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22.03.2010
China furthers low carbon efforts after Copenhagen
For a great part, the Copenhagen summit was a very important platform for the world to go forward where China played a big role in putting it together, according to Nicholars Stern, world's top climate economist.
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19.03.2010
EU climate chief urges U.S. to act
The European Union's point woman on global warming Thursday pressed the U.S. government to step up its efforts to forge an international climate deal, arguing that both the EU and the U.S. will reap benefits from an accord.
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18.03.2010
Kyoto protocol's substitute unlikely by Mexico conference
Moscow: A new legally binding document that would replace the Kyoto Protocol is unlikely to be ready by the next UN conference on climate change in Mexico, Russia's presidential envoy on climate-related matters said.
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18.03.2010
EU Climate Envoy: White House Hopes For Climate Bill Waning
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Hopes for a U.S. climate bill this year are waning and withering expectations are likely to adversely affect international negotiations, E.U. climate envoy Connie Hedegaard said Thursday after meeting the day before with senior administration officials.
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17.03.2010
Carlgren: Mexico Climate Talks Will Fail
The failures of last year’s climate meeting in Copenhagen are casting a long shadow on the coming international UN conference in Mexico at the end of the year. After meeting his EU colleagues on Monday, Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren is doubtful that the international UN group can agree on a deal to cut emissions of carbon dioxide.
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17.03.2010
Africans 'take blame for climate change'
Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests.
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16.03.2010
Race for climate top job hots up
New Delhi: The race for the UN’s top climate change job is set to get more intense with the number of candidates in the fray increasing. After India and South Africa nominated candidates, Indonesia and Costa Rica too made known their ambitions for the post of UNFCCC executive secretary.
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16.03.2010
EU calls for urgent action to fight climate change
BRUSSELS, (KUNA) -- Environment ministers from the 27 member EU, meeting here Monday, underlined that the Copenhagen Accord requires urgent action on adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change.
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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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