Greenhouse gas

Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency said on June 15.

Over 60 heads of state and government meet Wednesday in Brussels for the June 10-11 bi-annual summit in Brussels between the European Union and the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean States (CELAC).

Bulgaria will be represented by President Rosen Plevneliev at the 2-day summit.

BELGRADE - The Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection has made an estimate of possibilities for reducing emissions of greenhouse effect gases in the period up to 2030, Minister Snezana Bogosavljavic Boskovic said on Monday.

The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said Jan. 7.
     

Half of nearly $8 billion in climate finance given to the developing world since 2003 went to just ten countries, and nations most at risk got the short end of the stick, a report said Dec. 8.
      

Negotiators from more than 190 countries get together Dec. 1 in Lima for the last main stop of the U.N. climate negotiations on the road to a planned global warming deal in Paris next year.

The United States and China on Nov. 12 announced an action plan on greenhouse emissions as part of a "historic" pact that was acclaimed by climate scientists but denounced by US Republicans as a job-killer.
      

The UN climate summit in 2015 will fail unless the United States sets "a concrete and ambitious" goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned.
      

After 1989, Romania has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to less than half, Environment Minister and Vice President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Attila Korodi told the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York.

Romania plays an important role in what regards the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in southeastern Europe, said, on Thursday, Jian Xie, an expert on environment with the World Bank, during a specialist conference.