US rejects climate policy attacks
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The US defends its decision not to sign up to the Kyoto climate change treaty with an attack on Europe's record.
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European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions, Germany's environment minister said Thursday.
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The Bush administration played down the U.S. contribution to world climate change on Friday and called for a "global discussion" after a U.N. report blamed humans for much of the warming over the past 50 years.
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The United States showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto protocol Monday as U.N. climate change talks began, a month after President Bush's reelection and Russia's ratification of the agreement.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States offered reassurance on Wednesday that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts but ruled out agreeing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a G8 summit.
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The United States on Friday rejected  North Korea's demands for direct talks over its nuclear weapons  program and insisted on six-party negotiations.
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The US rejects the UN's nuclear watchdog's call for a "timeout" over Iran's nuclear programme.
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THE US stood firm in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming yesterday despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
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VIENNA, Sep 4 (IPS) - Despite its new willingness to participate in a  UN-monitored regime for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,  the U.S. government continues to oppose legally binding caps.
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A climate conference opened on Tuesday to renewed concern about the worsening threat of global warming and appeals from Britain to its ally, the United States, not to stand on the sidelines.
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The European Union's all-encompassing approach to the problem of climate change will not work, a Bush administration official says.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The European Union and  the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day  of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington  resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming  after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
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A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
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The United States is lining up with China, India and the world's other biggest polluters in opposition to mandatory cuts in Earth-warming greenhouse gases sought by the United Nations and European countries.
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The United States, which refused to participate in a United Nations-backed global plan to slow global warming, said on Tuesday it will spend nearly &#36;5.8 billion in 2005 on research and programs addressing climate change.
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Tree-noshing beetle plague in rainless Belize as NASA predicts more rain US President G W Bush, previously renowned for his resistance to carbon-emissions control, yesterday appeared to execute a policy U-turn.â¦