Stories Archive: July, 2013

New industry-led, voluntary program to measure and report GHG Emissions

On July 16, 2013 the World Bank agreed to support universal access to reliable modern energy and limit the financing of coal-fired power plants to rare circumstances in an effort to address climate change concerns.

STATEMENT: Company Concession Data Cannot Be Kept Secret

Ministers of Environment from five ASEAN countries - Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand – held the 15th Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) on Transboun

STATEMENT: U.S.-China Action on Climate Change "Essential"

At the opening of the 2013 Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the United States and China announced agreement to five new “action initiatives” for collaboration on addressing climate change.