UN climate chief rosy on 50pc gases cut
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The U.N. climate chief predicted Wednesday that the world will reach the goal of cutting greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 and said the U.S. economic slowdown should spur governments to take bolder action in confronting global warming.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - European heads of state have agreed to cut  greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from  1990 levels by the  year 2020.
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PARIS, Feb 15  French President Jacques Chirac called today for developed countries to cut gas emissions to a quarter of current levels by 2050 -- exceeding targets set by the Kyoto pact to combat ...
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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BONN, Feb 11 (IPS) - The coming into force of Kyoto Protocol Feb. 16 may  not be enough to combat global warming but it closes  ''a period of uncertainty'', says Joke  Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Rich nations should not have to cut emissions if they pay poor countries to do it on their behalf, a UN chief says.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Thursday to pursue "substantial" but unspecified cuts in greenhouse gases and pledged to reach a United Nations deal by 2009 on long-term measures to fight global warming.
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Science & environment: President's conference was not a spoiler intended to undermine UN efforts, says US secretary of state.
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VIENNA - Industrial nations agreed yesterday to consider stiff goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a step toward a new global climate treaty to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020. About 1,000 delegates at a United Nations climate conference set a nonbinding guideline that would cut emissions to between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels. Officials from 158 nations ...
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said  on Thursday the world is on the cusp of "the age of green  economics" and called on nations to cooperate to fight global  warming and promote the transformation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday the world is on the cusp of "the age of green economics" and called on nations to cooperate to fight global warming and promote the transformation.
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European Union leaders seeking tougher action to curb climate change clinched a deal Thursday on a 20 per cent unilateral cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels - but remained split on ...Comment
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a one-day high-level meeting on climate change on Monday was a turning point in the battle against global warming.
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The government has welcomed a UN report on global warming as highlighting the real threat posed by climate change, and warned of a &quot;closing window of opportunity&quot; for taking action.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says global warming poses at least as big a threat to the world as war.
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The top U.N. official for the environment asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to convene an emergency international summit to combat global climate change, an official said, joining a growing chorus of world leaders and scientists calling for urgent action to cut greenhouse gases.