U.S. drops opposition to U.N. climate deal
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - The United States on Saturday dropped opposition to a compromise plan to launch talks on a new U.N. climate treaty after pleas from other nations.
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Eight countries of the Arctic region have agreed to fight climate change effects in the region, but refused to take any new measures out of deference to the Bush administration.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Nearly 200 nations agreed at U.N.-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a reversal by the United States allowed a historic breakthrough.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon conceded Wednesday that the United States had succeeded in achieving one of its key objectives at the climate conference here, blocking a proposal that called on industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40...
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Not all Americans are unpopular at this week's U.N. conference on climate change.
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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 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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A climate conference overcomes last-minute objections to approve a deal on future talks global warning.
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An deal is reached at the UN climate summit, but without specific targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - 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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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 comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.
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The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to the meeting.
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The United States has reiterated its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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Although saved last week with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any new steps to counter global warming out of deference to the Bush administration.
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Under the deal, President Bush dropped his demand that Congress redefine the nationÂs obligations under the Geneva Conventions.