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LEXEGESE | 29. März 2012 —European Union ambassadors were due to meet on Wednesday in an effort to settle a dispute over the allocation of seats to member states on the United Nations' Green Climate Fund (GCF) board, sources close to the matter said. Source: Reuters …

LEXEGESE | 22. März 2012 —South Africa on Wednesday urged the European Union to suspend for two years its controversial airline emissions trading scheme (ETS) to allow time for a global agreement on carbon charges to be worked out through the United Nations. Source: Reuters …

LEXEGESE | 24. Februar 2012 —The World Bank, acting as trustee for the United Nations Adaptation Fund, resumed sales of UN emission credits at the start of this month after the fund missed higher prices at the end of last year. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 22. Februar 2012 —China probably won’t allow United Nations carbon credits in its cap-and-trade program unless they are approved by a domestic regulator, according to an official at the Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 20. Dezember 2011 —At the United Nations climate conference in Durban earlier this month, five multilateral development banks have formed a new partnership to combat climate change. They will develop a common approach for cities to assess climate risk, standardize greenhouse gas emissions inventories, and encourag…

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LEXEGESE | 15. Dezember 2011 —The deal struck by United Nations envoys this week to fight climate change gives the biggest polluters three options for a wider agreement by 2015, setting the stage for renewed discord between rich and poor countries. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 2. Dezember 2011 —The United Nations began work topreserve a key pillar of the carbon market as Brazil and Chinasaid the program had no future unless rich countries accept newgoals for cutting greenhouse gases. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 1. Dezember 2011 —Brazil joined China saying that nodeal is possible at United Nations climate talks this yearwithout a new round of targets for industrial nations under theKyoto Protocol. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 29. November 2011 —The Energy and Resources Institute's Arabinda Mishra says 16 out of the 28 Indian states have climate change action plans in place. Mishra was presenting the findings of a recent study at the COP 17 United Nations conference on climate change in Durban. India has committed itself to reducing…

LEXEGESE | 28. November 2011 —A pledge that could be worth $100 billion each year to developing countries was one of the few concrete outcomes of a United Nations climate summit meeting two years ago in Copenhagen that was otherwise seen as a fiasco. Source: New York Times …

LEXEGESE | 25. November 2011 —Renewable energy is surpassingfossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments,shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse atthe United Nations global warming talks. Source: Bloomberg …

LEXEGESE | 9. November 2011 —Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that the forthcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, should produce agreement on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, and launch the green climate fund for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. …

LEXEGESE | 4. November 2011 —The United Nations body responsible for civil aviation weighed in against the European Union's emissions trading scheme on Wednesday, increasing pressure on the EU to back down in what threatens to become a serious trade dispute. Source: Reuters …

LEXEGESE | 19. Oktober 2011 — ... sieht die Regierung ein Potenzial von mehr als 40.000 neuen Arbeitsplätzen. Offiziell eingeweiht wird die SARi-Finanzierungsinitiative bei der United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP 17), die im Dezember in Durban vom Gastgeberland …

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LEXEGESE | 7. Oktober 2011 —China and the European Union are at odds over the future of the United Nations carbon market and the Kyoto Protocol, a rift that threatens agreement at next month’s ministerial climate-change conference in South Africa. Source: Bloomberg …