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Daniela Chiaretti
Daniela Chiaretti is senior reporter on the environment for Valor Economico, the biggest financial newspaper in Brazil. She has been covering environment issues since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. In the last few years she has been travelling to the Amazon region and reporting local changes, writing stories about climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty reduction, energy, water and forestry. Daniela is also following the international negotiations on the new climate treaty. She attended CoP-14 in Poznan, Poland last December and has been to some of the UN preparatory meetings for Copenhagen.
Posts by Daniela Chiaretti
Rich countries signal with only short-term climate funds
No commentsAs UN talks move through their second week here in the Danish capital, the largest hurdle remains for achieving an international climate agreement : not enough money on the table.
»Progress in forest protection, but enough to make a difference?
No commentsAmidst the turmoil over reducing carbon pollution and how to pay for it, talks about forest protection seemed to have made the most progress by the end of the first week here at the UN climate summit.
»No “green protectionism” — Brazil
No commentsBrazil and the US are at loggerheads over the issue of climate change and protectionism here at UN talks in the Danish capital.
»Draft agreements appear, but content is sketchy
No comments“You can’t have a text that no one knows,” said a Brazilian diplomat. But that is exactly what is happening in UN talks here in the Danish capital.
»UN climate summit begins with emotion and a catastrophic note
Comments offIt was a dramatic start. A lone girl with a white stuffed teddy bear in hand, holding desperately to a tree trunk in a frightening flood. The UN climate summit here in the Danish capital kicked off this week with this creepy video.
»Climate talks start with insufficient proposals
No commentsThe largest conference on climate in history started this week in the Danish capital, with 20,000 people from 192 countries, huge expectations and high potential for stalemate.
»Many Battles, One Venue
No commentsThe 13-day UNFCCC summit in Poznan, Poland had many debates surrounding the main issues pertaining to CoP-14. Rajendra K. Pachauri, president of the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, told 40 journalists with the Climate Change Media Partnership to “Eat less meat”, and then, “I’m not saying that the world should become vegetarian. I’m just recommending that we eat less meat.” Pachauri explained the problems associated with meat production but did so without mentioning Brazil. At Poznan, 11,600 diplomats, scientists, environmentalists, businessmen, bureaucrats and journalists tried ‘to save the planet’ from the effects of climate change. Former US Vice President Al Gore gave a well-received speech.
»$2 billion for Brazil projects, including climate — World Bank
No commentsBrazil will receive USD 2 billion in loans from the World Bank, part of which is meant for climate change projects, a Bank official said during climate change talks in Poland. The final details of the loan are still under consideration, but will likely include money to fight deforestation in the Amazon and for disaster preparedness in the Northeast.
»Rich vs. Poor in UN climate talks
No commentsHigh-level UN climate talks in Poland began Thursday as a struggle between rich and poor. Industrialized countries were still far from agreement on setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and were at an impasse over money to help poor countries cope with climate change.
»Big businesses demand deep cuts in climate pollution
No commentsUN climate change talks in Poland were surprised this week by a call from 140 companies to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Sounding more like radical NGOs than businesses, the group of companies from several industrialized countries and China — including Shell and Unilever — demanded sharp and rapid cuts in emissions: 50 percent to 80 percent by 2050.
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