Posts Tagged ‘Framework Convention On Climate Change’

Why enviros can’t sleep at night

Guess what keeps environmentalists up at night? And worries me, too? If President Obama and the Democrats are struggling to find 60 votes in the Senate to pass domestic climate-change legislation, how on earth will they get the 67 votes needed to ratify a global treaty to deal with the problem, even assuming –and this is a big assumption — that the UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, for the uninitiated) can get a global deal done this winter in Copenha


United Nations Executive Board of the CDM Holds 48th Meeting at St. George’s University

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Spiceislander.com |Monday 6th July, 2009: St. George’s University (SGU) is partnering with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Government of Grenada by hosting the 48th Executive Board Meeting of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).Under the Kyoto Protocol, there are mechanisms which aim to address the problem of climate change by reducing green hou


ITC’s Unique Social Forestry Project Bags Carbon Credits for Poor Tribals

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Merinews.com |KOLKATA, India, June 10 /PRNewswire/ — The CDM Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has confirmed the registration of ITC’s unique and large-scale social forestry project - a first of its kind in India.The project also makes a very significant contribution bycreating a carbon sink of 3070.19 hectares, which not only helps in sequestrati


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