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Daily podcast – December 8, 2011
PODCAST
Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change,...
 
 
07 Dec 2011
 
Oil-for-food probe report to be released
DONEN COMMISSION
The presidency will release the Donen commission of inquiry report into the Iraq oil-for-food programme on Wednesday.
 
 
World cannot accept ‘no’ for an answer in Durban – UN chief
CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS
The business community has an important part to play in the fight against climate change, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon said at a press briefing on Tuesday evening. He supported...
 
 
06 Dec 2011
 
Development banks move to help cities fight climate change
CLIMATE FUNDING
Five multilateral development banks (MDBs), which loan some $8.4-billion a year for climate action in cities, agreed this week on a new partnership to better coordinate and deepen support to cities...
 
 
05 Dec 2011
 
WWF: Statement by the World Wildlife Fund, on COP17 climate talks (05/12/2011)
Statements

As the second week of the United Nations climate change talks starts, WWF Director General, Jim Leape, made the following statements on where the negotiations stand and where countries must...

 
 
SA: Dlamini-Zuma: Address by the Minister of Home Affairs, at the inter-Parliamentary union of COP17, Durban (05/12/2011)
2011
Due to many competing commitments for the Conference, my colleague Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has asked me to join you, our esteemed Members of Parliament, in your deliberations...
 
 
Mechanisms sought to offset incremental costs of SA’s renewables roll-out
GREEN FUNDING
The renewable energy targets outlined in South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2010 would add an average incremental cost of around $660-million to South Africa's yearly electricity bill...
 
 
$100bn climate fund ‘badly needed’ – World Bank economist
CLIMATE FINANCE
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is “badly needed”, World Bank lead economist and regional climate change coordinator Raffaello Cervigni said this week, as negotiations over setting up the fund,...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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