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BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences: Meeting of the Parties ("MOP2") of the Kyoto Protocol a consortium of environmental groups have sponsored a league table of the heroes and zeros of global climate change. Germanwatch, an environmental and sustainability group focusing on North-South issues, compiled the data, (via Cosmos)
Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog: In the first of a week of daily podcasts with Guardian Unlimited, David Miliband, the environment secretary, explains to Deborah Summers what this week's UN climate change conference is all about, and tells us how much can really be achieved. Although the rising star of the cabinet has admitted that there is only a slim chance of a breakthrough in Nairobi, he hopes to inject fresh momentum into the stalled talks, which will (via Cosmos)
Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa: Brooks notes that the early civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia, China and northern South America were founded between 6000 and 4000 years ago when global climate changes, driven by natural fluctuations in the Earth's orbit, caused a weakening of monsoon systems resulting in increasingly arid conditions. These first large urban, state-level societies emerged because diminishing resources forced previously transient people into close proximity in areas where water, pasture and productive land was still available. (via Cosmos)
SusHI | Sustainability in Hawai`i: easier to stay current on the vitally important discussions underway in Nairobi, as the COPs converge on post-Kyoto agreements (via climate change action). Kenya is hosting the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2), in conjunction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 12). (via Cosmos)
Kenya Climate Talks: IPPR IPPR - PR UNEP Climate Action Network UN Climate Change Conference (via Cosmos)
PSD Blog - World Bank Group: UNEPFI, in partnership with the World Food Program and a reinsurance company, yesterday gave the conference a foretaste of its report on "Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change: The Role of the Finance Sector." The report advocates for the establishment of public-private partnerships to enable countries like Ethiopia - the first test case - to insure itself against drought induced by climate change. (via Cosmos)
[Politics.guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited Politics: Podcast : Speaking from UN climate conference, environment secretary David Miliband denies claims of a cabinet split. (6mins 10s)
[Publictechnology.net] e-Government & public sector IT news + job vacancies ...: Conservatives launch blog website for David Cameron The Conservative Party has launched Webcameron.org.uk, .Miliband to visit Kenya for green talks .
[Zimbio.com] Blog Search Tracker - Forest Ecology - Zimbio: She cited two examples of animals in China being saved from the brink of extinction: the Milu deer, which is about to be reintroduced into captivity after a rather extraordinary history where repeated attempts to breed up populations of the animal were thwarted by its being so very very tasty, and the crested ibis, a beautiful bird whose numbers had declined to seven birds in Shaanxi province by 1981, but which has now recovered to the point where about a thousand birds are alive. She also referred to successful desert reclamation in the Loess plateau, which I had not heard about before.
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