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 evening Yvo de Boer said good bye to the UNFCCC Climate Change Talks community at a reception in Bonn. The Mayor of Bonn Jürgen Nimptsch thanked him for the importance he gave Bonn by establishing the UNFCCC as a respected body in the world. At the same time the successor in the office of [...]