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Kenya PM blasts African tactics at climate talks

AFP Global Edition 13 days ago

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Saturday criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case. "I believe for example that grandstanding ... like walking out of meetings like African ...

Spain UN Climate Talks

AP News 14 days ago

Activists of the environmental group Avaaz wearing costumes representing an alien delegation mingled with UN delegates during UN climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Barcelona is hosting the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. ...

Spain Climate

AP News 14 days ago

An activist of the environmental group Avaaz wearing costume representing an alien delegation mingles with UN delegates during the UN climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Barcelona hosts the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate ...

Forty leaders plan to attend climate talks: U.N.

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 days ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - About 40 world leaders plan to go to Copenhagen next month to boost the chances of clinching a U.N. climate deal, the United Nations said Friday as preparatory talks wound down with scant progress. Developing nations in Barcelona ...

40 heads of state to attend December climate summit: U.N.

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 days ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Some 40 heads of state plan to attend a U.N. meeting in December in Copenhagen meant to agree a global warming deal, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday. "My understanding is that 40 heads of state have ...

Low-carbon farms can raise food output, food agency says

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 days ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Low-carbon farming can both curb climate change and boost food output in developing nations and so must be rewarded under a global climate deal due in December, the U.N.'s food agency said on Thursday. Steps to cut carbon ...

Poor urge deep climate cuts

Reuters US Online Report Top News 14 days ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. The top U.S. climate diplomat Todd ...

Rejecting climate bill

Las Vegas Sun 14 days ago

Republicans engage in partisanship as world awaits leadership on warming Congressional Republicans this week continued their assault on President Barack Obamaƕs agenda, this time by acting like juveniles while world leaders pleaded for leadership. In the Senate, the environment committee had scheduled ...

Music Green Day

AP News 15 days ago

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong performs during their 21st Century Breakdown Tour in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/David Ramos, file) Copyright 2009 AP News

Study finds vital peatlands neglected

Reuters Environmental Online Report 16 days ago

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Draining and burning of the world's peat bogs accounts for about 5.5 percent of global carbon emissions but are currently excluded from governments' climate targets and U.N. talks, a study found on Wednesday. Peat stores around twice as ...

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