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/ 13 December 2009
Tens of thousands of activists demanding a planet-saving climate deal blazed a path to the door of the UN talks on Saturday.
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/ 12 December 2009
UN climate talks have made progress at the halfway mark but many of the toughest issues are deadlocked, delegates said on Saturday.
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/ 12 December 2009
Major players fired the first shots in a three-way battle on climate change on Friday, wrangling over a document proposed as the blueprint of a pact.
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/ 12 December 2009
China on Friday attacked a top US envoy as ”extremely irresponsible” for saying at the Copenhagen summit that no US climate aid would go to China.
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/ 11 December 2009
European leaders promised on Friday to provide developing countries with €7,3-billion to try to win their support for a climate-change deal.
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/ 11 December 2009
The negotiating rooms in Copenhagen were thick with suspicion after the so-called Danish text was leaked this week.
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/ 10 December 2009
Floods, drought and pestilence are the stuff of Biblical stories, but if emissions continue, they could be the legacy we leave the next generat
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/ 10 December 2009
A major rift surfaced at UN climate talks on Wednesday between emerging giants and countries most exposed to the ravages of global warming.
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/ 9 December 2009
Climate talks in disarray barely days into the Copenhagen summit, putting at risk international unity to fight global warming.
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/ 8 December 2009
Rich nations at the Copenhagen climate summit should commit -billion a year in new money to help Africa tackle the consequences of global warming.
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/ 7 December 2009
SA has offered to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 2020, conditional on a broader international agreement and financial aid.
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/ 7 December 2009
Ensuring you get what you want out of an international negotiation is tricky. As Copenhagen begins, delegates will be preparing for battle.
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/ 4 December 2009
Nepal’s Cabinet met close to the base camp of Mount Everest on Friday to send a message on the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
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/ 4 December 2009
President Jacob Zuma has had an 11th-hour change of mind and will attend the Copenhagen summit on climate change.
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/ 4 December 2009
This thuggish petro-state is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
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/ 3 December 2009
A scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the danger of global warming says it would be better if the Copenhagen talks ended in collapse.
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/ 30 November 2009
Since the end of the last ice age, we humans have spent 400 generations taking advantage of the stable climate to build our civilisation.
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/ 29 November 2009
A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries.
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/ 26 November 2009
China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to climate talks.
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/ 26 November 2009
From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa.
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/ 26 November 2009
Barack Obama is leading a ”significant” change in US policy towards global warming, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore says.
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/ 25 November 2009
Next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen, seeks to transform the way the planet is run, from the production of energy to the building of homes.
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/ 24 November 2009
Global warming is happening faster than expected and at worst could raise sea levels by up to 2m by 2100, a group of scientists said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 November 2009
Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report.
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/ 23 November 2009
The UN’s top climate negotiator voiced optimism on Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming.
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/ 23 November 2009
European labour markets have seen employment gains since 2000 virtually wiped out by the economic crisis, an EU report said on Monday.
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/ 23 November 2009
East Antarctic sheet shedding 57-billion tonnes of ice a year and contributing to sea level rises, according to Nasa aerial survey.
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/ 21 November 2009
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, British energy secretary Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster.
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/ 18 November 2009
African demands for climate-change compensation and emission cuts by rich nations are unlikely to be met in next month’s Copenhagen summit.
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/ 18 November 2009
Global temperatures are on a path to rise by an average of 6C by the end of the century as CO2 emissions increase.
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/ 17 November 2009
Global warming is ”inextricably linked” to food security, Seychelles President James Michel said at the UN hunger summit on Monday.
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/ 16 November 2009
Environment ministers gathered in Copenhagen on Monday for a meeting aimed at preventing failure at next month’s conference on global warming.