Climate Change

COPENHAGEN — Reaching an international agreement to curb the dangerous impacts of global warming largely depends on the two key players at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen  — China and the United States. Full Story »

MANILA (AFP) - Hundreds of protesters wearing red shirts banged on drums and bamboo poles and sang songs outside Manila's City Hall on Saturday demanding global action on climate change. Full Story »

SYDNEY (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people marched across Australia on Saturday as part of a global protest demanding tough action from world leaders on climate change. Full Story »

Among the pressing questions facing international climate change negotiators in Copenhagen this week is how much money wealthier countries, like the United States, should commit to help developing nations adapt to global warming. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A draft climate pact unveiled on Friday revived hopes that U.N. talks might be able to pin down an international deal to fight global warming, but developing nations said they needed more cash from the rich. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Congress has yet to pass a comprehensive plan on climate change but it is taking action on one front -- ordering an in-depth "carbon audit" of the tax code. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Major players fired the first shots in a three-way battle on climate change on Friday, wrangling over a seven-page document proposed as the blueprint of a historic UN pact. Full Story »

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister and African Union climate negotiator Meles Zenawi downplayed Friday the chances of a deal to tackle global warming being struck at UN talks in Copenhagen. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Two senators on Friday offered yet another approach to tackling climate change, proposing the government sell pollution allowances to industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions and then use most of the money to send tax-free monthly checks to every American. Full Story »

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Friday hit back at critics accusing it of dragging its feet on climate change, saying it had to ensure economic development as the industrial collapse after the Soviet Union's fall had to be taken into account. Full Story »

An influential bipartisan pair of senators unveiled a climate change measure Friday that is intended as an alternative to "cap-and-trade" legislation, potentially complicating the dynamics of passing a global warming bill in the Senate. Full Story »

European Union leaders agreed at a summit Friday to come up with $3.6 billion a year through 2012, or a total of $10.8 billion over three years, to help pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. Here are some of the pledges made by the 27 EU members until a new climate pact being negotiated in Copenhagen comes into effect in 2013: Full Story »

BRUSSELS - EU leaders agreed Friday to commit euro2.4 billion ($3.6 billion) a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming, as they sought to rescue their image as climate change innovators and bolster the talks in Copenhagen. Full Story »

BRUSSELS - In the midst of negotiating about climate change, banking bonuses and Iran at a European Union summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy snuck in a phone call to check on the most French of living icons — ailing rocker Johnny Hallyday. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - UN climate chief Yvo de Boer on Friday said European plans to contribute billions of euros to early funding on tackling global warming were a major boost to the talks unfolding in Copenhagen. Full Story »

BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Union nations have agreed to give 7.2 billion euros (10.6 billion dollars) to help developing nations tackle climate change, the Swedish EU presidency announced on Friday. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters Life!) - Got 48 hours to spare in the Danish capital of Copenhagen amid the world leaders, scientists, demonstrators and skeptics in town this December to discuss measures for confronting global climate change? Full Story »

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU nations are set to give more than six billion euros (nine billion dollars) to help the developing world tackle climate change in the next three years, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday. Full Story »