Countries adopt climate data sharing agreement

October 4th, 2009 ISTANBUL - Climate change could depress the economic output of Africa and South Asia by as much as five percent per year, the World Bank warned Sunday. The effects of a warming of the Earth's temperature by even two degrees Celsius could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up to two billion lacking enough water resources.

October 2nd, 2009 Mesa, Ariz., is 1,000th signer for climate changeSEATTLE — Mesa, Ariz., is the 1,000th city to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors' climate change agreement.

September 26th, 2009 Climate activists in Copenhagen protest coal useCOPENHAGEN — Hundreds of climate activists protested Saturday against the use of fossil fuels, but were blocked from entering a coal-firing plant they had hoped to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts. Police held back the 1,500 or so protesters from entering the coal- and oil-fueled Amagervaerket power station on Copenhagen's Amager Island, police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says developed nations would need to provide funding and affordable technology to developing nations in return for any commitments to fight climate change. "There is a broad, vague agreement that any agreement in which developing countries are also required to take any national action will have to be accompanied by credible action on the part of developed countries," he said at a post G-20 summit news conference Friday.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama Tuesday promised a serious US effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change and called on all major polluters to make concessions to reach a new global climate treaty. In a speech at the start of a one-day climate summit at UN headquarters in New York, Obama acknowledged the US has been slow to respond to global warming in the past.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, whose country is a pioneer in promoting green technologies, Friday virtually endorsed India's stand on climate change but hoped that all countries will come to an agreement by the year-end. "The Indian approach is very ambitious.

September 2nd, 2009 US wants to fill need for climate forecastsGENEVA — The global need to cope with climate change is fueling a desire to make climate forecasts as common as weather forecasts, U.S. officials attending a U.N.

August 19th, 2009 ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national carrier Etihad Airways has signed a code sharing agreement with the American Airlines that will benefit travellers from the region, WAM news agency reported Wednesday. The new agreement will come into effect this week.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Seeking to underplay differences with India over climate change, the US says it is "encouraging" that both countries are committed to do whatever they can to reach an agreement on a new UN climate treaty at Copenhagen. "Well, I don't think so," Philip J.

July 15th, 2009 EU teams up with MTV on climate changeBRUSSELS — The European Union is teaming up with music channel MTV to raise awareness among teens about the dangers of climate change. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas says today's youth "will bear the brunt" of climate change, including rising temperatures and sea-levels.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Developed countries comprising the G8 are unwilling to commit themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions drastically by 2020, despite scientists across the world and developing countries urging them to do so. With the issue of climate change becoming significant during the G8-G5 summit here, especially in the run-up to the UN climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen this December, emerging economies of the G5 are exerting pressure on the G8 to commit to earlier targets on reducing emissions.

July 2nd, 2009 EU: China, India must make emissions cutsSTOCKHOLM — The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday. Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.

June 12th, 2009 BONN - Climate negotiators from the Obama administration will be in New Delhi to hold bilateral talks on what India is ready to do to tackle global warming, the leader of the US delegation to a UN conclave said here Friday. Jonathan Pershing, who led the US delegation at these preparatory talks of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the December summit in Copenhagen, said he had met the leader of the Indian delegation Shyam Saran on the sidelines of the talks here.

June 8th, 2009 BONN - The world needs clarity on the extent industrialised countries are going to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) that are changing the climate and what "nationally appropriate mitigation action" large developing countries like India will take, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said here Monday. Speaking at the mid-point of a June 1-12 conference to prepare for this December's summit in Copenhagen where a climate agreement is scheduled to be inked, de Boer said negotiators from 182 countries gathered here should also provide clarity on "how to generate support for mitigation and adaptation (to climate change) in developing countries" through financing from industrialised countries.

May 29th, 2009 Climate change causes 300,000 deaths a yearLONDON — A think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says that around 300,000 people die each year from disasters related to climate change.