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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, brings world leaders in government, business and NGOs to try to shape a path forward on climate change.
GreenBiz.com is pleased to present a number of reports from the summit, as well as exclusive coverage of the second annual Gigaton Awards, recognizing business contributions to greenhouse gas reductions.
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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.
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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,......
Public and private sectors working to find solutions to climate change gathered at the World Climate Summit....
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......
With Africa likely to face the first and most severe impacts from climate-related water shortages, it's fitting to raise the issue at COP17. But research shows neither businesses nor governments......
For the first time ever, the private sector may have a place in the negotiating text at the UN climate talks taking place in Durban, South Africa....
As the second half of the UN climate summit gets underway, there's an elevated sense of urgency among the delegates. But until the dust settles, we won't be able to tell just how much progress --...
New data suggests worldwide emissions surged in 2010 following a small dip during the economic downturn. The news comes as world leaders attempt to find common ground on the fate of the Kyoto......
A new report released at COP17 finds that four US Banks -- JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley -- are the top funders of coal-fired power plant projects around the globe....
The still-unproven carbon capture and storage technology is one of the most controversial topics among the business community at COP17. Will the ability to sequester emissions from fossil fuels......
This weekend, about 600 global executives gathered for an industry-focused side event to the UN's COP17 negotiations. here are some of the top-level takeaways....
A study released at COP17 found, unsurprisingly, that the US has the largest share of climate skeptics, followed closely by the UK. Those two countries also have the dubious honor of devoting the......
The six companies were recognized during the World Climate Summit at COP17 for their successes in making world-changing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions....
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