Poznan Fellows’ Featured Stories :

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  Brazil energy proposal said to contradict Poznan promises - 15/01/2009
  by Natalia Viana

  The Brazilian National Energy Plan for 2008-2017, recently published by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, did not please environmentalists and NGOs. The project aims at increasing the energy capacity from 99.7 thousand megawatts to 154.7 thousand megawatts. But environmentalists claim it (...)

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  A Horrendous Journey To COP-14 - And Back Again - 13/01/2009
  by Patrick K. Wrokpoh

  How two West African journalists faced every obstacle in travelling to the Poznan climate conference.

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  Small But Not Insignificant - 17/12/2008
  by John Mbaria

  During the just-concluded UNFCCC summit in Poznan, Poland, NGOs lobbied hard in favour of allowing farmers who have planted trees on their farms to sell the carbon their trees capture in the global carbon market. Agroforestry could curtail up to 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas (...)

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  We Have Overcome - 17/12/2008
  by Michael Simire

  After 12 days of intensive consultations, negotiators at the climate change conference in Poznan appear to have reached an agreement on the Adaptation Fund, which will see the freeing of millions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to severe droughts and other effects of climate (...)

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  The Bumpy Road To Copenhagen - 17/12/2008
  by Stevie Emilia

  Despite accusations of missed opportunities and ’climate hypocrisy’, the UN climate change conference in Polish city of Poznan concluded in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday with a commitment from governments to shift into full negotiating mode next year, in time to ink a historic pact in (...)

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  Climate summit finale saddest moment: Indian delegate - 17/12/2008
  by Joydeep Gupta

  Developing countries express disappointment in the face of “callousness, strategising and obfuscation” by their developed counterparts at the closure of the climate change summit in Poznan.

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  The Last Day And Little Progress - 17/12/2008
  by Joydeep Gupta

  Over 3,000 negotiators from 186 countries are going away from the Poznan summit without any substantial progress in fighting climate change.

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  Bye, bye Arctic ice - 17/12/2008
  by Joydeep Gupta

  New research shows that the risk of additional sea level rise from both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets may be larger than projected and could occur on century time scales.

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  Our footprint at the UN climate conference - 16/12/2008
  by Natalia Viana

  After the departure of the last delegations from Poland, where they attended the UN Conference on Climate Change, it is time to give a thought to what the event has left behind in the city of Poznan. After all, an event of such magnitude has huge impact on the environment. Coal-fuelled energy (...)

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  “We Can’t Negotiate The Facts." - 15/12/2008
  by Stevie Emilia

  Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore lent his charm and knowledge to UN climate talks in Poland, calling for strong commitments and action. Gore was speaking on the last day of the 2-week conference in the city of (...)

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