Ban Ki-moon – Eye on the Arctic

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Blog – South Korea, an unlikely polar pioneer, hosts Arctic conference

11 December 201814 December 2018 Mia Bennett 0 Comments Arctic Circle, Asia, Ban Ki-moon, China, climate change, COP24, icebreakers, Japan, korea, LNG, Northern Sea Route, Seoul, shipping, ships

Over the weekend, as the temperature in Seoul plunged to -12°C, Koreans bundled up in the long puffy black parkas

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Ice-Blog: Can we halt Arctic melt? Hard question for UN advisor

8 July 20168 July 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, Avery, Ban Ki-moon, Bonn, climate, emissions, ocean, ocean acidification, Science, Sea level, UN, Universität Bonn, Warming, Woodshole

I had a very interesting high-profile visitor here at Deutsche Welle this week. Bonn, John Le Carré’s “Small Town in

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US icon sinking in melting ice? The photo was taken in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Svalbard the 7th of September 2014. (Christian Auslund / Greenpeace)

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Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda

24 September 201416 April 2015 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, Ban Ki-moon, climate, CO2, emissions, Greenpeace, ice, indigenous, New York, sea ice, Sea level, UN, UN talks, WWF

To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for

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Ice-Blog: UN Climate Chief on New York summit

22 September 201416 April 2015 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, Ban Ki-moon, Christiana Figueres, climate, emissions, New York Climate Summit, Renewables, UN talks, UNFCCC, USA, Warming

Your Ice Blogger has been busy with the New York climate summit around the corner. I was delighted to read

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Jens Stoltenberg at OECD headquarters in Paris on May 29, 2013 while serving as Norway's Prime Minister. (Eric Piermont)

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UN names Norway’s ex-PM and Ghana’s ex-president as climate envoys

23 December 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, John Kufuor

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ghana’s former president John Kufuor and Norway’s former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg to help

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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was in London yesterday responding to a European Union fuel directive that paints Alberta's oilsands bitumen as much more highly polluting than conventional sources. Oliver says the oilsands represent 0.1 per cent of global emissions. (from CBC.ca)

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Canada’s climate change stance ‘de-motivating’ say critics

20 November 2013 The Canadian Press 0 Comments Ban Ki-moon, United Nations, Warsaw

Anyone wondering why Canada, with its minuscule global carbon footprint, attracts so much international ire from environmentalists these days should

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