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The new head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, on Monday held talks here on future cooperation with Nigeria, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant with Russian assistance.
Several developing countries temporarily withdrew their co-operation for negotiations at the UN climate summit on Monday, BBC News reported.Some nations felt the Danish host government attempted to sideline talks on more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.Speaking for developing countries, the G77-China bloc, said the Danish hosts had violated democratic process, as other delegates talked ...
( Stanford University ) Stanford scientist Noah Diffenbaugh uses a very high-resolution computer model to forecast the impact of climate change on US wine and corn production.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 / Christian Newswire / -- As the House of Representatives prepares to vote, Christian leaders representing millions of Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and other Christians sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging immediate passage of sanctions on Iran intended to prevent that rouge regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that a U.N. panel looking into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto needed more time to complete its investigation.
The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off its two-week run on Monday. Here is a quick look at what's been going on in Copenhagen this week, courtesy of Demotix Images .
An activist dressed as polar bear appears among others as they stage a protest at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, on behalf of humans who are being hit hard by climate change. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration's nearly yearlong effort to engage Iran has fallen short and new sanctions are needed to press the Iranian leadership to come clean about its suspect nuclear program.
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He’s the laureate who says he doesn’t deserve the award. He’s not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
Copenhagen - Irate African delegates forced a suspension in Monday's round of climate change talks in Copenhagen amid a trading of accusations between rich and poor countries over how to slow global warming. The African boycott of official United Nat...
By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger UPDATE: Negotiations stalled today in Copenhagen when African nations walked out in protest of perceived attempts by rich nations...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn’t believe him.
With winter settling in, residents are preparing closets by packing away summer clothes and un-packing warm, winter ones. This is also the best time to start thinking about getting vehicles ready for the cold months ahead.
The international community must negotiate targets for new, significant, predictable, and stable finance to support developing countries’ transition to low-carbon economies.
On November 18, Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected a proposal that his country should export some 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad.
The Obama approach to world politics--engage, apologize, avoid friction, be humble, reach out to previously scorned tyrannical regimes--is being criticized nowadays on pragmatic grounds. A record of 10 months shows this modest approach has brought modest if any returns. Low costs, the president's defenders argue, and low risks, so it has been worth trying, even if the gains have been small.
Remember that old Mac Davis song, "Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble"? I was ten at the time of its release in 1980.
COPENHAGEN, 14 December 2009 (IRIN) - Should there be an international insurance facility to help poor countries alleviate the impact of climate-related risks? Should they be compensated for losses to their developmental goals by slow-onset events like droughts? These were among the tougher debates at the final week of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN -- African nations' bid today to force rich nations to take new emission pledges has thrown the United Nations' cl...
It sounds harmless enough, the news that the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen early next month.
