US Firms Look Ahead To Emissions Cuts Overseas
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On Thursday, as news was leaking out that Russia was likely to ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty, a group of US business executives was discussing climate policy as they lunched on chicken and avocado sandwiches in Washington&#39;s St.
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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 a document released by environmentalists.
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US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN.
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The Kyoto treaty on global climate change is set to be enacted next year over the opposition of the US, the world&#39;s biggest polluter.
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The White House unveiled a long-term strategy on climate change on Thursday, with plans to gather the countries that emit the most greenhouse gases and to cut tariff barriers to sharing environmental technology.
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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Forest-preservation pledges of $166 million this week could entice them to take part in a post-Kyoto climate deal.
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Industrial nations agreed on Friday to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change.
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Top coal-burning countries like the United States should start burying carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as a wider crackdown on greenhouse gases looks increasingly likely, according to a study.
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Canada will do its best to ensure that the United States and other major polluting nations currently outside the Kyoto climate change accord join a new global campaign to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Wednesday.
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The US may be willing to back an agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the prime minister says.
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Which companies are doing their part to help the environment?
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The United States, facing international criticism for its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, argued Tuesday it spends billions of dollars seeking new technologies to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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E.ON AG, Germany s biggest utility, plans to convert an oil-fired power station in the U.K. s south by the end of the decade to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and boost power supplies.
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Big energy companies are making major bets on Rocky Mountain oil shale as the United States looks for ways to reduce reliance on foreign countries for its oil supplies.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Two sets of Americans have come here to talk global warming: the United States, opposed to controls on carbon emissions, and a bloc of united states, from Maine to Delaware, that plan to impose them.
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The world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters -- including the United States and China -- sent envoys to the U.S. State Department on Thursday for discussions on climate change and what to do about it.