Climate Change

BEIJING (AFP) - Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A major rift surfaced at UN climate talks between emerging giants and countries most exposed to the ravages of global warming as top polluter China took aim at rich nations for failing to act. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Just five years ago, anyone who talked of easing Earth's climate crisis by fertilising the seas with iron, scattering particles in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight or building a sunshade in space courted ridicule. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - China's envoy to the world climate change talks in Copenhagen has criticised rich countries for failing to fulfil commitments to curb carbon emissions and provide aid to developing nations. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top aides promised on Wednesday "robust" negotiations toward a global climate change deal this month, but firmly stated the United States does not owe the world "reparations" for centuries of carbon pollution. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN — “Climategate” has muddied the good green message that was supposed to come out of the United Nations climate change talks here, forcing leaders to spend time justifying the science behind global warming when they want to focus on ending it. Full Story »

WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to attend a world summit on climate change, a majority of Americans are willing to pay more for a solution only if it would create "green" jobs in the United States, according to a McClatchy-Ipsos poll released Wednesday. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - The UN emergency food agency Wednesday launched a "call to action" to help the world's farmers prepare for the effects of global warming. Full Story »

MADRID (AFP) - Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures. Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazil could lose 2.05 trillion dollars over the next four decades from climate change, according to a new study by the country's Applied Economics Research Institute and 10 associated institutions. Full Story »

GABORONE (AFP) - Botswana needs 143 million dollars a year in aid to fight climate change, mainly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its coal-powered plants, the environment minister said Wednesday. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Amazon Indians, Malawi farmers, Tibetan monks and Inuits from Greenland exchanged ideas Wednesday on how to combat global warming at a boisterous alternative forum in Copenhagen on the sidelines of UN climate talks. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican lawmakers critical of efforts to battle climate change vowed to fly next week to the Copenhagen summit to undercut President Barack Obama's promises of strong US action. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a Dow Jones-style "climate-change index" aimed at showing in user-friendly form the perils posed by man-made global warming. Full Story »

OSLO - Although he doesn't show up at the Copenhagen climate talks until next week, U.S. President Barack Obama won't be far from global warming issues when he lands in Oslo Thursday to collect his contentious Nobel Peace Prize. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The impacts of climate change have worsened almost every year since 1980, according to a study on Wednesday inspired by the Dow Jones stock index that distils global warming into a single number. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN - The U.S. and China exchanged barbs Wednesday at the Copenhagen climate talks, underscoring the abiding suspicion between the world's two largest carbon polluters about the sincerity of their pledges to control emissions. Full Story »