The Climate Group launched LightSavers in 2009, supported by the HSBC Climate Partnership, with the goal to accelerate the market adoption of outdoor LED lighting and smart-lighting controls.
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"HSBC's decision sets a new benchmark for the financial services sector, " said Steve Howard, chief executive of The Climate Group, a non-profit coalition of organisations committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, of which HSBC is a member.
And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, the Working Group I report, which deals with the science of climate change, that will be finalized in an intergovernmental meeting which will finish on the first of February.
Chicago and New York are just two of the ten American cities the others are Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle who are members of the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group (mercifully renamed the C40), which now comprises 58 cities around the world.
The framework from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group would allow for a common standard that could be used by cities all over the world as they try to figure out what actions to prioritize in trying to mitigate climate change, Bloomberg said in introducing the commitment.
We can only imagine the uproar if a group of climate scientists had claimed the Bush Administration misappropriated their views.
At one end, Thomas Stocker, current co-chair of the IPCC working group on climate science, contended that little was wrong with the existing basic model.
Despite the attempt by some environmentalists to paint the U.S. Chamber as an anti-science climate denier, the business group has acknowledged the reality of greenhouse gas emissions and the need for a coordinated response.
Another poll by the Climate Institute, a lobby group, found support for Mr Rudd in dealing with climate change had dropped by ten points from February last year, to 36% this month.
Kim Carstensen, director of the global climate initiative with environment group WWF, said that much more movement was needed on the Kyoto Protocol negotiations here.
The BBC confirmed that the claim came from a 2006 paper by the Working Group on Climate Change.
In spite of the obstinacy of some in APS management, APS members of good will are supporting the establishment of a politics-free, climate physics study group within the Society.
Meteorologist Lord (Julian) Hunt, who chaired the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, clarified that an abrupt methane release from the current warming was not inevitable, describing that as "an issue for scientific debate".
So what's happened since last week's post, flagging up and analysing the contents of documents obtained through subterfuge from the leading US climate sceptic lobby group?
The scientists are members of a global scientific group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He's an oceanographer and chairman of a group called the Artic Climate Impact Assessment.
The Berkeley group does depart from the "orthodox" picture of climate science in its depiction of short-term variability in the global temperature.
Sir, Andrew Motion (report, Feb 23) is correct to castigate climate change deniers, but he is profoundly mistaken in linking all those who oppose the current climate science orthodoxy into one group.
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Joanna Nathan, an analyst for the International Crisis Group, says that can't happen in the current climate.
In 2005 it hosted the first World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, a meeting which paved the way for the creation of the C40 -- a group of large cities committed to tackling climate change that includes members as diverse as New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Jakarta.
The clean skies tax might even break the rules of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International aviation agreements, according to many nations in the group who are scrambling to find clauses in bilateral agreements and international trade laws that would force Europe to end the carbon tax.
White House aides said the president's working group on global climate change is continuing to look for ways to reduce global warming.
Bruce Campbell is programme director of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research group ( CCAFS) which co-ordinates work among leading institutions around the world.
By now, you are probably wondering: What does all this have to do with the scientific work of a small group of climate modelers who have successfully convinced millions of people that runaway global warming is such a grave threat that the entire global economy needs to be turned upside down right now in order to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions?
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Over the past year, the AfDB has engaged extensively in international discussions, such as the World Water Forum, COPs of the UNFCCC , Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum, Africa Carbon Forum, and providing support for the African Group of Negotiators in the UN processes.
The group discussed everything from the IPad to climate change to government regulations.
"I think unfortunately, 2012 really may well be the new normal, " said Daniel Lashof, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.
While there are ongoing failures in the community bank space, it has become very clear that the climate and environment for those institutions has strengthened, and in fact fourth-quarter earnings for the group have improved.
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As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
Even more commendably, the IAC recognized the incestuous group-think involved in producing the IPCC reports and recommended that more scientists from outside the climate change establishment be inducted in various stages of the report-writing process.
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