The U.N.'s Hot Air on 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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By JOHN LEICESTER  PARIS - The bleak outlook of a major new report on climate change shifted the onus onto governments, even mankind, to take action, with dire warnings Friday from around the world that drastic, rapid change is needed - not least from the United States.
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Bush administration officials set out Friday to convince the world it can cool the Earth with voluntary "processes," more cooperation and fewer barriers to trade among the U.S., China and other major polluters, contrary to the U.N.'s mandatory approach to global warming.
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High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action.
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The 12-day United Nations conference on climate change that began in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on December 6 assumes significance for several reasons.
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The United Nations says momentum is building for broader long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial test.
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The authors of a U.N. panelâs report on climate change are being inundated with tweaks ahead of tomorrowâs release.
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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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The U.N. climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, adding pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming.
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a one-day high-level meeting on climate change on Monday was a turning point in the battle against global warming.
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With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
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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 planet isn't the only thing heating up because of climate change. Some renewable-energy stocks have been pretty hot, too.
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has not halted the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions and that governments must take "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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As the UN climate change talks conclude in Buenos Aires, debate has been gathering pace on two main issues: what happens after Kyoto and how to help developing countries best cope with global warming.