DARA, a leading humanitarian research organization, and the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group of committed most vulnerable countries, Friday launched a major new global report on the state of the climate crisis.
The flexibility China and the United States have each exhibited during the climate change negotiations in the past few days demonstrates important progress, said UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres.
Certain ocean organisms, particularly shellfish and corals, are losing their ability to form skeletons as a result of increasing "ocean acidification," a marine environmental problem triggered by accumulating concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide in the ocean, a new report said.
TCKTCKTCK campaigners urge Japan not to kill the Kyoto Protocol.
China's chief climate change negotiator, two days into the two-week conference, voiced his frustration over Japan's forceful rejection of an extension to the gas restrictions set under the Kyoto Protocol, calling the decision "not a very welcomed position".
Securing a guarantee for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol is crucial for the nations to move the current climate negotiations forward, said Sergio B. Serra, Brazil's ambassador for climate change during an interview with China Daily on Wednesday.
Protesters voiced their concerns for the fate of the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations climate change conference.
The year 2010 has almost certainly been among the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
There is still no absolute yes or no to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from the European Union side, said Peter Wittoeck, a Belgian envoy who speaks for the EU, during a press conference at the two-week climate summit in Cancun.
Former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Thursday developed countries should share their experience and technologies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions with developing countries.
China is responding to climate change on many fronts and its efforts in developing green energy are noteworthy, according to delegates attending the UN climate change conference.
Indonesia wants to see a legal binding solution at the ongoing world environment summit held in Cancun, Mexico, replacing the Kyoto Protocol accord that will expire in 2012.