http://www.mail.com/subjects/1936-environmental-policy.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1936-environmental-policy.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039680-un-official-hopeful-2015-climate-talks.html DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in contrast with the failure of such an effort in 2009, the U.N. climate chief said Tuesday. The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, setting back the ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:58:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039680-un-official-hopeful-2015-climate-talks.html 2013-04-23T19:58:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2027890-gorbachev-sees-global-failure-to-address-eco-risks.html GENEVA (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress, two decades after he founded the environmental group Green Cross International. Laying much of the blame on a lack of leadership and vision, he railed against governments for falling short on nuclear disarmament, waste, development... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:48:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2027890-gorbachev-sees-global-failure-to-address-eco-risks.html 2013-04-18T14:48:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1941124-poland-aims-to-pave-way-2015-climate-deal.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hoping to win over EU critics of Poland's recent stance on climate change, the environment minister said Friday that the coal-powered nation will make every effort to pave the way for a lasting deal in 2015 when it hosts a U.N. global warming conference in November. Last year, Poland vetoed the EU's road map for emissions reductions ... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:13:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1941124-poland-aims-to-pave-way-2015-climate-deal.html 2013-03-08T17:13:42Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844134-buoyed-obama-leaders-press-climate-action.html DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change. Top political and financial leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos say recent natural disasters, along with Obama's inauguration announcement this week that he's making the battle again... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844134-buoyed-obama-leaders-press-climate-action.html 2013-01-24T19:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1836856-ap-interview-un-chief-wants-action-climate.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says his top hopes for 2013 are to reach a new agreement on climate change and to urgently end the increasingly deadly and divisive war in Syria. The U.N. chief told The Associated Press that he's also hoping for progress in getting the global economy humming again, restarting Israeli-Palestinian pe... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1836856-ap-interview-un-chief-wants-action-climate.html 2013-01-22T07:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1775716-china-top-dam-builder-going-where-wont.html TATAY RIVER, Cambodia (AP) — Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame the Tatay and other rivers of Koh Kong province, one of Southeast Asia's last great wilderness areas. I... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1775716-china-top-dam-builder-going-where-wont.html 2012-12-19T06:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761360-polish-energy-advisor-using-coal-energy.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An advisor to the Polish government says the country should keep using its coal for decades to come, despite a European Union policy of replacing the polluting fossil fuel with cleaner sources. Krzysztof Zmijewski, an expert on carbon gas emissions, said Wednesday that as global demand for energy rises, Poland should continue to use ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761360-polish-energy-advisor-using-coal-energy.html 2012-12-12T15:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1755828-un-climate-talks-qatar-boost-gulf-awareness.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Holding a high-profile U.N. climate change conference in Qatar, smack in the middle of the region that produces so much of the fossil fuel blamed for global warming, was a gamble. In the end, it displayed the hosts' drive for a leading place on the world stage and evoked a surprising new regional awareness of the environmental crisis. T... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1755828-un-climate-talks-qatar-boost-gulf-awareness.html 2012-12-10T13:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1754536-climate-talks-eyes-us-round.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Even as international climate talks ended this weekend with no new commitments on carbon emissions or climate aid from the United States, some were relieved America didn't make a weak deal even weaker. Other countries are now watching to see if the Obama administration will back up post-election comments about climate change with renewe... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1754536-climate-talks-eyes-us-round.html 2012-12-09T18:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1752580-un-conference-adopts-extension-kyoto-accord.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, but will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions. The extension was adopted by a U.N. climate conference after hard-fought sessions and despite objections fr... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1752580-un-conference-adopts-extension-kyoto-accord.html 2012-12-08T18:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747874-tensions-mount-un-climate-talks.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed rich countries can spare to help the developing world tackle global warming. That issue has overshadowed the talks since they started last week in Qatar, the first Middle Eastern country t... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747874-tensions-mount-un-climate-talks.html 2012-12-06T20:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747318-middle-east-to-embrace-solar-energy.html ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates. It will be the first, large-scale solar project in the oil-rich country when it is completed at the end of the year, and the largest of its kind in the M... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747318-middle-east-to-embrace-solar-energy.html 2012-12-06T06:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744448-clashes-financing-threat-un-climate-talks.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The world's poorest nations on Wednesday called for significant financing to cope with the impacts of global warming, setting up a potential clash with rich countries that could slow progress on reaching a global climate pact by 2015. Rich countries, including the United States, said at U.N. climate talks in Doha that they have fulfille... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744448-clashes-financing-threat-un-climate-talks.html 2012-12-05T18:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744352-world-bank-arab-world-hit-hard-climate-change.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, saying the region will see less rainfall, more recording-breaking temperatures and rising sea levels. Should temperatures rise as expected, the hotter conditions are likely to hit the region's ... