The world has descended on Copenhagen – or it certainly feels that way.
UN climate talks have made progress at the halfway mark but many of the toughest issues are deadlocked, delegates said on Saturday.
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.
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.
European leaders promised on Friday to provide developing countries with €7,3-billion to try to win their support for a climate-change deal.
This week, as world leaders gather in Copenhagen to craft a climate-change treaty, Africans are watching keenly for concrete actions.
A major rift surfaced at UN climate talks on Wednesday between emerging giants and countries most exposed to the ravages of global warming.
Climate talks in disarray barely days into the Copenhagen summit, putting at risk international unity to fight global warming.
Rich nations at the Copenhagen climate summit should commit -billion a year in new money to help Africa tackle the consequences of global warming.
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.
President Jacob Zuma has had an 11th-hour change of mind and will attend the Copenhagen summit on climate change.
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.
Since the end of the last ice age, we humans have spent 400 generations taking advantage of the stable climate to build our civilisation.
A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries.
China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to climate talks.
Barack Obama is leading a ”significant” change in US policy towards global warming, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore says.
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.
