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09.08.2010
Bonn climate talks disappointing: RI
Indonesia voiced concern over the outcome of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, which seemed to move the world further away from a global treaty on emissions cuts targets in Cancun, Mexico, this year.
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08.08.2010
Analysis: Climate talks stumble from Page 1
BONN, Germany — The new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 2 1/2 years begins with a brief document called "A Shared Vision." The problem is, there isn't one.
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07.08.2010
World climate talks heat up
Environmental activists say climate talks in Bonn, Germany are not going well as the world prepares for it’s next big shot at a global climate deal.
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04.08.2010
Climate change on agenda
THE secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Neroni Tuiloma Slade, has advised Small Island State (SIS) leaders to not allow the disappointments of Copenhagen to divert their attention from the dangers of climate change.
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04.08.2010
Cancun Talks Will Not See Big Climate Deal - EU
A U.N. summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year will not result in a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the co-head of the European Union's climate delegation said in an interview on Tuesday.
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03.08.2010
Islands prepare to battle climate change
Small Pacific island nations say climate change is a matter of life and death, so their leaders have agreed to forge a unified voice on the issue ahead of a global summit later in the year.
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02.08.2010
Global warming not confirmed to have caused worldwide heat waves
Climate experts still can't be sure whether global warming has caused the excruciating heat waves which are currently grilling nations in the northern hemisphere such as China, Japan, the United States and Russia, and constantly refresh their power demand records.
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30.07.2010
US rejects claims of falsified climate science
US environmental regulators on Thursday rejected a series of challenges to the science behind climate change, reaffirming that global warming is real and the result of man-made pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling was welcomed by US climate groups and comes after a number of recent controversies over the workings of climate scientists provided fodder for sceptics around the world.
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30.07.2010
EPA Denies Challenges To Greenhouse Gas Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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27.07.2010
Developing Nations See Cancun Climate Deal Tough
Reaching a binding climate deal at the upcoming U.N. conference in Mexico will likely be difficult, delegates from a group of developing nations said on Monday, spurring further doubts about a global climate accord this year.
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26.07.2010
Beijing Fund Warns On Kyoto CO2 Offset Rule Changes
A Chinese government fund has told a U.N. panel it supports project developers which earn carbon offsets under a lucrative Kyoto Protocol scheme, and which rejects the idea that they are over-compensated.
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24.07.2010
US Senate deals blow to global climate talks
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout.
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24.07.2010
Latin America: Climate Change Swing States
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern traveled with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador last week, to discuss climate change with his government counterparts and civil society. Deepening bilateral and multilateral cooperation to increase economic growth, cutting greenhouse gasses, and helping climate-vulnerable populations were on the official program.
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22.07.2010
U.N. Lists Kyoto Plan B Options If No Climate Deal
The U.N.'s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight.
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21.07.2010
AU moves to deal with climate change
The African Union Commission is working on a strategy to enable African countries mitigate the devastating effects of climate change.
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