Climate change

Bulgaria's performance in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2015 was ranked as "poor".

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Half of nearly $8 billion in climate finance given to the developing world since 2003 went to just ten countries, and nations most at risk got the short end of the stick, a report said Dec. 8.
      

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Dec. 4 he will travel to the climate conference in Peru next week and is hopeful that delegates will draft an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the U.N. weather agency on Dec. 4 rejected claims that global warming has paused.

The World Meteorological Organization said the global average temperature in January-October was 0.57 Celsius (1.03 Fahrenheit) above average, the same as in record hot year 2010.

Climate change could undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe, the World Bank warned Nov. 23.

In a new report on the impact of global warming, the bank said sharp temperature rises would cut deeply into crop yields and water supplies in many areas and possibly set back efforts to bring populations out of poverty.

The UN climate summit in 2015 will fail unless the United States sets "a concrete and ambitious" goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned.
      

European Union leaders agreed Oct. 24 what they hailed as the world's most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global treaty next year.
      
The 28 leaders overcame deep divisions at a summit in Brussels to reach a deal including a commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent compared to 1990 levels.
      

From the very beginning, Turkey has had a very problematic relationship with climate change talks.

From the very beginning, Turkey has had a very problematic relationship with climate change talks.

After 1989, Romania has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to less than half, Environment Minister and Vice President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Attila Korodi told the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York.