US says differences in global climate talks narrowing

October 8th, 2009 BANGKOK - Tired of the way industrialised countries are dragging their feet on a global agreement to tackle global warming, young Indian climate activist Leela Raina has found a new way to express her frustration. She has written a blog with 11 reasons on why she will not date a man from a developed country.

September 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that Denver, US, released the largest amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Barcelona, Spain, the smallest amount this year. The study documented how differences in climate, population density and other factors affect GHG emissions in global cities.

September 23rd, 2009 Obama pleads for harder work on climate changeUNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama has implored world leaders to confront climate change, saying there can be no peace without cooperative work to preserve the planet. Appearing before global leaders gathered at the United Nations, Obama said Wednesday that "the danger posed by climate change cannot be denied — and our responsibility to meet it must not be deferred." The president said "this is why the days when America dragged its feet on this issue are over." He said he understood the tempation of nations to put economic recovery from recession ahead of climate change work, but said that must not be allowed to happen.

September 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.

August 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have analyzed seven different climate models to come to the conclusion that human-induced land cover changes (LCCs), such as the clearing of forests for farming, can affect climate. To study the regional and global effects of LCC, A.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and China signed a document on climate change and clean energy Tuesday that sets out a path for improving cooperation between the world's two leading polluters. But there were few details on what the "memorandum of understanding" entails.

July 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India has given a new momentum to India-US relationship, but differences over climate change and trade talks may cloud their "strategic partnership", mainline US media suggests. "The message Clinton sought to deliver was clear: the Obama administration wants to carry forward the momentum in bilateral relations gathered during the George W.

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.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - The groups of rich and developing countries, including India, are likely to commit themselves to early conclusion of the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade talks under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) later Thursday. A statement in this regard to this effect is expected from the G8 and G5 countries, as well as Egypt, at the G8 Summit being held at this quake-hit Italian city, some 100 km northeast of Rome.

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 11th, 2009 BONN - The preparatory talks here on a global deal to tackle climate change are in an "unsatisfactory state", Indian delegation leader Shyam Saran said Thursday on the penultimate day of the June 1-12 conclave. "At this rate, we're unlikely to get an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen, one that will be able to tackle climate change adequately," Saran, the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change, told the media here.

May 29th, 2009 Climate-change diasters kill 300,000 a yearLONDON — Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reported Friday.

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.

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The world's wealthiest nations should be responsible for China's pollution coming from exports, Chinese officials said amid talks with the US on how to combat global warming. China, the world's largest polluter together with the US, has a plan in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming even as its economy grows rapidly, said Li Gao, director of China's department of climate change.

January 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new climate change envoy Monday as part of a bolstered US presence on the international stage to address global warming. Todd Stern will become the country's chief climate negotiator with the international community, which is hoping to agree to a new climate treaty by the end of this year.