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Archive | January, 2014

Green Politics, International politics January 31, 2014

Climate Action Network to US: Stop spying, start listening!

The world’s largest network of NGOs working on climate change, Climate Action Network (CAN), today called on the United States and other governments accused of spying on climate negotiators during the Copenhagen summit in 2009, to publicly renounce such underhanded tactics. CAN condemns such actions. The work currently underway to secure a comprehensive, global plan […]

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Mountains January 17, 2014

UN highlights need to include mountains in global development agenda

Mountain countries and organizations urged the UN on 8 January 2014 in New York, USA, to include mountains in the Post-2015 development agenda as they are ‘vital to sustainable development’. Speaking at a side event of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), diplomats from Argentina, Italy, Kyrgyzstan and […]

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Green Finance January 15, 2014

Climate Awareness Bond to a record EUR 1.5bn

European Investment Bank („EIB‟) re-opened the EUR green bond market with the first transaction of the year, a EUR 350m tap of the Climate Awareness Bond (CAB) due 15 November 2019. Total size after the increase is a record EUR 1.5bn, which makes this issue the largest climate-themed bond outstanding in any currency. The transaction […]

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International politics January 14, 2014

UNFCCC Releases ADP Warsaw Report

The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) on the third part of its second session (FCCC/ADP/2013/3). The report summarizes the discussions held during the meeting, as well as the conclusions adopted. During the session, which was held from 12-23 November 2013, […]

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