Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals
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Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for "dangerous" climate change.
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While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action
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Italy's power and industrial plants face an uncertain start to 2005, as delays to its national carbon emissions plan will force producers to start the new year without their emission limits for the coming 12 months.
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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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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them
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Industrial nations agreed to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases on Friday in a small step towards a new climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
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Europeans push for explicit 25-40% carbon cuts by 2020, but US resists
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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China promised on Monday to integrate climate change policy into its industrial and energy sectors, but said it would not cave in to international pressure over global warming by sacrificing economic growth.
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The world's leading industrial   countries are enjoying strong growth but face the risk of   rising inflationary expectations, tight energy markets and   spreading protectionism, a draft communique of the Group of   Seven rich nations says.
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Despite a positive mood at international talks on climate change, key nations were still dragging their feet, writes Roger Harrabin.
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Emerging economies are now big enough to help but not save Western giants.
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Most of the world's biggest gains won't happen here.
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The Jan. 1 abolition of trade quotas may not be as hard on textile and apparel makers in poor countries as many experts had thought.
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A BBC survey of 22 countries finds most people downbeat over the future of the international economy.
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Viewpoint: Global leaders still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda
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Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.