Negotiators at UN climate talks say strong Copenhagen global warming deal still possible

November 5th, 2009 BARCELONA - December's Copenhagen climate conference will produce a "real" but probably not binding agreement, a US climate change negotiator said Thursday. Jonathan Pershing made the comments in Barcelona, Spain, where UN climate negotiators are trying to pave the way for a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen Dec 7-18.

November 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and European Union resumed talks on climate change Tuesday as they intensify efforts to reach an accord ahead of next month's UN summit in Copenhagen, expressing confidence a pact could be reached. US President Barack Obama said the discussions focused "extensively" on reaching a deal to reduce greenhouse gases by 2020.

November 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, facing pressure from the European Union to curb US greenhouse-gas emissions, has said that he was confident a global climate treaty could be worked out by December's UN summit in Copenhagen. During a White House meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, Obama said all governments wanted to see the Copenhagen talks succeed in moving the ball forward on curbing global warming.

October 30th, 2009 EU leaders assess new climate change finance dealBRUSSELS — The European Union is seeking to maintain a united stand on climate change by giving leeway to poorer member states to pay less into global climate aid fund. EU leaders opened a final day of summit talks Friday facing a new proposal that would allow cash-strapped eastern EU states to pay less into a fund to entice developing nations to join an international climate pact by helping them cope with the effects of global warming.

October 29th, 2009 EU leaders fail to agree on climate aid figureBRUSSELS — European Union leaders say the bloc has so far failed to agree on how much aid to offer to poorer nations in global climate deal. The host of an EU leaders' summit, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, said "on climate, we are not ready yet.

October 26th, 2009 UN leader hopes US will act soon on global warmingSEATTLE — Just six weeks before a key meeting on climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he's hopeful the U.S.

October 8th, 2009 BANGKOK - "Time is running out for Copenhagen," the UN climate chief said here Thursday, exactly two months before the start of the summit that is expected to seal a deal to tackle global warming. The 4,000-odd negotiators from 177 countries, who are here for the Sep 28-Oct 9 talks to prepare for the December summit, have one day here and five days in Barcelona next month to draft an agreement for Copenhagen, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out.

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Assuring the developed world that India would not be the deal-breaker in Copenhagen, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the rich nations to be less "evangelical" and less "polemical" in their push for a deal. "India has not caused the problem of global warming but we want to make sure we're part of the solution," Ramesh said at a breakfast meeting hosted by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

September 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.

September 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.

August 28th, 2009 UN chief urges world to 'seize day' on climateVIENNA — The U.N. chief is urging the world to "seize the day" on climate change ahead of a major conference on global warming set for December in Copenhagen.

August 28th, 2009 UN chief urges world to back climate dealVIENNA — The U.N. chief is urging the world to "seal the deal" on climate change ahead of a major conference on global warming in December.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - "India considers China its most important ally in Copenhagen negotiations," Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Friday. Negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen this December have often been fractious, with developed and major developing countries like India and China often taking opposing stands on who should do more to combat global warming.

July 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Monday said there remained a "glaring gap" between the policy and science on climate change. "We need to connect science and policy," Rajendra Pachauri said at a news conference organised by the United Nations Environment Programme.

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.