Top UN climate official to AP: G-8 should help poor countries now with global warming

AMSTERDAM — Developing countries need money now to grapple with global warming, and the Group of Eight summit this week could energize troubled climate negotiations if it decided to make “significant” funds available, the top U.N. climate official said Monday.

Nonprofit Oxfam warns G-8: chronic hunger will spread to tragic levels due to climate change

AMSTERDAM — Chronic hunger may be “the defining human tragedy of this century,” as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said.