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16.03.2010
EU backs UN climate report despite scepticism
Brussels - United Nations climate scientists attacked by sceptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support on Monday from European Union environment ministers.
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15.03.2010
Mexico urges rich states to deliver on climate aid pledges
Brussels - The European Union and other developed nations must deliver on climate aid pledges made to developing countries, the host of the next world summit on climate change in Cancun, Mexico, said on Monday. But the pledges might not be enough to win agreement on a binding international treaty at the Cancun talks in November, Mexico's Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada acknowledged.
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15.03.2010
Scientists warn of demise of Canadian climate research
MONTREAL — When government funding for a foundation dedicated to climate research dries up at the end of the year, scientists say the aftershocks of its departure will be felt not only in Canada but by researchers around the globe.
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15.03.2010
Climate report shows Australia getting warmer
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.
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11.03.2010
Stern backs $100bn IMF climate fund plan
A climate fund proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise $100 billion a year by 2020 has won support from climate change economics guru Nicholas Stern.
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11.03.2010
Scientists take another run at climate change
Eight Nobel-prize winning economists and scientists have joined more than 2,000 others in signing a letter today that urges the Senate to take swift action on climate change.
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11.03.2010
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll
A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.
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10.03.2010
EU comes up with exit strategy for climate talks
The EU's new commissioner for climate action wants Europe to continue leading global negotiations and pursue deeper emission cuts, even if the current pledge of 20% reductions by 2020 was not matched by other developed countries.
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10.03.2010
China, India give nod to climate deal
China joined India Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord which calls for voluntary limits on the greenhouse gas emissions.
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10.03.2010
West worries about Russia turning to coal
European efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions could be undermined by Russian plans to dramatically increase energy production from coal, Western experts said in Brussels yesterday (9 March).
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09.03.2010
U.S. Should Not Wait For China & India To Act On Climate- Change: EPA
A top U.S. environmental official says Washington should not wait for major pollutant countries, including India and China to act on climate-change, but should proceed with its environmental-protection measures by way of legislation, besides conducting research and organizing development.
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08.03.2010
IMF Suggests How To Raise Climate Change Funds
The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.
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05.03.2010
Lawmakers move to restrain EPA on climate change
As climate change legislation stalled in the Senate, the Obama administration noted that it had a workable -- although admittedly unwieldy -- Plan B. If Congress wouldn't cap U.S. emissions, officials said, the Environmental Protection Agency would do it instead.
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