Russia and China blocked efforts last Friday to have climate change recognised as an international security threat by the UN Security Council (UNSC).
In this interview, Dr. Hinrich Thölken, Head of Division "Climate and Environmental Foreign Policy, Sustainable Economy" at the German Federal Foreign Office, identifies needs and priorities for climate diplomacy in the coming years.
The European Union will freeze for a year its rule that all airlines must pay for their carbon emissions for flights into and out of EU airports, the EU executive said, following threats of international retaliation.
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson today emphasized the impact that climate change has on food security, peace and stability, and called on countries to cooperate to address this phenomenon.
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UNITED NATIONS, 9 May 2012 - Aline Jenckel interviews Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network.