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Climate Talks Ending With Dispute Over Saving Kyoto

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations climate talks among more than 180 nations end today in Bangkok with envoys disputing whether the Kyoto accord, the only existing global climate- protection agreement, will be preserved in a new agreement. ...

From DANIEL TEN KATE AND ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  9 Oct 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  United Nations,  Yvo de Boer

British proposal would reduce CO2 emissions 18% by 2020

LONDON - Britain set out a nationwide plan yesterday to cut carbon emissions by 18 percent between now and 2020, with the most stringent reductions made by electricity generators and a push to develop wind, wave, and nuclear power. Energy Secretary Ed ...

From ROBERT HUTTON AND ALEX MORALES, Boston Globe,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Ed Miliband,  Greg Clark,  Simon Hughes

Italian Power Plants Occupied by Greenpeace Activists

July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Greenpeace activists occupied four Italian coal-fired power plants, demanding action from world leaders to stave off climate change on the opening day of a Group of Eight summit being hosted by Italy. At least 100 demonstrators ...

From ALEX MORALES AND GUY COLLINS, EcoEarth News,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Oceans Rising Faster Than UN Forecast, Scientists Say

June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Polar ice caps are melting faster and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected just two years ago, 10 universities said in a report suggesting that climate change has been underestimated. Global sea levels will ...

From ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  18 Jun 2009
Related Topics: University of Cambridge,  United Nations,  BP p.l.c.

World CO2 emissions growth keeps focus on coal, China

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- World carbon-dioxide emissions from energy use rose last year as China, India and Russia burned more coal, the most polluting of the major fuels, data compiled by BP Plc indicate. Fossil-fuel combustion in power plants, ...

From MATHEW CARR AND ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: BP p.l.c.,  Natural Resources Defense Council,  Tony Hayward

Protecting Forests Is Critical to Climate Solution, U.S. Says

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Protecting tropical forests and using land in ways that absorb greenhouse-gas emissions are “critical” to fighting climate change, the U.S. said. Funding to reduce logging rates should come from government and private sources, ...

From ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Climate Envoy Stern Says China Must Be 'in the Game

May 29 (Bloomberg) -- China is at the forefront of major developing nations that must help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in a new treaty to stem global warming, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said. The Asian nation, the world’s biggest producer of ...

From ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  United Nations,  Steven Chu,  U.S. House of Representatives

Chu says U.S. may accept climate target before China

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may accept targets for reducing its greenhouse gases in an international treaty even if China doesn’t, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. Initiative by the U.S. may be necessary because the two countries need to move ...

From ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Steven Chu,  Barack Obama,  John Kerry,  United Nations,  University of Cambridge

U.S. climate plan threatens EU goal for global accord

May 22 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union may have to scale back its goals to reduce global-warming emissions after a less- ambitious plan won initial approval in U.S. Congress. Lower targets ease costs for coal-burning utilities such as RWE AG of ...

From JONATHAN STEARNS AND ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  American Electric Power,  United Nations,  James Cameron

New Carbon-Emissions Market for China, India Proposed by EU

April 29 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union proposed a new carbon-trading market for developing countries such as China and India to give them financial incentives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that add to global warming. Less-developed nations ...

From ALEX MORALES, EcoEarth News,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  United Nations

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