Stay with Kyoto protocol, urges UN climate chiefOctober 7th, 2009 BANGKOK - "When I have only one pair of shoes, it makes sense to stay with that pair." With these words, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer Wednesday came out clearly in favour of retaining the Kyoto Protocol to tackle global warming, despite strong efforts by many industrialised countries to dump it. The issue has become the main point of contention in the Sep 28-Oct 9 talks here in preparation for the climate summit in Copenhagen this December.
Gore, Mexican president discuss importance of breaking deadlock over climate change treatySeptember 30th, 2009 Gore discusses climate impasse with Mexican leaderMEXICO CITY — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has met with Mexico's president to discuss the importance of breaking an impasse over a new global warming pact.
EU says 'decisive progress' needed at climate talks in BangkokSeptember 25th, 2009 EU calls for urgency at climate talks in BangkokSTOCKHOLM — The European Union is urging wealthy and developing countries to bring more "urgency and ambition" to climate talks in Thailand next week. The Bangkok meeting starting Monday is the penultimate negotiating session before a pivotal U.N.
Obama puts climate on top of diplomatic agenda with India, ChinaSeptember 22nd, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Warning that the global economic recession could hinder the ability of countries to take necessary steps to combat climate change, President Barack Obama Tuesday told world leaders "we are determined to act". "The journey is hard.
Obama commits US to curbing climate changeSeptember 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.
Britain's Brown says world leaders must attend Copenhagen summit to strike climate pactSeptember 21st, 2009 UK's Brown wants summit for climate change pactLONDON — World leaders need to attend a key climate change summit in Copenhagen to avert the "grave danger" that nations will fail to agree a new global pact tackling climate change, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared Monday. In an article for Newsweek magazine, Brown said he will attend the talks in Copenhagen on Dec.
US says differences in global climate talks narrowingSeptember 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States' top climate official said there had been a "narrowing of differences" after a meeting of the world's 17 top polluters that are critical to reaching any international deal on curbing climate change. Todd Stern, the US State Department's envoy on climate change, said Friday some "concrete initiatives" that could help broker a deal were considered during two days of talks by the climate officials in Washington.
Britain: Suspicion between rich and poor countries threatens climate change pactSeptember 8th, 2009 UK: Global deal on climate change at riskLONDON — Two British Cabinet ministers said Tuesday that attempts to broker a new global pact on climate change by the end of the year are at risk of failing. Hopes for an agreement being reached at a United Nations summit in December "hang in the balance," undermined by a climate of suspicion between rich and poor countries, said Foreign Secretary David Miliband, speaking at a press conference with his brother, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband.
Britain: A new global pact to tackle climate change may not happenSeptember 8th, 2009 UK: Global deal on climate change may not happenLONDON — Britain's Foreign Secretary says there is danger a United Nations conference in December won't strike a global deal on climate change. David Miliband said Tuesday the complexity of negotiations and disputes between industrialized and developing nations leave prospects for a deal "in the balance."
He said they threaten to sink a new global pact which would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the conference in Copenhagen.
EU president Sweden calls special EU summit ahead of G20 summit in PittsburghSeptember 4th, 2009 Special EU summit called ahead of G20 talks in USSTOCKHOLM — Sweden has called for an extra meeting of European Union leaders to discuss the global financial crisis ahead of a summit of Group of 20 nations in the U.S. later this month.
G8 leaders 'ignored' UN findings on climate change: PachauriJuly 21st, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - The world's largest economies have "clearly ignored" the findings of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN scientific body that evaluates climate change when formulating their recent proposals on slashing greenhouse gases, a top official said. It was a "big step" for leaders of over one dozen developed nations attending the Major Economies Forum (MEF) to recognise that the global average temperature should not increase by more than two degrees centigrade, Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told reporters here Monday.
India hopeful as G8 talks of green fundJuly 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - India is hopeful that the issue of climate change will move forward with the G8 countries, the group of the world's most developed nations, discussing the setting up of a Green Fund. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran said Friday that the step by the G8 to provide financial assistance to the Green Fund was a "forward-looking one".
EU presidency: new climate change pact hinges on China, India doing their partJuly 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.
Obama says Europe moving more quickly than America on confronting global warmingJune 26th, 2009 Obama: US lags behind Europe on climate changeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says European nations have moved faster than the United States on global warming and that he'd like to see America play a greater leadership role. Obama told reporters at the White House Friday that he has been "very frank and blunt" with Chancellor Angela Merkel in explaining the obstacles that have gotten in the way of climate change efforts at home.
India wants to meet China, Brazil, Russia over climate pactMay 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There should be high level talks between Brazil, Russia, India and China on a global pact to combat climate change before the first BRIC summit in Russia next month, India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran said here Thursday. The talks should be at the level of either politicians or senior officials, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Saran told delegates from all BRIC countries at a summit preparatory meeting organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
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