April 30th, 2018 Governments are meeting for the next round of UN climate change negotiations over the following fortnight to further develop guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Countries will meet from 30 April to 10 May to accelerate and complete their work to put in place Read more…
November 18th, 2017 The impacts of climate change on wildlife were discussed at COP23 in Bonn with innovative assessment tools and novel funding schemes presented as possible solutions. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) hosted a panel discussion Wildlife and Climate Change in the Panda Hub conference room in Bonn on Wednesday. Read more…
November 17th, 2017 The middle of the second week at COP is when the big names arrive. Prior to this it is the officials who have been spending long days and night poring over the negotiations, hoping to present their political masters with the groundwork largely done and enabling the Read more…
November 16th, 2017 Former Irish President Mary Robinson has called for the creation of a Climate Action Justice Unit at a high-level event on human rights at COP23 event. Speaking this afternoon in Bonn, Ms Robinson said that such a unit could help build upon previous work to ensure climate Read more…
November 16th, 2017 Severe flooding, coastal disasters, and other unpredictable severe weather event are just some of the impacts of climate change spelled out in detailed over the past week at COP23 in Bonn, Germany. In the direct line of such extreme weather variations on a day-to-day basis are the Read more…
November 15th, 2017 The Minister for Climate Action today announced that the Government will provide additional funding to support vulnerable countries hit hardest by the impacts of climate change. Speaking prior to his departure to the COP23 Conference in Bonn, the Minister said that the Government will now provide an Read more…
November 15th, 2017 A “transformation” of agricultural sectors and food systems is required to meet a rise in hunger across the globe, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today. Speaking at a high-level event on hunger at the global climate conference in Bonn, Germany, José Graziano Read more…
November 9th, 2017 A new initiative led by three of the world’s’ largest environmental NGOs aims to restore and protect one trillion trees by 2050 was outlined at COP23 in Bonn yesterday. The TrillionTrees project, coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and BirdLife Read more…
