COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Climate negotiators warned on Wednesday they may miss the opportunity to cap emissions from shipping and aviation and so miss out on billions of dollars in taxation to help poor countries cope with climate change.
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U.N. comes clean on emissions, vows reduction
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Tuesday that it produces nearly 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, but it vowed to reduce the climate-harming gases it spews into the atmosphere.
Two U.S. Senators unveil alternative climate bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two more U.S. Senators jumped into the climate bill debate on Friday, offering a proposal that would cap planet-warming emissions but reduce the role of Wall Street in carbon markets.
Climate change to drive up to 1 bln from homes: IOM
GENEVA (Reuters) – Climate change stands to drive as many as one billion people from their homes over the next four decades, the International Organization for Migration said in a study Tuesday.
India to slow greenhouse growth in step to U.N. deal
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India set a goal on Thursday for slowing the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, the last major economy to offer a climate target four days before the start of U.N. talks on combating global warming.
"Climate saboteurs" threaten Copenhagen: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Climate skeptics, people who doubt the science on global warming, must not be allowed to sabotage U.N. climate talks which start next week, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary said Thursday. “I do think that we have to beware of the climate saboteurs, the people who want to say the science is somehow in doubt, and want to cast aspersions on the whole process,” Ed Miliband told reporters at a briefing.
"Climate saboteurs" threaten Copenhagen: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Climate skeptics, people who doubt the science on global warming, must not be allowed to sabotage U.N. climate talks which start next week, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary said Thursday. “I do think that we have to beware of the climate saboteurs, the people who want to say the science is somehow in doubt, and want to cast aspersions on the whole process,” Ed Miliband told reporters at a briefing.
Commonwealth sees island states on climate frontline
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.
Harper to attend climate talks
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its heels on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol.
EU bio industry complains over U.S. duty evaders
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s biofuels industry said on Thursday it would lodge a complaint with EU trade authorities against companies they say are evading duties slapped on U.S. biodiesel imports.
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