Making EU climate goal 'unlikely'
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It is unlikely that the global temperature rise can be kept below the EU's target of 2C, a leading climate scientist says.
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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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A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
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BERLIN -- The United States rejects the European Union's all-encompassing target on reduction of carbon emissions, President Bush's environmental adviser said yesterday.
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The Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen (Centre Party) has come out strongly on the global warming issue, declaring that the European Unions targets of limiting the rise in temperature to 2 C cannot ...
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases
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The EU and the US are deadlocked over plans to begin talks about the future of emissions reduction.
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Businesses in the European Union will not be forced to reduce their carbon emissions by as much as previously thought because of &quot;short-sighted&quot; plans for the EU&#39;s carbon trading system, environmental group WWF said on Wednesday.
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As the UN climate conference meets in Argentina, a new report questions the economic sense in tackling greenhouse gases so vigorously now.
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European Union states debated how far they are willing to go to fight climate change on Tuesday as the 27-nation bloc forms what could become the world's most ambitious strategy to curb global warming.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - EU efforts to speed action on climate change took a blow on Tuesday when Japan refused to follow the EU line on how to establish a new international regime once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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European leaders, looking to set the pace in the race against global warming, consider tough new targets.
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The UK is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just to try to avert it.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- European leaders, angered by the growing impasse here over the U.S. refusal to accept any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, threatened Thursday to boycott the parallel climate negotiations that President Bush launched with great fanfare in...
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Europeans push for explicit 25-40% carbon cuts by 2020, but US resists
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EU institutions need to put their own house in order before claiming to be the global climate leader.