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12.12.2011
International Energy Agency welcomes climate pact
The world's global energy authority has welcomed the Durban road map for a new climate pact as a positive step towards avoiding catastrophic climate change but warned countries not to use to the talks as a reason to ease off on immediate action.
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11.12.2011
UN chief hails Durban climate roadmap
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday hailed what he called the "significant" breakthrough at UN climate talks that produced a roadmap towards an accord joining all major greenhouse-gas emitters.
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11.12.2011
Hope at last at the Durban conference on climate change
UN climate change conferences don't of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only government policies that incentivise and require business investment in low carbon technologies and other emission-reducing activities can.
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11.12.2011
Climate accord: 'Good but not good enough'
Though the UN's top climate-change official, Christiana Figueres, and South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister and COP17 president Maite Nkoana-Mashabane hailed the unexpected outcome of COP17 as a victory, environmental groups said the future of the planet was still at risk.
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09.12.2011
US signals support for EU's climate roadmap
DURBAN, South Africa - Head of the US delegation to the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework of Climate Change Conventions (UNFCCC) indicated on Thursday that Washington supports the European Union's roadmap unveiled at the meeting.
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09.12.2011
Support grows for Durban climate deal
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets by 2015, after poor nations vulnerable to climate change forged alliances with developed countries.
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08.12.2011
UN Climate Conference close to deal on Green Fund
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change.
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08.12.2011
Kyoto pact likely to be extended
Extension of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, is becoming more likely in spite of strong opposition from Japan, according to participants at the ministerial-level meeting of a UN climate conference in Durban.
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08.12.2011
Climate talks 'lacking urgency'
Lack of urgency in the Durban meeting halls and pressing issues elsewhere threaten to block progress as the UN climate summit enters its final days.
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08.12.2011
Big emerging nations call for Kyoto extension
As the world's heads of state arrive in Durban, South Africa, to begin the high-level segment of the United Nations climate negotiations, the largest emerging economies said they were united in wanting a legal agreement on the Kyoto Protocol.
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07.12.2011
You must lead world from abyss, urges Ban
The world is nearing a point of no return and only decision makers at the climate change conference in Durban "can bring us from the edge", United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said.
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07.12.2011
UN chief fears climate accord is ‘beyond reach’
Ban Ki-moon, secretary- general of the UN, has warned that “grave economic troubles” and political divisions meant a new global climate treaty may be “beyond our reach”, darkening the mood at international climate talks in South Africa.
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07.12.2011
"Big Three" polluters oppose binding climate deal
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - The world's three biggest polluters China, the United States and India refused to move towards a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions on Tuesday, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch a meaningful deal this week.
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07.12.2011
“Act while you still can” - Zuma
President Jacob Zuma and several world leaders delivered stirring speeches in Durban on Tuesday evening on the need to act quickly to “save the world” from climate change – despite clear signals that political negotiators will once again delay the solutions recommended by most climate scientists.
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06.12.2011
Climate talks: India dismisses reports of differences with China
Durban: India has dismissed talks of differences with other BASIC nations particularly China at the climate change talks in Durban. The BASIC group which comprimises Brazil, South Africa, India and China, has been negotiating with other countries to try and secure a second round of commitment from the Developed Nations under an extended Kyoto Protocol.
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05.12.2011
Durban climate talks: India gives guarded response to draft negotiating text
DURBAN: A 73-page draft negotiating text was issued at the end of the first week of climate talks in the South African city of Durban. The text, issued by the chair of the Bali track of the negotiations, is an "amalgamation" of draft texts and will provide the basis for the final document that will be considered by the Conference of Parties or the general assembly of the 193 countries and the European Union.
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05.12.2011
COP-17: Business takes bull by horns as leaders talk
Yvo de Boer warns that it’s crunch time for delegates attending the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under way in Durban — and the outcome is likely to be difficult
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05.12.2011
'Climate poker' set for Durban
Durban - UN climate talks on Monday enter their second week entangled in a thick mesh of issues with no guarantee that negotiators and their ministers will be able to sort them out.
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