French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese ...
In reversal, Canada's prime minister to attend UN climate-change meeting in Copenhagen Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a ...
Indonesia plans to deport seven foreign Greenpeace activists involved in a protest against deforestation, seen as a contributor to global warming, the group said Thursday. The seven were among a group of 14 activists detained on Wednesday after some of them chained ...
The Commonwealth is trying to shape the direction of upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen by inviting top outside leaders to a weekend summit here, host Trinidad said on Thursday. UN chief Ban Ki-moon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Danish Prime Minister Lars ...
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Commonwealth leaders will put the world's small island states at the frontline of the climate debate when they meet on Friday to press for an effective international pact against global warming. Around half of the 53-nation Commonwealth ...
Having vowed US climate action, President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen needing to perform a delicate balancing act between huge expectations and the reality of a reluctant Congress. Obama will travel to the Danish capital on December 9 to offer the first ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal. The announcement ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.'s panel of climate experts rejected accusations of bias on Thursday, saying a "Climategate" row in no way undermined evidence that humans are to blame for global warming. Climate change skeptics have seized on a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Only one fifth of the world's forests remain but an area bigger than Canada could be restored without harming food production, a global alliance dedicated to restoring forests said on Thursday. A study by the Global Partnership on Forest ...
China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth by 2020, building momentum for Copenhagen China promised Thursday to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the ...
Perry, Texas Republican leaders fight climate legislation they say would hurt state's economy While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders in the state ...
MILAN (Reuters) - Rising sea levels, ocean warming, cyclones and droughts caused by climate change is set to hit hard food security in the Pacific islands, the United Nations' food agency said, urging governments to take immediate actions. Climate change is expected ...
