in focus. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others attending the World Economic Forum warned against letting the economic worries overshadow the need to solve the climate issues as the two were interconnected.