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COP17
The 17th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Durban, South Africa, represents the next step forward in government and business efforts to craft a global policy on reining in greenhouse gas emissions. GreenBiz.com will cover the conference extensively, with reports from the ground as well as coverage of the World Climate Summit and the second annual Gigaton Awards.
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- As the world works to make sense of what happened at COP17, it's time to start planning how to make the Rio+20 conference a truly world-changing event.
- As the UN's latest climate summit wraps up with still too little action taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change, businesses are likely to be the best hope for quick action on the scale the......
- With COP17 wrapped up after a marathon negotiation, now it's time to make sense of what went down in the final hours, and what it means for the global effort to minimize climate change....
- The agreement reached 36 hours after the summit was supposed to close is broadly welcomed, but business leaders warn there is a long way to go to deliver sufficiently ambitious climate treaty.
- As government officials wrangle final outcomes in Durban, business leaders have already moved on, anticipating the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in June....
- A standoff is continuing in Durban as diplomats prepare to extend summit into Saturday, while the three countries face intense pressure to sign on to an ambitious global climate deal.
- Even as the U.N. climate summit is underway, a discussion is happening in the United States about how women worldwide are disproportionately affected by climate change, and how they can be......
- Among the many gracious, insightful and charismatic leaders among the South African hosts of the latest UN climate summit, perhaps none has made a bigger impression than Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the......
- There are still many unresolved issues at the U.N. climate change conference in Durban, but the business community is seeing some signs of progress....
- Although it's not often discussed in the context of UN climate summits, there is a strong role that technology in the climate fight, which is why Microsoft has sent a delegation to each of the last......
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Gigaton Awards 2011
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The Carbon War Room raises the bar for its Gigaton Awards. We caught up with CEO Jigar Shah to find out why.
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A sneak peek at how the beverage giant became a finalist in the Carbon War Room's Gigaton Awards....
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The Carbon War Room's research director explains what it takes to win a Gigaton Award....
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A look at the climate change efforts of PG&E, a finalist in the 2011 Gigaton Awards....
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The second annual awards recognizing leaders in real-world greenhouse gas emissions reductions today announced the 18 firms that are in the running for this year's awards, to be announced at COP17 in South Africa on December 3....
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