Today in front of the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, where currently the UNFCCC  Climate Change Talks Bonn June 2010 are taking place, Attac and BUND, the German branch of Friends of the Earth, symbolically stopped a coal truck driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German Minister of the Environment Norbert Röttgen. The aim [...]

Only two out of 10 developed countries’ reduction targets submitted to the Copenhagen Accord qualify as ’sufficient’ to keep global temperature rise below 2°C. The reduction targets of all countries currently associated with the Accord lead to a striking inconsistency with the 2°C goal defined in the very same Accord. [...]

Yesterday at a side event at the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Talks June 2010 Assistant Director of IATA Andreas Hardemann said in his presentation that within the next 6 to 9 months bio fuels will be certified for the use in aviation. This means technically bio fuels are ready for use in airplanes. The next [...]