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UN offers rescue targets for troubled climate summit in Copenhagen
New York - Faced with prospects of failure in Copenhagen's climate change summit next month, the United Nations on Thursday cited key targets that could improve the chance of success in the talks on reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Climate change, poverty highlighted at development talks
Stockholm - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Thursday called nations to put national interests aside in order to secure a global deal on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Reinfeldt was one of the keynote speakers at the European Dev...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit - Summary
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early stages of a major United Nations summit aimed at curtailing global climate change, the White House said Wednesday. The Obama administration also proposed cutting its domest...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early stages of a major UN summit on climate change, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing an administration official. Obama will be in Copenhagen on December 9, the day befo...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit - Update
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early stages of a major UN summit on climate change, the White House said Wednesday. The Obama administration also proposed cutting its domestic emissions 17 per cent below 2005 ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit - 2nd Update
Washington - US President Barack Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early stages of a major UN summit on climate change, the White House said Wednesday. The Obama administration also proposed cutting its domestic emissions 17 per cent below 2005 ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

BACKGROUND:The EU's (partial)recipe for Copenhagen
Luxembourg - These are the main points which European Union environment ministers think should be covered by a deal on fighting climate change in Copenhagen in December:TARGETS: global warming should be limited to 2 degrees centigrade above pre-indus...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU shelves 150-billion-dollar row to set out climate stall - Summary
Luxembourg - European Union environment ministers on Wednesday shelved a bitter dispute over roughly 150 billion dollars' worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits to begin setting out the bloc's demands for a global climate-change deal in December. ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

US does not expect binding climate deal in Copenhagen
Barcelona - December's Copenhagen climate conference will produce a real but probably not binding agreement, a US climate change negotiator said Thursday. Jonathan Pershing made the comments in Barcelona, Spain, where UN climate negotiators are try...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

UN: Developed countries need to cut gas emissions by 25-40 per cent
Athens - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per cent in an address to the Greek parliament Thursday. With just over a month remaining before a key UN climate change conference in...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EXTRA:EU approves watered-down proposals on climate change
Luxembourg - European Union environment ministers on Wednesday agreed a watered-down negotiating position ahead of international talks on fighting climate change by putting off a key debate on billions of euros in emissions permits, diplomats said. T...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Technology and its diffusion key to meeting climate change: Singh
New Delhi - Appropriate and effective technology solutions were the key to helping developing countries meet the challenge of climate change, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday. Singh was speaking at at an international conference on ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

PREVIEW: EU limps towards difficult summit
Brussels - The European Union's 27 leaders head for a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday with two of their most cherished projects - institutional reform and climate change - in disarr...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Singapore to cut emissions if other countries do their bit
Singapore - Singapore is prepared to cut carbon emissions going into the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, but only if other countries do their bit as well, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a speech late Friday. O...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU's commitment to climate change thrown into question - Summary
Luxembourg - The European Union's commitment to fighting climate change was thrown into question Tuesday when the bloc's finance ministers failed to reach a deal on how to help developing nation...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EXTRA: EU finance ministers fail to reach deal on climate funding
Luxembourg - European Union finance ministers failed Tuesday to reach a deal on how to pay for climate change action in the developing world, diplomats said. Marathon talks in Luxembourg ended without an agreement, with the discussions now set to res...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU baits the Copenhagen hook - Feature
Brussels - The European Union has baited its hook. On Friday, for the first time, the leaders of the world's biggest economic bloc agreed a figure on how much money the developed world should offer developing states to fight climate change. ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU agrees climate change funding offer - Summary
Brussels - European Union leaders reached a compromise Friday on how much money to offer developing countries to help them fight climate change. The agreement, reached at a summit in Brussels, was viewed by participants as a milesto...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Obama officials take climate case before skeptical Senate
Washington - The Senate's debate on climate change legislation shifted into high gear on Tuesday as President Barack Obama's administration took its case for action before the chamber's environment committee. Cabinet members from the departments of e...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU agrees climate-change funding compromise
Brussels - European Union leaders on Friday reached a compromise on how much money to offer developing countries to fight climate change, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said at the EU summit in Brussels. However, leaders put off a discussion...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta named Asia's climate change hotspots
Hong Kong - Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta on Thursday were named the Asian cities most vulnerable to climate change in a survey by the environmental pressure group the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The study, timed to coincide with the weekend openin...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

EXTRA: Merkel calls on US, Europe to tackle climate change
Washington - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the United States and Europe to take a leadership role in the world's effort to combat climate change, saying the trans-Atlantic partners must set an example for emerging economic powers. There is n...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

Obama, Merkel meet to discuss Afghanistan, climate change
Washington - US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Tuesday to discuss the war in Afghanistan and ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate change pact. Merkel met with Obama for the first time since her re-e...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Not much expected from Copenhagen, Indian environment minister says
New Delhi - Not much was expected from the climate change summit in Copenhagen except for a mandate to continue negotiations, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday. We need to be proactive, aggressive and ruthless in our domestic o...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Environment ]

EU-Russia summit stresses unity on trade and climate - Summary
Stockholm - Russia and the European Union stressed their unity and steered away from open disputes at a summit in Stockholm on Wednesday as they sought each other's backing on issues of trade and climate change. The EU is keen to enlist Russian suppo...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]



 
 

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