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Business needed to crack climate stalemate
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 says some at climate talks want to kill Kyoto
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
UN climate talks seek to define rich, poor duties
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
Action on global climate may drift for years
International action on climate change looks likely to drift over the next two years as politicians waver on tougher carbon caps.
Electric cars win hype, staying power questioned
Electric cars are riding high, as incentives and new models make them a realistic option, but the fresh attention may highlight flaws.
UN climate talks make little progress
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.
Brown says leaders must intervene in climate deal
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate-change deal.
EU chief confident climate deal will be reached
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.
Struggling solar firms look to public projects
John Fitzpatrick is in a buoyant niche of construction. Building subsidised homes with solar panelled roofs, he is funded by the government.
UN climate talks progress on poor nation aid
A UN conference made progress on Friday towards agreeing a fund to help poor nations cope with the impacts of climate change.
Market remedy to climate change stalls
The world’s biggest source of private sector investment to fight climate change in the developing world has stalled pending
Hit by fuel prices, which way will motorists turn?
With oil prices near a barrel, motorists are starting to look seriously at both alternative fuels and electric vehicles.
EU adopts blueprint for climate fight
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…
EU walks business tightrope in climate plans
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…
Bali climate talks advance despite squabbling
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…