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09.12.2010
Cancun conference sets up new groups to speed up negotiation
The ongoing UN climate change conference has created two new groups of 50 nations on the forum's two key topics in a bid to speed up negotiating towards a binding deal, Mexico's Chief Negotiator Luis Alfonso de Alba told a press conference Wednesday.
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08.12.2010
U.N.'s Ban urges climate deal, short of perfect
Saying the health of the planet is at stake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged 190 nations meeting in Mexico on Tuesday to agree to steps to fight climate change that fall short of a perfect deal. Skip related content
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08.12.2010
Solving Kyoto row said key to unlock Cancun deal
CANCUN, MEXICO - Resolving a dispute between rich and poor nations over cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is key to unblocking progress on all issues at U.N. climate talks in Mexico, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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07.12.2010
Cancun - Why Kyoto still matters
Developing countries and some major emerging economies – chiefly China, but also including India and others – insist that the Kyoto treaty must continue beyond 2012, when most of its current provisions expire.
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07.12.2010
Big guns arrive at Cancun climate talks
The climate change meeting in Cancun is entering the high-level stage, with heads of state and environment ministers arriving in the holiday city.
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04.12.2010
Hope for Cancun climate talks
India hopes to be a "bridge player" and help break a deadlock between advanced and developing nations over how to fight climate change, the country's environment minister said Friday.
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03.12.2010
India to change climate stance, allow international scrutiny
NEW DELHI: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh looks set to make a bold deviation from the country's formal stance on climate change talks to suggest that developing countries should agree upfront to a detailed plan for international scrutiny of their mitigation actions without waiting for developed countries to reveal their hand.
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03.12.2010
EU lends China 500 mln euro to fight climate change
The European Union's financing arm, the European Investment Bank, said on Friday it had granted a 500 million euro loan to China to help it mitigate climate change through alternative energy investments.
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02.12.2010
US, China close in on accord on key climate issue
CANCUN, Mexico – The United States and China appeared close to agreement Wednesday on a key issue that has troubled climate change negotiations, boosting prospects that talks on global warming will score their first success in years.
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02.12.2010
Mexico pushes for deal at Cancun climate talks
Mexico is using its influence as host of the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, to push for a binding deal on carbon emissions among leaders gathered from around the globe.
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02.12.2010
Developing nations say Japan blocks climate talks
(Reuters) - Developing countries accused Japan on Wednesday of breaking a pledge to extend a U.N. pact for fighting global warming beyond 2012 and said that climate talks in Mexico would fail unless Tokyo backed down.
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01.12.2010
Mexican leader: Move on from climate blame game
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - Stuck in a blame game led by "big players" U.S. and China, the rest of the world should take on the climate crisis more aggressively "with or without them," says Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
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