As world nears pivotal climate talks, UN reports warming emissions grew for 7th yearBONN, Germany — The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators looked ahead to crucial climate talks in December. UN: Greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries increased in 2007BONN, Germany — The U.N. Climate Change Secretariat says greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries increased in 2007, continuing the upward trend of the previous six years. UN talks to forge new climate-change pact face myriad arguments, may miss December deadlineBONN, Germany — Poor countries stepped up demands Friday on the industrial world to keep the Earth from catastrophically overheating, amid warnings that negotiations are moving too slowly to meet a December deadline for a sweeping accord on global warming. India seeks to bar US trade sanctions against countries that don’t accept climate policyBONN, Germany — India wants the new global climate change agreement to ban trade barriers targeting nations that refuse to accept limits on their carbon emissions, the chief Indian climate negotiator said Friday. Iranian Nobel laureate calls for Europe-Iran talksBONN - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi called Monday for European nations to open direct talks with Tehran rather than criticise its policies from afar. Reduce your pollution 40 percent, India tells industrialised countriesBONN - Industrialised countries should be legally bound to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions “by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels in 2020″, India and 36 other developing countries have proposed. UN climate chief confident of global warming pact this year, despite disagreementsBONN, Germany — U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps and competing ideas that await decisions by political leaders. India, US to hold bilateral talks on climate changeBONN - 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. Delegates return from climate talks with more homeworkBONN - Over 4,000 delegates from 183 countries gathered for the June 1-12 conclave in preparation for a climate summit in Copenhagen this December ended their talks Friday with a draft treaty four times larger than what they started with, indicating the differences on how to tackle the global menace. Changing climate displaces people around the worldBONN - Sena Alouka from Togo, Peter Triloff from Germany and Ana Romero of Mexico have one thing in common - they all have to deal with farmers who can no longer cope with climate change. US envoy says China wants top line US technology in exchange for reining in CO2 emissionsBONN, Germany — China wants the United States to deliver top of the line technology as part of a new global warming agreement, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said Thursday. India unhappy with Bonn climate talksBONN - 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. No money, no climate change inspection: IndiaBONN - India will not let the international community check on what it’s doing to combat climate change unless industrialised countries provide adequate financing and transfer green technologies, say government delegates. No detailed deal in Copenhagen: UN climate chief (Repeating for all needing)BONN - It will be “physically impossible” to have a detailed deal to tackle climate change by this December’s summit in Copenhagen, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said here Wednesday. Climate change could displace 25 million by 2010BONN - By next year - that’s how soon around 25-50 million people will be displaced by climate change as it unleashes more natural disasters and affects farm output, says a senior UN researcher. Northern India will be among the worst affected in the long term. Ragpickers lose jobs as world tackles climate changeBONN - Attempts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) are throwing ragpickers out of jobs, says the leader of an Indian ragpickers’ union. They are not reducing the emissions either, she argues. UN climate chief criticizes Japan’s CO2 emissions target, says rich countries short of goalBONN, Germany — Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the U.N. climate chief as leaving the industrial world dangerously short of its pollution goals. Report: Climate change is a major driver in the migration of tens of millions of refugeesBONN, Germany — Global warming is uprooting people from their homes and, left unchecked, could lead to the greatest human migration in history, said a report released Wednesday. Talks on climate deal remain bogged downBONN - Officials from 182 countries Tuesday started their second reading of a draft global agreement to combat climate change, while delegates admitted in private and NGOs charged in public that no progress was being made. NGOs draft global ‘treaty’ to tackle climate changeBONN - Frustrated by the way governments are dragging their feet on combating climate change, leaders of green NGOs from around the world have come together to present the climate treaty they want to see inked at a global summit scheduled to be held in Denmark in December. Long hard way to global climate deal: UNBONN - 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. AP Interview: US says a climate change deal can go ahead before a US pledge on CO2 reductionBONN, Germany — The United States may miss a December deadline for committing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but that should not block an international agreement on global warming, the chief U.S. negotiator said Wednesday. Negotiators from 181 countries began work on first draft of new global warming treatyBONN, Germany — Negotiators from 181 countries began work on the first draft of a new global warming treaty Monday, calling it a good beginning despite complaints it was unbalanced and incomplete. US to ‘facilitate’ Indian technology proposal in climate dealBONN - The United States is ‘very interested’ in an Indian proposal to create a global network of climate technology centres and thinks it deserves to make it to a UN climate change agreement scheduled for later this year. No such thing as advanced developing country: IndiaBONN - India has told the UN that there is no such thing as an ‘advanced developing country’ - a category that was sought to be introduced by Japan at a just-ended inconclusive global meet on climate change. India says progress ‘disappointing’ as climate change talks endBONN - India said it was disappointed at the slow pace of progress as global talks to confront climate change ended in Bonn Wednesday amid a widening chasm between developed and developing countries on the future course of action. India says no to ‘green protectionism’ of carbon tariffBONN - India Tuesday strongly rejected any attempt by the US or Europe to impose tariffs on exports of Indian goods produced in energy-intensive sectors. India has a bright idea at climate talksBONN - A member of the Indian delegation to the UN climate change talks here has been brandishing a light bulb in order to make a political point. China, India reject climate agreement that obstructs economic growthBONN - India and China have told the United Nations a climate change agreement that slows down their economic growth and locks them into poverty is unacceptable to them. UN conference appeals for change in educationBONN - Government ministers appealed Thursday at the end of a three-day UN meeting here to teach children the ideas of ’sustainable development’ at schools around the world. |
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