A climate deal agreed to by South Africa in secret negotiations with the US and three other countries would doom Africa to a “holocaust”, according a top African climate negotiator.
Chief negotiator for the G77 group of poorer nations Lumumba Di-Aping said the agreement was “a solution based on the same very values, in our opinion, [...]
The chief climate negotiator for the developing world has accused members of the South African delegation in Copenhagen of working to “disrupt the unity” of the G77 bloc, which represents poorer countries at the current climate talks.
Sudanese-born Lumumba Di-Aping was speaking at an ad hoc meeting, attended by about 100 representative of African civil society [...]
The most keenly anticipated and heavily scrutinised climate change negotiations in history are taking place over the next two weeks in Copenhagen.
Delegates are under enormous pressure to reach fair, ambitious and binding targets to reduce greenhouse emissions and bring the carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million – the level science [...]
In an unprecedented show of editorial unity, more than 50 newspapers around the world, including in South Africa, are running the same urgent appeal to climate negotiators on the first day of the UN Conference on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen.
The Mail and Guardian, Cape Argus and Business Day have joined publications in 45 [...]