"Ailing UN Climate Talks Jolted by Record Surge in Greenhouse Gases" [1]
"The record leap in global greenhouse gas emissions last year has thrown the spotlight on the world's only concerted attempt to stem the tide of global warming -- the United Nations climate negotiations.
Next week, governments will convene in Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of more than 20 years of tortuous talks, aimed at forging a binding international agreement on climate change which so far has eluded them.
Little is expected of the meeting, a staging post on the road to a bigger conference in Durban, South Africa, in December. But the data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) should shock even the most jaded of negotiators.
'I hope these estimates provide a wake-up call to governments,' said Lord Stern, a London School of Economics professor and author of the landmark review on the economics of climate change. 'Progress in international discussions since the modest successes [at the last UN meeting] in Cancún last December has been slow.'"
Fiona Harvey reports for the Guardian May 29, 2011. [2]
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"World’s Cities Taking Steps on Climate Change as Governments Bicker at UN" (Bloomberg) [6]
"President-Designate for Durban Climate Talks Named" (ICTSD) [7]
"South Africa Hosts Ministerial Meeting To Devise Strategies For COP 17" (Bernama) [8]
"World Must Face 'Inconvenient Truth' of Emissions Rise, Says Un Climate Chief" (Guardian) [9]
"Dangerous Climate Change 'almost Impossible' To Stop After Huge Rise in Greenhouse Gases" (Daily Mirror) [10]