Friends of the Earth (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The Major Economies Forum, hosted by Ed Miliband in London, has failed to break the current deadlock on climate negotiations, Friends of the Earth said today.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Major economies have further narrowed the differences on the solutions to climate change after they ended a two-day Major Economics Forum (MEF) here on Monday, though prospects for a new UN climate change pact still remained in the balance. They substantially agreed that significantly scaled up financing would be important, according to a communique released after the closing...
Friends of the Earth (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Friends of the Earth called on rich countries attending the Major Economies Forum to put new money on the table to help developing countries grow cleanly and adapt to climate change.
eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Oct 19: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) meeting in London on October 18-19, "In every era there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history -- because they change the course of history. Copenhagen must be such a time. There are now fewer than fifty days to set the course...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... that the U.S. makes as much progress as possible" at the two-day meeting of the Major Economies Forum. The Obama administration said it was tied to action by U.S. Congress, where climate bills were making their slow way toward legislation – an argument which cut little ice with other negotiators. "The rich countries of the Major Economies Forum...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... it was “important that the U.S. makes as much progress as possible” at the two-day meeting of the Major Economies Forum.The Obama administration said it was tied to action by U.S. Congress, where climate bills were making their slow way toward legislation – - an argument which cut little ice with other negotiators.“The rich countries of the Major Economies Forum...
Piers Akerman (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... us of his own imagined importance in global affairs, reciting: “As you know, I attended the Major Economies Forum in L’Aquila in July; I was recently at the G20 leaders’ meeting in Pittsburgh; and next week I will travel to the APEC leaders’ meeting in Singapore.’’ True believers may be impressed by this big-noting, but reality tells us Rudd is a small prawn in the big scheme...
Climate Change (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... ends nations agree are necessary. What’s been going on as part of the preparations for COP 15? The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF), for one thing, has been having a series of meetings all year. The MEF nations’ leaders met in Italy in July and made several declarations, among them that “Developing countries among us will promptly undertake actions whose projected...
connexions (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband MP will host a public rally tonight in East London, to give an update, and take questions, on the current state of negotiations in the lead to Copenhagen. The rally comes in the midst of a number of important meetings - such as the UK hosted Major Economies Forum, the EU Council [...]
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
by Geoffrey Lean British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has committed his politically battered government to sealing a climate deal in Copenhagen this year. Above, Brown speaks at the Major Economies Forum, held this past weekend in London. UK Dept. of Energy & Climate Change It certainly caught the eye. “The world’s future is being decided this weekend” ran...
Just Politics (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
From the “Isn’t That Special'” files we have more Liberal hype concerning saving the planet: Gordon Brown (England’s Prime Minister) said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”. He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas-emitting...
Bunzl's Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... analyses for what policies other countries would adopt are not consistent with the recent G8/Major Economies Forum goal discussed above. EPA has now analyzed, using the MiniCAM and MAGICC models, how U.S. targets consistent with the President’s FY 2010 budget proposal (14% below 2005 in 2020, and 83% below 2005 in 2050)22 combined with international action consistent...
RenewAmerica columns (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
(Chris Adamo) - It is difficult to determine the most telling harbinger of the collapse of Western Civilization, but the October 19 statement by Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister, must surely be among the worst. Speaking to the "Major Economies Forum" in London, Brown hysterically asserted that the world has "fewer than fifty days" in which to enact a drastic...
BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... and various roads to Copenhagen taking routes through all kinds of capital cities and all kinds of fora. So I thought it would be worth taking a little time at the end of each week as the potentially seminal UN summit approaches to take stock of what's happened and ponder where it might all lead. What caught the imagination of many commentators this week were comments from UN climate convention...
the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A grim apocalyptic vision of floods, droughts and killer heat waves has been conjured by the catastrophic flooding in Metro Manila, Central and Northern Luzon in the wake of Typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng.” At the Major Economies Forum in London, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a warning last Monday that the world has less than [...]
