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Ice-Blog – While Arctic melts, sweltering Germany hosts UN climate talks

9 May 201811 May 2018 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, Bonn, climate, climate change, COP21, COP24, emissions, environment, Germany, global warming, international, nature, Paris Agreement, Poland, politics, pollution, Science, sea ice, security, Svalbard, UN, UNFCCC, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations, weather

It’s been a scorcher of a week here in Bonn, Germany. Delegates to the UNFCCC climate talks (one of the interim meetings

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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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Ice-Blog: Translating COP21 from intent into action… is time running out?

24 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments #SB44, ACT, Arctic, Bonn, climate, Egyptian goose, emissions, energy transition, EU, fossil fuels, Greenland, Greenpeace, ice, Paris Agreement, Renewables, UN, UN talks, UNFCCC, Warming, weather

After all the hype surrounding the Paris Climate Agreement in December, there is a real danger of anti-climax, of feeling

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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Europe’s weird weather

12 May 201612 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments ADN, AMS, Arctic Frontiers, Bonn, climate, Duarte, emissions, Greenland, Guardian, ice, Independent, International Journal of Climatology, James Hansen, research, Rutgers, Science, sea ice, Sea level, tromso, UN talks, UNFCCC, Warming

As I write this, I am sitting in a short-sleeved shirt with the window open, enjoying an unusually warm start

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Ice-Blog: Climate talks at glacial place?

16 June 201416 April 2015 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Antarctic, Arctic, Bonn, China, climate, UN talks, USA

Who would have believed it? It has been a long time since the routine UN climate talks in Bonn aroused

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