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Bonn: new efforts announced at UN climate conference to push for further, faster climate action
Cities, the transport sector and ocean advocates today announced a number of new initiatives to push for further, faster climate action, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany.
UN Climate Change Conference 2017 Aims for Further, Faster Ambition Together
The 2017 UN Climate Change Conference opens on Monday, with the aim of launching nations towards the next level of ambition needed to tackle global warming and put the world on a safer and more prosperous development path.
The 11th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2017 finished in Moscow
On October 18, after two-day theoretical and practical classes on Russian experience in energy management, fellows were invited to participate in the 5th Annual Forum “Open Innovations”. The Forum is a global discussion platform that is dedicated to emerging technologies and furthering innovation prospects and collaboration worldwide.
Top 250 firms emit third of CO2; few have strong goals to cut: study
The world’s 250 biggest listed companies account for a third of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions yet few have strong goals to limit rising temperatures, a study showed on Tuesday. Coal India, Gazprom and Exxon Mobil topped the list when measuring carbon dioxide emitted by companies and by consumers using their products, it said.
The results of the first half of the 11th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme
During the second week of the UNESCO/ISEDC Сo-Sponsored Fellowships Programme fellows studied the course related to municipal and industrial energy management. ISEDC partners became the lecturers of the course in the framework of the Programme, namely leading experts of UNDP-GEF Project “Building energy efficiency in the North-West of Russia”, Mr. Vitaly Bekker and Mr. Andrey Dodonov.
