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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30.11.2010
U.S. Sees Progress In Easing Climate Row With China
Washington claimed progress in easing rifts with Beijing on ways to fight global warming on Monday as U.N. climate talks got under way in Mexico with warnings about the rising costs of inaction.
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29.11.2010
UN climate talks seek to bridge rich-poor divide
CANCUN, Mexico, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A new round of U.N. climate talks opens on Monday with almost 200 nations meeting in Mexico in hopes of clinching an agreement on a narrow range of crunch issues dividing rich and emerging economies.
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29.11.2010
Nations again try to bridge rich-poor climate gap
CANCUN, Mexico – World governments begin another attempt Monday to overcome the disconnect between rich and poor nations on fighting global warming, with evidence mounting that the Earth's climate already is changing in ways that will affect both sides of the wealth divide.
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29.11.2010
Climate change scientists warn of 4C global temperature rise
The hellish vision of a world warmed by 4C within a lifetime has been set out by an international team of scientists, who say the glacial progress of the global climate change talks that restart in Mexico today makes the so-called safe limit of 2C impossible to keep. A 4C rise in the planet's temperature would see severe droughts across the world and millions of migrants seeking refuge as their food supplies collapse.
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29.11.2010
U.N. climate talks "risk losing relevance" - EU
International climate talks risk "losing momentum and relevance" if they fail to achieve concrete progress in the next two weeks, the Europe Union's climate chief warned on Monday.
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29.11.2010
Time for compromise, troubled UN climate talks told
A new round of UN climate talks got under way on Monday to appeals for action and compromise after the squabbles that drove last year's global summit in Copenhagen close to disaster. Skip related content
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24.11.2010
EU to offer Kyoto compromise in Cancun
The EU will agree to a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, provided a number of reforms are made to the international agreement and it is accompanied by a parallel second treaty that covers those countries that currently have no legal obligations under Kyoto.
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23.11.2010
India can play key role at Cancun: US
"India had a very important role last year in Copenhagen, and I think India will have a very important role this year, particularly if we have a chance of getting anywhere," US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern told reporters Monday.
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23.11.2010
Global Impact Of EU 30 Pct Carbon Cut Small:IEA
New European Union proposals for a tough cut in carbon dioxide emissions would have only a limited impact on the global warming process, International Energy Agency chief economist told Reuters on Monday.
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