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Insured losses from Thai floods are still be counted and the disaster could lead to a re-assessment of weather risks to industries in Asia.
Ministers from around the world began on Wednesday a final push for a UN deal to protect nature.
Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animals species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, a report said on Friday.
Sea levels are rising unevenly in the Indian Ocean, placing millions at risk along low-lying coastlines in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at Copenhagen.
Ministers strived to break a deadlock in global climate talks on Tuesday, three days before world leaders are meant to agree a new pact.
The biggest climate meeting in history opened on Monday with hosts Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was ”within reach”.
Targets and trust. These are at the heart of a tougher new global climate pact possibly just weeks away.
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Poorer countries’ efforts to fight climate change are being stymied by rich nations’ lack of commitment, the UN said on Thursday.
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol.
Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in Bangkok, the UN said on Friday.
Delegates at the start of marathon climate talks in Thailand on Monday were told that the world expects action as they struggle to break the deadlock.
More than half of the colonies of Antarctica’s penguins face decline or being wiped out if the world warms by two degrees Celsius, says a new report.
The world’s biggest polluters agreed on Wednesday on the need for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but held back from setting specific targets.
If farmers think they have a tough time producing enough rice, wheat and other grain crops, global warming is going to present a whole new world of challenges in the race to…
A grouping of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters on Sunday backed United Nations-led efforts to forge a global pact to fight climate change but disagreed on a sectoral…
Nearly 200 nations agreed at United Nations-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a reversal by the United States…
The European Union took a veiled swipe at the United States at climate talks in Bali on Tuesday over Washington’s efforts to remove 2020 emissions guidelines for rich nations…
Every year since 2000, the water level of Bali’s Lake Buyan has been falling, leaving many locals puzzled. Some believe deforestation in the surrounding mountains is to blame,…
