Obama: US, Europe leaders must redouble efforts toward climate pact before Copenhagen talks

November 3rd, 2009 more images more imagesGore expects Obama to attend Dec. climate talksWASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore says he believes President Barack Obama will attend the December climate talks in Copenhagen to emphasize his administration's commitment to safeguarding the environment.

November 3rd, 2009 more images more imagesAfricans protest low emissions targets at UN talksBARCELONA, Spain — African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks Tuesday, saying industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emisions.

November 2nd, 2009 more images more imagesEU seeks clear US position on climate changeSTOCKHOLM — European Union leaders want President Barack Obama to clarify the U.S. position on climate change as they meet in Washington this week.

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 22nd, 2009 China hopeful about Copenhagen climate talksBEIJING — China wants to increase cooperation with the U.S. and other nations to reach a deal at global climate talks in December, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday.

September 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.

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 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.

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.

September 10th, 2009 EU steps up efforts for new global climate pactCOPENHAGEN — Fearing that a possible global deal on climate change is in danger, European foreign ministers announced Thursday they were stepping up efforts to make sure that nations around the world face up to global warming. Five EU foreign ministers have been traveling to European capitals for the last week to press the issue — and now they are taking the case for tackling climate change to other world capitals.

September 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.

July 30th, 2009 UN chief says China wants climate dealUNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says China's leaders have assured him they want to seal a deal on a new U.N. climate treaty at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.

March 29th, 2009 BONN - A new round of UN climate change negotiations kicks off in Bonn Sunday, as 2,000 delegates from around 180 countries gather in the former German capital. The 10-day conference is the first of three planned meetings paving the way for December's Copenhagen summit, where final talks are due on a renewal of the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.

March 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has invited 16 other major economies and the UN to Washington to prepare for international efforts to reduce climate changing greenhouse gas emissions. The White House said Saturday it would ask the countries' leaders and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to send representatives to Washington April 27-28 for the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to prepare for UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen set for December.