U.N. climate talks stagnate despite public worries
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Governments are making scant progress toward extending a U.N. pact to fight global warming despite mounting public concern about climate change and U.N. warnings it poses a threat as great as war, experts say.
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The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.
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World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.
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The science is clear and the time short, but the political will is lacking to confront global warming, the U.N. secretary-general said Tuesday.
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Negotiators worked into the final night of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. Argentine organizers said they were optimistic about a compromise.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Negotiators at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over emissions goals after the European Union accused the United States of blocking progress at the 190-nation meeting.
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The Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming has been in limbo since 2001, when the United States rejected it outright, for valid reasons.
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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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Two weeks of negotiations at a United Nations conference here on climate change ended early Saturday with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow
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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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Scientists and government officials are falling far behind in their attempts to come up with an authoritative report on global warming &#151; but not because of major disagreements among more than 100 nations and dozens of scientists.
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The European Union and the United States continued to clash Tuesday on the future of climate change negotiations once the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012, ahead of ministerial-level talks here.
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The Kyoto Protocol that aims to slow down global warming takes effect but the US remains outside it.
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By Mary Milliken BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - U.N. talks on climatechange ended Saturday with few steps forward as the UnitedStates, oil producers and developing giants slammed the brakeson the European Union's drive for deeper emissions cuts to stopglobal warming.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which aims to slow down global warming, takes effect, but the US remains outside it.
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Despite forecasts that show no end to rising demand for crude over the coming decades, oil-producing nations are casting an uneasy eye on the growing number of measures being taken to tackle climate change.
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Despite a positive mood at international talks on climate change, key nations were still dragging their feet, writes Roger Harrabin.