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UNFCCC meeting agrees to draft new agreement by 2015

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Global
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February 24 2012

After two weeks of negotiations on climate change, negotiators have agreed to draft a legally binding global agreement by 2015

Cancún discussions revive hope for new climate change agreement

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Global
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January 20 2011

Although the latest round of international climate change talks in Mexico failed to reach consensus on an international agreement on climate change, it did deliver hope that an international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol may still be achieved

Biodiversity protection targets agreed

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Global
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November 18 2010

The tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which took place in Nagoya, Japan, has been heralded a success, with the close of the conference seeing key agreements on biodiversity protection being reached

IPCC for biodiversity approved

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Global
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July 16 2010

The international community has recently given its approval to form a global science policy panel on biodiversity and ecosystem services

UN reports attempt to price environmental impact

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Global
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March 12 2010

Two United Nations (UN)-commissioned reports that attempt to put a cost on pollution and other damage to the natural environment are due to be published this summer

Copenhagen Accord

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Global
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February 11 2010

As had been widely anticipated, the recent United Nations (UN) talks in Copenhagen did not result in a binding global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen?

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Global
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December 14 2009

The claims of over two years of international discussions and negotiations on the successor to the Kyoto Protocol will shortly culminate in the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen

Water disclosure project launched

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Global
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December 14 2009

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has recently launched a new water disclosure project that will enable institutional investors to evaluate companies' exposure to water shortages

PRTR protocol comes into force

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Global
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October 30 2009

Following its ratification by France, an international protocol on the recording and reporting of 86 polluting emissions from industrial facilities came into force earlier this month