Slow progress on UN climate curbs
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The UN climate talks remain deadlocked on emissions cuts, as the US and EU battle over key language.
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A landmark U.N. plan to curb global warming comes into force next week despite a U.S. pullout and with many countries way off course to meet promised cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2012.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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Many efforts to curb climate change pay little attention to conservation or the world's poor, a think-tank warns.
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A United Nations conference ended today with a vague plan for informal new talks on how to slow global warming, but without a US commitment to multilateral negotiations on next steps, including emissions controls.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: After six months in the job, the UN secretary general should be taking the lead, but his record so far is underwhelming.
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Members of the United Nations on Saturday set down a roadmap for two years of negotiations leading to a new worldwide pact that would roll back the peril of global warming.
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To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Global efforts to avoid tens of millions of preventable deaths by reducing tobacco use have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday there had been &quot;slow but credible&quot; progress towards peace in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur over the past six months.
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The science is clear and the time short, but the political will is lacking to confront global warming, the U.N. secretary-general said Tuesday.
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The nations expressed concern about climate change but did not agree on a common strategy for curbing emissions.
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BERNE, Switzerland  - World soccer's governing body FIFA lags behind other international sports organizations when it comes to protecting the environment at major tournaments, the head of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) says.
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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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More than 100 nations struggled yesterday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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But the tougher work of cutting greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol remains.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former Vice President Al Gore urged delegates here tonight to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate agreement ...