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An EU research paper on the UN Millennium Development Goals, which has been presented in Brussels today, argues that the Goals are threatened by the challenges of high food and oil prices and global economic slowdown. The paper suggests that greater efforts are needed for more effective aid, investments in infrastructure to sustain growth, and that...

The latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations took place in Accra, Ghana, from 21-27 August. The Accra Climate Change Talks took forward work on a strengthened and effective international climate change deal under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as work on emission reduction rules and tools under the Kyoto Pr...

Car manufacturers only reduced their CO2 emissions by 1.7% over the past year – a far cry from the average 17% cut they will have to achieve within the next four years to comply with planned European legislation, according to data published today by Transport & Environment, a green NGO....

Latest news - the Commission is currently developing a new legislative proposal to reduce CO2 emissions from light commercial vehicles (vans and minibuses). This proposal is part of the Integrated Approach taken by the Commission in its revised strategy to reduce the CO2 emissions from cars and light commercial vehicles....

The second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) was held in Bonn, Germany, from 2 to 12 June 2008. At that session, Parties considered all the elements of decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan): a shared vision for long-term cooperative action; enhanced national/international action on ...

ABU DHABI // A recent surge in local businesses aiming to profit from curbing air pollution shows that Middle Eastern countries are “waking up to the potential economic benefits of carbon emission reduction”, the UN’s chief diplomat for climate change says. Yvo de Boer, the executive undersecretary of the UN Framework Conventio...

The European Commission, Member States and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat have successfully completed all the testing required for connecting to the UN's international carbon credit registry. The EU's Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL) and Member State registries will be connected to...

The Framework Agreement for cooperation between Turkey and the European Union for assistance under the Instrument for Pre-accession (IPA) was signed on 11 July 2008 by the Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Turkey, Ambassador Marc Pierini and the Secretary General for EU Affairs, Ambassador Oğuz Demiralp. The Framework Agreement...