U.N. agency pressures Ban on climate crisis summit
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The U.N. environment agency pressed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to call an emergency climate summit amid dire reports about the risks from global warming.
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A two-day conference of the worldâs major greenhouse-gas-emitting nations served to highlight how isolated the Bush administration is on the issue of global warming.
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European countries hurled down a challenge at a UN summit on climate change here Monday, calling for the world to set a goal of halving global greenhouse-gas pollution by 2050.
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An international panel of experts urged Washington on Monday to join other nations in a drive to avert the "ecological time bomb" of global warming.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is resisting calls from the European Union and developing nations to commit to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming, threatening progress on a new accord to fight climate change.
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UNITED NATIONS - The head of the Senate's Environment Committee called on the White House Friday to hold a summit grouping the 12 largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations.Sen.
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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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US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN.
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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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Rich nations are setting a bad example to the developing world by failing to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases under a landmark U.N. plan to curb global warning, the United Nations climate change chief said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said leaders attending this year's annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly opening Tuesday face more "daunting challenges" than ever before &#151; from global warming to ending the war in Darfur and promoting Mideast peace.
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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 United Nations conference looked to be heading for a landmark agreement on a deadline for negotiations to reduce the worldâs greenhouse gases, officials said.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon first approached President Bush at the White House in January to muster support for a U.N. climate-change initiative, the president's response was cool: An impatient Bush reminded Ban that he did not want to restrain U.S. industries, and that...
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A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
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The United Nations on Wednesday urged the international community to do more to fight global climate change as host Argentine President Nestor Kirchner indirectly took aim at foot-dragging by the United States.