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President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, officials said on Wednesday.
The president will pledge to cut CO2 emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
New Zealand's parliament Wednesday approved a scheme aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but critics immediately said it did not go far enough in the fight against global warming.
President Obama will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month and will commit the United States to reducing its production of greenhouse gases, the White House said Wednesday.
Washington Post: Growing Doubt on Global Warming, but Support Remains on Emission Curbs
The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening has dipped from 80 to 72 percent in the past year, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, even as a majority still support a national cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
Next month's climate summit in Copenhagen seeks to transform the way we run the planet, from the generation of energy, to the building of homes and cities, to the shaping of the landscape. It would also shift wealth from rich to poor countries in the process.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit. The president will attend the summit on Dec. 9 before heading t...
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Was Sen. James Inhofe right when he declared 2009 the year of the climate contrarian ? A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists--including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--while ...
Sen. James Inhofe told the Washington Times in a radio interview Monday that he will press for a probe into whether the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "cooked the science" to make global warming appear real.
Leaked e-mails exchanged among global warming scientists is part of a "smear campaign" to derail a U.N. climate summit, one scientist said.
As world governments prepare for a pivotal conference in Copenhagen next month to map future strategy to contain global warming, and the U.S. Congress debates legislation to reduce carbon emissions, evidence continues to accumulate that the threat is accelerating.
Slashing Carbon Emissions Would Reduce Heart, Lung Diseases, New Studies Show
The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, a figure that lies at the farthest range of expert predictions made only two years ago, scientists said on Tuesday.
The president is expected to travel to the United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo, Norway, to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.
US President Barack Obama boosted hopes on Tuesday of striking a landmark climate deal in Copenhagen, as a new report showed a deeper crisis than previously thought.
US Official: Obama to attend global climate summit in Copenhagen next month, discuss new pact
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Cutting the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming can be a boon to human health by reducing deaths from cancer, strokes and heart disease, The Lancet journal said.
The state is in the vanguard of addressing climate change, especially in light of slow national action and setbacks for global talks coming up in Copenhagen.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- China blamed a “lack of good faith” on the part of developed nations for hampering talks on a treaty to fight global warming less than two weeks before the start of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen.
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