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Talks next week in Bonn to set stage for future action on climate change – UN official

12 May 2006
Aiming to advance international efforts on climate change, representatives of governments from across the globe will gather in Bonn next week under United Nations auspices to discuss new proposals, including a significant increase in the levels of emission reductions required under the Kyoto Protocol, a senior official dealing with the issue said today.
Commission on Sustainable Development

Poor will feel greatest impact of climate change, scientist tells UN commission

4 May 2006
Changes in weather patterns and extreme weather events due to climate change will have the greatest impact on the world's poorest people, the head of the leading scientific panel on the issue told the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in New York today.

Urgent action needed to bring clean energy to poor areas – UN report

11 April 2006
Despite some progress in controlling atmospheric pollutants such as lead, ozone-depleting substances and some greenhouse gasses, urgent action is needed to provide clean energy to reduce poverty, promote development and tackle climate change, according to a United Nations report released today.
Forests store CO<sup>2</sup> helping alleviate climate change

Better forest management has key role in dealing with climate change: UN agency

27 March 2006
Not only do forests absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, thereby mitigating the effects of climate change, but using wood from a sustainably-managed forest as fuel instead of oil, coal and natural gas, can also reduce global warming, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, calling for better forest management.

Annan short-lists candidates selected for top UN post monitoring climate change

16 March 2006
Five candidates put forward by United Nations Member States for the post of Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been short-listed for interview, following a thorough review of all nominees by Secretary General Kofi Annan and his senior advisers, a UN spokesman said today.

Compliance body set up for Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gases

3 March 2006
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said today that a Compliance Committee for the Kyoto Protocol, the environmental treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, has begun operations, with an enforcement branch dealing with countries having difficulties meeting their commitments.
Richard Kinley

UN official urges Kyoto signatories to maintain momentum in cutting emissions

14 February 2006
A top official of the United Nations body monitoring climate change called on the dozens of industrialized nations that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gasses to sustain their momentum as they move toward legally binding targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2012.
Kofi Annan

Annan urges action on climate change as he accepts environmental award in Dubai

6 February 2006
s he accepted a top global award in Dubai for his work with the environment, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged world leaders to use the United Nations-backed Kyoto Protocol to move on climate change and called for governments, businesses and citizens to adopt a new mindset on energy resources.

UN-backed project helps cut carbon emissions in Eastern Europe

3 February 2006
Eastern European countries, which disproportionately produce greenhouse gas emissions , have taken a small but very significant step in tackling the problem thanks to a United Nations-backed project, a new report released today says.

UN conference agrees on future steps to tackle climate change

10 December 2005
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal concluded today with the adoption of more than forty decisions that will strengthen global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.