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U.N. climate talks agree legal pact on global warming
Sat,10 Dec 2011 07:54 PM PST
Reuters -  DURBAN (Reuters) - U.N. climate change talks agreed a pact on Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global changing. The deal follows years of failed attempts to impose legally-binding, international cuts on emerging giants, such as China and India. The developed world had already accepted formal targets under a first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out at the end of next year, although the United States had never ratified its commitment. ...
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U.N. climate talks agree pact to slow global warming
Sat,10 Dec 2011 07:32 PM PST
Reuters - DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - U.N. climate change talks agreed a pact on Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global warming. The deal follows years of failed attempts to impose legally-binding, international cuts on emerging giants, such as China and India. Full Story | Top |
Climate conference approves landmark deal
Sat,10 Dec 2011 07:29 PM PST
AP -  A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades.
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Climate deal up for approval at UN conference
Sat,10 Dec 2011 04:35 PM PST
AP -  Diplomats frazzled by sleeplessness debated into the early hours of Sunday at a U.N. conference over a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades.
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Draft U.N. climate accord emerges, debate turns ugly
Sat,10 Dec 2011 03:11 PM PST
Reuters -  DURBAN (Reuters) - The chairwoman of U.N. climate talks urged delegates to approve a compromise deal on fighting global warming in the interests of the planet, but an accord remained elusive on Sunday and rich and poor states traded barbs over the limited scope of the package. South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said the four separate texts represented a good outcome after two weeks of sometimes angry debates in the port city of Durban. "I think we all realize they are not perfect. ...
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Billion-Dollar Disasters 'Harbinger' of Future Extreme Weather: NOAA
Sat,10 Dec 2011 12:46 PM PST
LiveScience.com - SAN FRANCISCO — The 12 $1-billion-plus disasters that hit the United States this year are most likely not simply a matter of the stars aligning against us, according to the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who implicated climate change as a contributor. Full Story | Top |
Ministers battle to save UN climate talks
Sat,10 Dec 2011 07:36 AM PST
Reuters -  DURBAN (Reuters) - Ministers fought to save U.N. climate talks from collapse on Saturday, searching to narrow differences between rich and poor nations over how quickly to fight global warming. Ministerial negotiations in the South African port city of Durban dragged into Saturday afternoon but with many delegates due to head home, there was a strong chance real decisions would be put off until next year. ...
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New deal tabled at climate talks after rebellion
Fri,9 Dec 2011 03:40 PM PST
Reuters -  DURBAN (Reuters) - Developing states most at risk from global warming rebelled against a proposed deal at U.N. climate talks on Friday, forcing host South Africa to draw up new draft documents in a bid to prevent the talks collapsing. South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane suspended the talks in Durban after a coalition of island nations, developing states and the European Union complained the current draft lacked ambition, sources said. ...
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UN conference struggling to reach climate deal
Fri,9 Dec 2011 12:21 PM PST
AP -  Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely alliance of the United States, China and India.
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Record Year for Billion-Dollar Disasters Can Be Attributed to More People
Fri,9 Dec 2011 08:54 AM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network - COMMENTARY| USA Today is reporting that the United States was hit by 12 weather and climate related disasters in 2011, which broke the old record of 8 set in 2008. The report also states that there were as many billion-dollar disasters this year than in the entire 1980s when adjusted for inflation, and the report shows scientists attribute the severe weather to a combination of global warming and freak weather. So while blaming bad luck in part is not such a bad idea, but the big factor that the Associated Press points out makes a lot more sense: more people. Full Story | Top |
EU warns time running out for climate deal
Fri,9 Dec 2011 08:40 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - The European Union said key developing states backed its roadmap for a binding pact to fight global warming, but warned U.N. climate talks could still collapse on Friday unless all major polluters came on board. The EU plan sets a 2015 target date for a new deal that would impose binding cuts on the world's biggest emitters of heat-trapping gases, a pact that would come into force up to five years later. ... Full Story | Top |
Climate talks mean life or death for island states
Thu,8 Dec 2011 11:59 PM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - Nature does not negotiate. So while climate change delegates haggle over deadlines, binding targets and finance, some of the world's poorest states are warning that rising sea levels and storms will sweep them away unless the world agrees to tackle global warning. "We will be one of the first countries to go under water," said Foua Toloa, a senior politician on Tokelau, an island half-way between Hawaii and New Zealand that is no more than five metres above sea-level. "We are a small and fragile nation very susceptible to environment and climate developments. ... Full Story | Top |
Support grows for Durban climate deal
Thu,8 Dec 2011 09:55 PM PST
Reuters - DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets by 2015, after poor nations vulnerable to climate change forged alliances with developed countries. The European Union said it was encouraged its "road map" to legally binding commitments by 2015 to cut greenhouse gas emissions was gaining traction at the talks, which are due to wrap up in the South African port of Durban on Friday. U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
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