Topic: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UN climate talks on Saturday faced the scythe of Father Time as environment ministers haggled over proposals for a new pact to roll back the threat from greenhouse gases.The 194-nation parley under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hurtled into ...
Six Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.The six were detained as they tried to hang a banner reading "Listen to the People, not the Polluters" ...
A European drive to forge a legally-binding deal on climate change by 2015 that would include all major carbon polluters is "too much", a senior Chinese negotiator said at UN talks here."I exchanged views with my European colleagues before I came here ...
In the race against world governments and the wealthiest companies to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor, a small, innovative Canadian firm is hoping to bottle and sell the sun's energy.In a laboratory in this Pacific Coast city, General Fusion physicists and engineers ...
Storms and drought that have unleashed dangerous surges in food prices could be a "grim foretaste" of what lies ahead when climate change bites more deeply, Oxfam said on Monday.In a report issued at the start of the UN climate talks here, ...
The UN's talks on climate change are daft and crippled by finger-pointing and the need for consensus, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was quoted on Thursday by Le Monde as saying.Nasheed also said emerging economies were as much to blame ...
Administrators tasked with running the UN's talks on climate change have put out the begging bowl to help implement deals that in theory could reach a hundred billion dollars a year.The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is asking its 194 ...
A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed until the second half of April, a UN official said on Thursday.Representatives from ...
Seventy-five countries accounting for more than 80 percent of greenhouse gases from energy use have filed pledges to cut or limit carbon emissions by 2020, the UN climate convention said on Wednesday.The promises, made under the Copenhagen Accord, are only a step ...
The UN climate conference agreed to " take note" Saturday of an accord between senior world leaders, a move that analysts said would allow the pact to take effect. "The conference decides to take note of the Copenhagen Accord of December 18, ...
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