UN talks set goal of 2009 for new pact on climate change
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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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A U.N. conference ended early Saturday with a vague plan for informal new talks on how to slow global warming but without a U.S. commitment to multilateral negotiations on next steps, including emissions controls.
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After more than a decade of diplomacy to create a global pact for reducing greenhouse gases, humanity will soon see if it can successfully reduce carbon dioxide emissions and curb its contribution to global warming.
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Negotiators worked into the final night of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. Argentine organizers said they were optimistic about a compromise.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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President warned that talks on climate change must take place within a UN framework.
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Cows and sheep grazing in fields, joggers' shoes or even the kitchen fridge could all be targeted under a new U.N. pact meant to rein in global warming.
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A compromise deal with the US for a new international climate change agenda was agreed at the UN summit in Bali today
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.
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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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Bloomberg - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Negotiators expect to reach a compromise on climate-protection talks after working through Friday night, the United Nations official organizing the conference said.
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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 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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to get talks rolling for after 2012, when the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases runs out. protocol last month, allowing the treaty to take effect in February with a seven-year delay.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- International negotiators continued to meet around the clock here today, making some headway in their effort to forge a road map for achieving a new global climate pact by the end of 2009, including agreement on a deal to protect the world's tropical forests.
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The treaty that will eventually replace the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could be a potpourri of legal obligations, nonbinding commitments and aid arrangements for the developing world, but each nation should choose its own course, the U.N.'s top climate official said Thursday.
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BUENOS AIRES  - Participants at a UN climate change conference agreed to hold informal international talks in Bonn in May on future efforts to fight global warming.