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Evidence of green business profits and more direct industry engagement may be needed to push UN climate talks out of stale rich-poor rivalries.
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
Negotiators at UN talks in Mexico on Tuesday struggled over proposals that would abolish a two-decade divide between rich and poor on scrutiny of gree
International action on climate change looks likely to drift over the next two years as politicians waver on tougher carbon caps.
Electric cars are riding high, as incentives and new models make them a realistic option, but the fresh attention may highlight flaws.
Climate negotiators prepared to ditch a December deadline for agreeing a new pact as United Nations talks in Barcelona drew to a close on Friday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate-change deal.
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday he was confident the world would sign a global deal to combat climate change in December.
John Fitzpatrick is in a buoyant niche of construction. Building subsidised homes with solar panelled roofs, he is funded by the government.
A UN conference made progress on Friday towards agreeing a fund to help poor nations cope with the impacts of climate change.
The world’s biggest source of private sector investment to fight climate change in the developing world has stalled pending
With oil prices near a barrel, motorists are starting to look seriously at both alternative fuels and electric vehicles.
The European Union’s executive adopted landmark proposals on Wednesday that will make the 27-nation bloc a world leader in the fight against climate change, but trade-offs will…
The European Union’s exective commission fine-tuned a blueprint to slash the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions amid lobbying on Tuesday over details which environmentalists said…
A 190-nation climate meeting in Bali took small steps towards a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 on Tuesday amid disputes about how far China and India should curb…
A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1,6-billion people worldwide…
The United Nations climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, adding pressure on governments to do more to combat…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan launched a plan on Wednesday to help Africa fight global warming, and criticised a ”frightening lack of leadership” in confronting…
Saying billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk from global warming, Kenya urged a 189-nation conference on Monday to do more to fight climate change and help Africa.…
Will the spending needed to prevent global warming cost the world more than just sitting back, or even enjoying the possible financial benefits of a hotter planet? Economists are…
