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IEA hopes climate pact won't delay greenhouse cuts
Sun,11 Dec 2011 06:35 PM PST
AP - The chief economist of the International Energy Agency said Monday he welcomes a new U.N. climate change agreement but hopes it will not cause countries to put off action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the next decade. Full Story | Top |
Climate deal doesn't make things worse _ or better
Sun,11 Dec 2011 03:19 PM PST
AP - The hard-fought deal at a global climate conference in South Africa keeps talks alive but doesn't address the core problem: The world's biggest carbon polluters aren't willing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to stave off dangerous levels of global warming. Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Coal's bridge to future might lie in the past
Sun,11 Dec 2011 02:06 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As futuristic projects designed to capture carbon from coal-burning industries and store it underground have failed, the two largest consumers of the fuel, the United States and China, hope answers to limiting emissions blamed for global warming lie in the past. Power-generators, coal miners and policy makers had put faith in projects to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired plants and pump it directly underground into geologic formations for permanent storage. ... Full Story | Top |
FACT CHECK: Plenty to question in GOP debate
Sun,11 Dec 2011 12:22 PM PST
AP - When Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich in the latest Republican debate of once supporting a cap-and-trade program to curb global warming, he huffily denied it and told her she should get her facts straight. Full Story | Top |
New U.N. climate deal struck, critics say gains modest
Sun,11 Dec 2011 11:57 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming. A package of accords agreed after marathon U.N. talks in South Africa extended the 1997 Kyoto Protocol - the only global pact enforcing carbon cuts - allowing five more years to finalize a wider pact which has so far eluded negotiators. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. Reaches a Global Greenhouse Gas Reduction Agreement
Sun,11 Dec 2011 11:52 AM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network - United Nations representatives from 194 countries reached an agreement on new global warming restrictions in Durban, South Africa, this morning, according to the Associated Press. The deal set to take effect by 2020 at the latest binds all countries to a commitment to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases.Ohioans share their thoughts on the global warming agreement via instant messaging, Twitter, email and in-person interviews. Full Story | Top |
Late Hour Climate Change Deal was Hard-Fought
Sun,11 Dec 2011 10:15 AM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network - With 194 parties at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, diplomats gave up sleep to debate into the wee hours of the morning today for a deal they hoped would set the course for controlling greenhouse gases in the coming decades. According to the Associated Press, the agreement that was reached in Day 14 and very nearly didn't happen. Here is a look back at some of the frustrations encountered at the conference. Full Story | Top |
Santorum likens Gingrich and Romney to Obama
Sun,11 Dec 2011 06:09 AM PST
AP - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is lumping together his two leading rivals, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, and saying their records are too much like President Barack Obama's on big issues like health care, climate change and Wall Street bailouts. Full Story | Top |
Analysis: World still in arrears on climate change pledges
Sun,11 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - When the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally-binding pact to tackle climate change was adopted in the economically-booming 1990s, it was meant to be a down payment. Sunday's tentative promise, thrashed out over days of talks, that all the big emitters will eventually join an international scheme of carbon reduction targets is the latest small installment and allows U.N. law to retain some value in trying to stop the planet from overheating. Environmentalists want much more. ... Full Story | Top |
Instant View: U.N. climate talks reach modest deal
Sun,11 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, reached a deal that for the first time would bring all major emitters into international efforts to limit global warming, but which environmentalists said did not go far enough. Following is reaction from key players and observers. CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, UNFCCC EXECUTIVE SECRETARY "I salute the countries who made this agreement. They have all laid aside some cherished objectives of their own to meet a common purpose, a long-term solution to climate change. ... Full Story | Top |
What U.N. climate talks agreed in Durban
Sun,11 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - U.N. climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, agreed a package of measures early on Sunday that would eventually force all the world's polluters to take legally binding action to slow the pace of global changing. After more than two weeks of intense talks, some 190 countries agreed to four main elements -- a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, the design of a Green Climate Fund and a mandate to get all countries in 2015 to sign a deal that would force them to cut emissions no later than 2020, as well as a workplan for next year. ... Full Story | Top |
Private sector finance eyed for U.N. forest projects
Sun,11 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - Private investors may be allowed to earn carbon credits by paying poor countries to halt the destruction of tropical forests, but a U.N. climate summit failed to agree the details needed to get the ambitious program off the ground. The felling of trees that capture the heat-trapping gases responsible for global warming accounts for about 20 percent of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, and studies show an acre (0.4 hectare) of forest is lost every second around the globe. ... Full Story | Top |
New UN climate deal struck, critics say gains modest
Sun,11 Dec 2011 04:48 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming. The package of accords extended the Kyoto Protocol, the only global pact that enforces carbon cuts, agreed the format of a fund to help poor countries tackle climate change and mapped out a path to a legally binding agreement on emissions reductions. ... Full Story | Top |
Private sector finance eyed for UN forest projects
Sun,11 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN (Reuters) - Private investors may be allowed to earn carbon credits by paying poor countries to halt the destruction of tropical forests, but a U.N. climate summit failed to agree the details needed to get the ambitious programme off the ground. The felling of trees that capture the heat-trapping gases responsible for global warming accounts for about 20 percent of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, and studies show an acre (0.4 hectare) of forest is lost every second around the globe. ... Full Story | Top |
World still in arrears on climate change pledges
Sun,11 Dec 2011 01:01 AM PST
Reuters - DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - When the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally-binding pact to tackle climate change was adopted in the economically-booming 1990s, it was meant to be a down payment. Sunday's tentative promise, thrashed out over days of talks, that all the big emitters will eventually join an international scheme of carbon reduction targets is the latest small instalment and allows U.N. law to retain some value in trying to stop the planet from overheating. Environmentalists want much more. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. climate talks reach modest deal
Sat,10 Dec 2011 08:30 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, reached a deal that for the first time would bring all major emitters into international efforts to limit global warming, but which environmentalists said did not go far enough. Following is reaction from key players and observers. CHRIS HUHNE, UK ENERGY AND CLIMATE SECRETARY "This is a great success for European diplomacy. We've managed to bring the major emitters like the U.S., India and China into a roadmap which will secure an overarching global deal. ... Full Story | Top |
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 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. Full Story | Top |
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. ... Full Story | Top |
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 |
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