Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals
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Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for "dangerous" climate change.
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Sugar-producing developing countries and Finland hope for a more moderate reform of the sugar market than hitherto proposed.
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THE US and the EU are not backing the move by some least developed countries (LDCs) to stall the abolition of apparels&#39; export quota regime slated for January 1, next year.
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Fuel standards will likely be achievable but won't encourage innovation.
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Continued robust expansion in developing countries will help offset a slowdown in the United States this year amid concerns of a possible recession in the world's largest economy
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions
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The nations expressed concern about climate change but did not agree on a common strategy for curbing emissions.
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Italy's power and industrial plants face an uncertain start to 2005, as delays to its national carbon emissions plan will force producers to start the new year without their emission limits for the coming 12 months.
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Europeans push for explicit 25-40% carbon cuts by 2020, but US resists
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 8 (IPS) - The Group of Eight industrialised countries suffered a setback Friday in its plan to strengthen intellectual property rights through &quot;promoting innovation - protecting innovation&quot; when the five developing world&#39;s leaders -- China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico -- forced a key change in the final statement.
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China, Japan and North America will pull the global economy forward over the next two years despite headwinds thrown up by high oil prices and tenacious deficits, the OECD said Tuesday.
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A recovery in the world economy is still on track, central bankers from the world's 10 most-industrialised nations said.
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The current recovery of the global economy is dampened by risks that could give rise to financial and exchange-rate instability and to a slowdown in growth, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned Thursday.
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Viewpoint: Global leaders  still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda
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The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth next year slightly amid expectations that the US and Chinese economies will not expand as strongly as previously thought.
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The world's leading industrial  countries are enjoying strong growth but face the risk of  rising inflationary expectations, tight energy markets and  spreading protectionism, a draft communique of the Group of  Seven rich nations says.