UK joins UN fund to throw US$800 million to Asia’s loggers, palm-oil barons and politicians

JAKARTA ~ The UK is to donate £100 million (US$150 million) to tropical countries such as Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Vietnam, to help them protect forests and reduce their impact on climate change.
The donation will be made through a fund operated under a new initiative of the United Nations which aims to extend carbon [...]

UN’s greenhouse gas program in tatters: leading auditor suspended

TOKYO ~ The UN’s climate change body has suspended one of its leading auditing companies after a spot check revealed ‘irregularities’.
Currently hosting climate change talks in Poland, the UNFCCC has found that Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is guilty of “non-conformity” in carrying out work in the name of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
CDM [...]

UN Climate Change Conference set to begin Monday

SINGAPORE ~  The United Nations Climate Change Conference - Poznań, Poland gets underway on Monday.
The two-week meeting, the fourteenth Conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fourth meeting of the 183 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the half-way mark in the negotiations on an [...]