COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s Vestas, the world’s biggest manufacturer of wind turbines, said on Wednesday it won an order for 24 turbines for the Andalusia region in Spain.
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Thailand sets health rules to tackle industrial row
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand on Tuesday approved regulations on health and environment assessments for industrial projects, a step toward allowing suspended operations to go ahead at the world’s eighth-biggest petrochemical hub.
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.
Leaders meet into night to beat climate deadline
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – World leaders worked through the early hours to try and beat a Friday deadline for a deal on cutting emissions and helping poor countries cope with the costly impact of global warming.
Obama heads to Copenhagen, sees progress with China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is making progress with China on outstanding issues overshadowing U.N. climate talks but cannot say whether a deal will result after President Barack Obama arrives in Copenhagen, officials said.
Republicans work to block EPA carbon rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers said on Thursday they would try to block a Environmental Protection Agency proposal that opens the door to federal regulation of planet-warming gases.
U.N. climate talks like "childrens’ homework"
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Getting the world to agree a new U.N. climate deal is as difficult as forcing schoolchildren to do their homework or to make horses drink, hosts of deadlocked U.N. talks said on Tuesday.
Coral climate crisis puts 250 million at risk: U.N.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than 250 million people risk losing their livelihoods because of dying tropical coral reefs in what a senior U.N. environmental economist said on Saturday was part of a double climate crisis facing the world.
More than 100 nations back tougher climate goals
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – More than half the countries at 192-nation U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen back far tougher goals for limiting global warming than those favored by rich nations, a group of small island states said on Monday.
Climate concerns put fuel focus back on uranium
LONDON (Reuters) – Uranium, the silvery-white mineral that powers nuclear reactors, is capturing growing attention amid burgeoning demand for power from emerging nations and a scramble to curtail carbon emissions.
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