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744352-world-bank-arab-world-hit-hard-climate-change.html 2012-12-05T07:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1741970-climate-talks-un-chief-rejects-warming-doubts.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Pointing to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other weather disasters this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international climate conference Tuesday that it was time to "prove wrong" those who still have doubts about global warming. Ban, addressing delegates at the annual U.N. climate talks, said time is runn... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1741970-climate-talks-un-chief-rejects-warming-doubts.html 2012-12-04T17:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1739516-fossil-fuel-subsidies-focus-climate-talks.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. "Thank God that our country is an oil producer and the price of gasoline is one of the lowest," al-Kubaisi said, filling up his Toyota Land Cruiser at a gas station in Doha. "God has given us a blessing." ... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1739516-fossil-fuel-subsidies-focus-climate-talks.html 2012-12-03T17:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1737852-zealand-forget-kyoto-write-climate-deal.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Highlighting a rift between the rich countries and emerging economies like China, New Zealand's climate minister staunchly defended his government's decision to drop out of the emissions pact for developed nations, saying it's an outdated and insufficient response to global warming. Other key issues at the conference, now starting its s... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1737852-zealand-forget-kyoto-write-climate-deal.html 2012-12-03T00:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1736252-climate-activists-march-un-talks-qatar.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration Saturday for "climate justice" in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are debating about how to slow global warming and help protect the most vulnerable countries from rising seas and other impacts of climate change. Waving banners saying "Stop climate change" and "A... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1736252-climate-activists-march-un-talks-qatar.html 2012-12-01T11:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1736008-wish-islam-would-inform-climate-debate.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine. Not a word about climate change, even though the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is hosting a U.N. conference where nearly 200 countries are trying to forge a join... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1736008-wish-islam-would-inform-climate-debate.html 2012-12-01T08:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1733794-un-climate-boss-support-tough-climate-deal.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The United Nations climate chief is urging people not to look solely to their governments to make tough decisions to slow global warming, and instead to consider their own role in solving the problem. Approaching the half-way point of two-week climate talks in Doha, Christiana Figueres, the head of the U.N.'s climate change secretariat,... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1733794-un-climate-boss-support-tough-climate-deal.html 2012-11-30T16:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1728134-arctic-sea-ice-larger-than-us-melted-this-year.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before our eyes." In a report released at U.N. climate talks in the Qatari capital of Doha, the World Meteorological Organization said the Arctic ice m... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1728134-arctic-sea-ice-larger-than-us-melted-this-year.html 2012-11-28T19:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1725692-un-climate-scientist-sandy-coincidence.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Though it's tricky to link a single weather event to climate change, Hurricane Sandy was "probably not a coincidence" but an example of the extreme weather events that are likely to strike the U.S. more often as the world gets warmer, the U.N. climate panel's No. 2 scientist said Tuesday. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the vice chairman of t... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1725692-un-climate-scientist-sandy-coincidence.html 2012-11-27T18:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1724046-whats-your-qelro-fast-guide-to-un-climate-lingo.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Every time U.N. negotiators meet for their annual climate talks, they come up with a new set of unintuitive acronyms, as if to make sure that people outside the climate bubble won't understand what they're talking about. So here's a guide that will help you crack the code to the climate lingo at the two-week conference that started Mond... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1724046-whats-your-qelro-fast-guide-to-un-climate-lingo.html 2012-11-26T15:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1722442-un-to-launch-round-talks-global-warming.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas-rich Qatar for annual talks starting Monday on slowing global warming, one of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil. Rich countries have delivered nearly $30 billion in grants and loans promised in 2009, but ... Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1722442-un-to-launch-round-talks-global-warming.html 2012-11-25T15:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1721054-will-us-role-climate-talks-change-storm.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — During a year with a monster storm and scorching heat waves, Americans have experienced the kind of freakish weather that many scientists say will occur more often on a warming planet. And as a re-elected president talks about global warming again, climate activists are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. will be more than a disinterest... Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1721054-will-us-role-climate-talks-change-storm.html 2012-11-24T15:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1718642-qatar-set-to-host-major-climate-talks.html DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — When the tiny desert nation of Qatar was chosen to host the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations, environmentalists were stunned. Talks were already in trouble, and now the high-level discussions were moving to a member of OPEC that had shown little interest in climate change and appointed a former ... Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1718642-qatar-set-to-host-major-climate-talks.html 2012-11-22T14:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1716066-un-report-warns-widening-climate-gap.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — A U.N. report on rising greenhouse gas emissions reminded world governments Wednesday that their efforts to fight climate change are far from enough to meet their stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). The report by the U.N. Environment Program, released just days ahead of a major climate conference,... Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1716066-un-report-warns-widening-climate-gap.html 2012-11-21T09:26:00Z