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15.12.2009
Japan to offer $10 bln to fight global warming: report
Japan will offer $10 billion in aid over three years to 2012 to help developing countries fight global warming, including steps to protect biodiversity, a Japanese newspaper said on Tuesday. Skip related content
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15.12.2009
Climate negotiators in race against time
COPENHAGEN—UN chief Ban Ki-moon heads to global climate talks on Tuesday warning that negotiators face a race against time to prevent the meeting ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout.
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10.12.2009
EU president commits to growth and environment
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - The European Union must boost economic growth and commit to fighting climate change to ensure the survival of its social model and of the planet, the new EU President Herman Van Rompuy said on Thursday.
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09.12.2009
Developing nations furious over Danish climate text
A leaked Danish proposal triggered outrage at Copenhagen climate talks, with developing nations condemning a draft deal that they argued would consign most of the world's poor to permanent penury. Skip related content.
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08.12.2009
Climate: 'Moving Toward Modest Cooperation'
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the climate crisis facing humanity.
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08.12.2009
Climate change already driving migration: IOM
GENEVA (AFP) – Climate change is already forcing people to migrate, with most moving within their countries or to a neighbouring country, a report by the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.
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07.12.2009
Leaders from 192 nations meet for climate summit
COPENHAGEN (AP) — The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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06.12.2009
Copenhagen Talks Tough on Climate Protest Plans
COPENHAGEN — At an abandoned beer warehouse in this city’s Valby district, law enforcement officials have constructed an elaborate holding facility with three dozen steel cages to accommodate more than 350 potential troublemakers during a United Nations climate conference that gets under way here on Monday.
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06.12.2009
Beyond Copenhagen
Nobody should expect a planet-saving agreement from the negotiations that begin this week in Copenhagen aimed at reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases. But the talks were in real danger of blowing up not long ago. Now there is a good chance for at least an interim deal, mainly because the United States and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, have promised to reduce or slow their emissions and their two leaders have agreed to attend.
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03.12.2009
The White House Convenes Young Green Leaders
WASHINGTON — As the Senate wades back into the climate debate, the White House is enlisting some of the young voters who helped usher President Obama into office to galvanize support for the climate and energy bill.
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02.12.2009
UN: US, China climate offers 'can still evolve'
GENEVA — The U.N.'s environment chief said Tuesday he is optimistic that the climate change talks beginning in Copenhagen next week will reach a deal setting firm targets to cut carbon emissions.
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02.12.2009
UN expects final climate change treaty by June
With less than a week until the United Nations climate talks, the United Nations' chief negotiator has denied suggestions the Copenhagen meeting will be a 'failure'. Instead, he is confident the conference will deliver an agreement, with ambitious targets from rich nations, and commitments to cut emissions growth by the developing world.
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