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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
25.12.2009
China defends Wen Jiabao's role in Copenhagen talks
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday defended the role played by premier Wen Jiabao at climate change talks in Copenhagen this month after a barrage of international criticism blaming China for obstructing negotiations. |
23.12.2009
Copenhagen blame game not helpful: UN climate chief
LONDON — Countries should stop blaming each other for the weak outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks and sit down together to move the process forward, the UN's top climate change official said on Wednesday. |
21.12.2009
Summit Leaves Key Questions Unresolved
COPENHAGEN -- The global effort to combat climate change is stuck in essentially the same place after a massive United Nations summit that it was before the confab: with major emitters deadlocked over how much each of them should have to do to curb the rising output of greenhouse gases. |
21.12.2009
What did the Copenhagen climate summit achieve?
The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said "from chaos comes order".It is difficult to foresee the order that may result from the chaos of the Copenhagen climate change conference (COP15), but as the dust settles, traces of a path forward are becoming visible. |
15.12.2009
Copenhagen talks enter ‘new phase’
The Copenhagen climate talks have entered a ”new phase” as ministers join in intensive negotiations to deliver an agreement by the end of the week, the president of the meeting said on Tuesday. |
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