UN welcomes Bush's climate plans
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A leading UN climate official welcomes US President George Bush's new climate change imitative.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The United States is the big odd man out as diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists from more than 190 countries gather here at the 10th meeting of the United Nations' Convention on Climate Change. The convention's Kyoto Protocol, with its mandatory reduction of &quot;greenhouse gases&quot; that cause global warming, goes into force next year. Discussions of new ...
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World leaders are set to take part in a special UN meeting in New York to discuss global warming.
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ESSEN, Germany  - President George W. Bush's plan to combat climate change got a cool reception in Europe on Friday where the European Union's environment chief dismissed it as unambitious and the "classic" U.S. line.
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ESSEN, Germany  - President George W. Bush's plan to combat climate change got a cool reception on Friday in Europe, where the European Union's environment chief dismissed it as unambitious and the "classic" U.S. line.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States offered reassurance on Wednesday that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts but ruled out agreeing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a G8 summit.
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President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.
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The United States showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto protocol on Monday as UN climate change talks began, a month after President
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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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President George W. Bush's plan to tackle climate change merely restates U.S. policy which has been ineffective in the past in cutting emissions blamed for global warming, the European Union said on Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon paid his first official visit to Washington last month, he received the White House version of a seal of approval: a presidential pat on the back and an invitation to phone President Bush whenever he needs help in responding to an international crisis.
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US President Bush welcomes congressional approval of a law allowing US exports of civilian nuclear fuel to India.
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Description: On Tuesday President Bush went before the UN General Assembly to deliver an defense of United States policy in Iraq. NPR&#39;s Tavis Smiley talks about the role of the UN with Nancy Soderberg, vice
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.
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BERLIN -- Days before hosting a Group of Eight summit that has already drawn violent protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said she welcomed President Bush's initiative on global warming but insisted it must fall within the framework of United Nations treaty negotiations. Merkel made the comments during a news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who concurred ...
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US ambassador to UN says White House is confident in the secretary general amid probes of Iraqi oil-for-food program.
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A U.N. conference on climate change opened on Monday with delegates looking for any change in U.S. opposition to the Kyoto protocol after President Bush's re-election and Russian ratification of the agreement.