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If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? We would be stronger, more innovative and more energy independent.
The federal plan would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17% by 2020.
COPENHAGEN (AP) — The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday.
COPENHAGEN -(Dow Jones)- The more than 190 countries negotiating an accord to limit global warming at the Copenhagen summit are making good progress, especially in the area of technology to fight climate change in developing countries, the United Nations climate chief said Thursday.
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.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented a united front Thursday, agreeing that executive bonuses should be taxed more ahead of the European Union's first streamlined summit.
The leak of a so-called “Danish text” that would sideline the U.N. in future climate deals is reverberating around the Copenhagen negotiations. Today I witnessed an unexpected and extraordinary outburst of candor from one of the key players in these negotiations – Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator of the G77 bloc of mostly poor countries.
Brussels - European Union leaders hope to give UN climate talks in Copenhagen a boost on Thursday with an offer of billions of euros to help developing countries deal with global warming. The EU has quantified the amount of immediate worldwide fundin...
COPENHAGEN | The United States 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. U.S. chief negotiator Todd Stern urged China to "stand behind" its promise to slow the growth of the country's carbon output and make the declaration part ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants his country to take the lead in the fight against global warming. He is pushing through a radical and unpopular plan to tax individual households according to their carbon footprint. But the new measure has many seeing red, not green.
For the last ten years, Spain has said all the right things about controlling its carbon emissions in the face of the looming climate crisis. It has even taken concrete action: A new law demands every new house in Spain must have a solar water heater. The country also has made massive investments in solar power plants, wind farms and public transport. However in the last ten years Spain's carbon ...
The industrial world has set a goal of preventing the global average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, that's 3.6 Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels. That number will be discussed a lot during the global warming talks in Copenhagen.
FATALLY FLAWED "Ultimately the whole case for a Copenhagen treaty rests on the projections of the computer models relied on by the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC). These show that, as CO2 levels continue to rise, so temperatures must follow, leading inexorably to catastrophe - unless mankind takes the most drastic action to cut down on its emissions of CO2 ...
COPENHAGEN (AP) -- The United States for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both President Barack Obama's administration and the U.S. Congress to reduce greenhouse emissions.
What to expect from Copenhagen.
Cornelius discusses energy resources and questions the EPA stance on greenhouse gases.
We saw it coming -- or should have.
The United States supports taking "early action" to liberalize trade in products that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes that could spur progress in broader world trade talks on environmental goods and services, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
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.
WOODSTOCK - The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark isn't the only place in the world where global warming is a hot topic of conversation this week.
CSA Group, consisting of CSA Standards, CSA International and OnSpeX, today announces that it has achieved carbon neutrality for its entire global corporate operations. Headquartered in Toronto, CSA Group has offices and laboratories across North America as well as in Europe and Asia.
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