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Deal Would See Rich Nations Making Big Emissions Cuts
The UN climate talks have produced the first official draft blueprint for a deal that would set targets for limiting global warming to 2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, AFP reported. Comment?
EU agrees 6.5bn for climate action
... find the balance to run the fund from 2010-2012, allowing developing nations time to adapt to the impact of global warming before whatever emissions-cutting deal is agreed in Copenhagen kicks in, in 2013. Asked why the British contribution was the ... Comment?
... fuels, and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused global warming. Both of those factors, he said, belong to history. a oeThose days are over. "Whata TMs required is nothing less than ... Comment?
U.N. Bodies Want Up to $60 Billion to Mo
... to fill in huge blanks in scientific knowledge on everything from the importance of clouds and water vapor to global warming, to the actual volume of man-made vs. natural greenhouse gas concentrations in the world's oceans, to the true extent of ... Comment?
Nobel award in hand, Obama faces hard work at home
... of leaders from around the globe in final negotiations on a pact to aimed at stemming emissions blamed for global warming. Senators supporting climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that calls for a 17 percent reduction in U.S. ... Comment?
Free Speech TV and Greenpeace Join Forces to Bring Breaking Coverage of Climate Change Summit
... UN Summit in Copenhagen is our chance to secure a deal that will save the planet from the worst impacts of global warming,' said Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford, 'President Obama and other world leaders need to know that their ... Comment?
Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks
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... A much-disputed 188-page text was whittled down to a mere seven pages of stark options on how much global warming is acceptable and how deeply nations must individually and collectively cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Options ranged ... Comment?
UN draft calls for big emissions cuts from rich nations
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... China wasn't asking for money, but suggested the US and China had different responsibilities in dealing with global warming. So far, pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial countries have amounted to far less than the minimum. ... Comment?
Developing nations slam EU climate fund pledge
COPENHAGEN: Developing nations at the UN climate conference rejected as "insignificant" on Friday an EU pledge of 7.2 billion euros to help them tackle global warming. Comment?
Climate talks: First blows are struck over proposed deal
... dollars in aid just hours before -- to a oeclimate skeptics.a The text, seen by AFP, sees targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees Celsius. It also foresees a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol boycotted by the United ... Comment?
Climate Change: The World Is Bogged Down in Copenhagen
... pending are details on adaptation actions, which are essential for poor countries to confront the effects of global warming, as well as different aspects of financing. And the draft does not specify the year that emissions should peak. Developed ... Comment?
News from Copenhagen: Radical Cuts Urged, Deal In Jeopardy
... that the emissions of rich nations over the past two hundred years of industrialization had caused global warming, telling a press conference, "We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the atmosphere." But, Stern added, "the ... Comment?
Draft Deal Gives Lift To Flagging Climate Talks
A draft climate pact unveiled on Friday revived hopes that U.N. talks might be able to pin down an international deal to fight global warming, but developing nations said they needed more cash from the rich. Comment?
Action needed on global warming
Only a person seriously out of touch with reality would believe that increasing levels of pollution and global warming are not serious problems facing the human race and eartha s other species. Comment?
Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate
... put down their clipboards and pick up signboards. After the tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu, doomed by global warming's rising waters, was gaveled down in a bid to force more drastic action on climate, hundreds of activists descended on the ... Comment?
... possibility. Right? Apparently not, when it comes to climate studies. For years now, we've been told that global warming is settled science. Humans are purportedly destroying our planet, and we need to take action to prevent that, no matter how much ... Comment?
Cut CO2 level at least 50% by 2050: UN draft
... 1990 levels. The draft leaves long-term financing, or how much rich nations should pay poor ones to deal with global warming, to be dealt with later. PTI adds: India is unhappy with the first official draft prepared at the climate change summit ... Comment?
Japan under fire for laying low in Copenhagen
... on Japan's environmental policies under the Hatoyama Initiative and what steps Japan is taking to combat global warming at home and around the world. Officials defended the role Japan has played so far, saying the reduction targets announced by the ... Comment?
... follows. Feel the chill John Foley / December 12, 2009, 0:45 IST China/Copenhagen: Copenhagen's talks about global warming were supposed to bring the nations of the world together in agreement. After all, countries may disagree about borders, ... Comment?
Global warming as a political tool
... the United Nations Foundation, once said: "We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." New York Times columnist ... Comment?