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EUROPARL CLIM 10Sep07

October 10, 2007 at 4:00 pm | Posted in Brussels, CLIM, Climate challenge, Climate change, Climate protection, Climate science, Committee, EU, EUROPARL, European Parliament, Innovations, Technologies, Thematic sessions | Leave a comment

Below my italicised introduction is an example of content provided to the first of six sessions this semester held by the European Parliament (EUROPARL) Temporary Committee on Climate Change (CLIM).

The Committee has its own website here.

Thematic Sessions are listed here and relevant meeting documents appear on this page, some time after an event. The three sessions listed so far are:

3. “The social and economic dimension, R & D, new technologies, transfer of technologies, innovation and incentives”
Monday, 19 November 2007, 3.00 – 6.30 pm Continue Reading EUROPARL CLIM 10Sep07…

Climate “deadlines are conditioned by the Earth’s response to human activity, not by humans”

October 9, 2007 at 10:16 am | Posted in Ashton, Climate change, Deadlines, EU, Grateful Dead, IPCC, MEPs, UN | 2 Comments

With the Kyoto limits on greenhouse gases due to expire in 2012, the debate on what should replace them came to Parliament’s Climate Change Committee on Thursday 4 October.

A panel of experts from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as representatives from the US, China and Japan set out their views on how to deal with the problem.

The UN experts told MEPs that to avert catastrophic climate change temperature increases must not rise by more than 2 degrees.

From last week’s European Parliament News, MEPs told “no rewind button ” on climate change ahead of post Kyoto talks.