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Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
Hopes suddenly rose Friday that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations attending a Commonwealth summit here offered to pay poorer countries to help seal the deal.
World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
Commonwealth nations Friday joined forces with European and UN leaders Friday to push for a deal to tackle global warming and overcome last-minute haggling threatening to scupper climate talks.
Leaders of the Commonwealth's two billion people and the UN chief joined Friday to push for a deal at upcoming climate talks to save the planet from catastrophic global warming.
The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
Beijing's decision to bring targets on carbon emissions reductions to Copenhagen is hopeful, but it is important to understand what exactly Beijing is promising -- and what it's not
Leaders of the two-billion-strong Commonwealth and the UN on Friday opened a summit pushing the rest of the world to strike a deal to save the planet from catastrophic climate change.
Heads of Commonwealth nations and the United Nations opened an unprecedented summit Friday aimed at strengthening the debate on global warming 10 days ahead of Copenhagen talks.
Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said.
Pledges by the U.S. and China for emissions reductions still seem timid to many experts.
A new study suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet, which holds about five times as much ice as West Antarctica and Greenland combined, is in decline
Having vowed US climate action, President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen needing to perform a delicate balancing act between huge expectations and the reality of a reluctant Congress.
World leaders sought on Friday to spur on the global-warming debate ahead of a Copenhagen climate conference that has been fired up by pledges from China and the United States to cut emissions.
While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders in the state that leads the nation in greenhouse gas production are watching closely — and objecting loudly.
Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the savior of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good, according to new evidence.
China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday.
Global warming is giving French vintners a new potential headache: In a few years, champagne could be going head-to-head with British bubbly.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said they will seek an international tax on financial transactions with proceeds going to an environmental fund.
Chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says stolen e-mails do not damage the credibility of findings that humans are to blame for global warming.
A partner of anti-poverty group Christian Aid released a report Friday that calculates for the first time the “unavoidable cost” of climate change in Africa – both in relation to finances and to people.
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