BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing authorities shut schools, mobilized extra buses and ordered thousands of residents to help clear icy roads and paths with shovels on Monday, as the Chinese capital struggled with its harshest winter weather in years.
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Turkey secures $294 mln from Japan for water project
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s Treasury said on Monday a loan of 26.826 billion yen ($294 million) was secured from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the financing of an Ankara water supply project.
Copenhagen’s Tivoli says climate talks hurt profits
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Park operator Tivoli, set in Denmark’s capital, cut its guidance for 2009 profits on Monday after thousands of visitors stayed away when governments met in Copenhagen this month for U.N. climate talks.
Britain blames China for climate talks’ failure
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain accused China and a handful of others on Monday of holding the world to ransom by blocking a legal treaty to fight global warming as countries traded blame for the deadlock in Copenhagen.
U.S. pledges $85 million for renewable energy
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The United States pledged on Monday to contribute $85 million to a $350 million multinational fund aimed at speeding up renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies in poor countries.
U.S. pledges $85 million for renewable energy
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The United States pledged on Monday to contribute $85 million to a $350 million multinational fund aimed at speeding up renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies in poor countries.
Africans accuse rich of trying to kill Kyoto
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – African nations accused rich countries on Monday of trying to kill the U.N.’s existing Kyoto Protocol for cutting greenhouse gases, in a deep split four days before world leaders aim to forge a new U.N. climate pact.
DONG Energy cars torched ahead of Copenhagen protest
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Arsonists set alight three cars belonging to DONG Energy on Monday, just hours ahead of a planned protest against the state-owned utility, as more than 190 nations meet in the city to agree a climate deal.
Lawsuit seeks to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The waterway that allows invasive Asian carp into the Great Lakes should be closed, Michigan’s attorney general said on Monday as the state prepared a lawsuit to protect its fishing and tourism industries.
Cup teams kick off climate meet with CO2 pledge
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than half of the 32 countries qualified for the soccer World Cup have committed to or support offsetting emissions from teams’ flights to and within South Africa, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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