UN debate keys on rich nation emissions
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Envoys from India, China and other developing nations offered Wednesday to hold the line on their greenhouse gas emissions, but only as measured against the per-capita pollution produced by the United States and other richer nations.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, takes effect on Wednesday amid worries about its fairness.
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Climate experts and politicians  will discuss policies they believe may be needed beyond the Kyoto Protocol.
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HAMBURG, Germany, May 30 (IPS) - Developing countries led by China and India insist  on "differentiated" commitments in any future  arrangements to address climate change, arguing that the rich  countries bear a "bigger responsibility" to make deeper  cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations should formulate a concrete plan to tackle climate change at their summit this week, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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Ahead of the UN General Assembly annual session, nearly 50 world leaders and the United Nations on Monday raised concerns about the rising gap between rich and the poor, but disagreed with United States on the strategy to fight poverty.
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Gaps on how to confront emissions and Russia are unlikely to be closed at a meeting of the wealthy economies.
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European Union states debated how far they are willing to go to fight climate change on Tuesday as the 27-nation bloc forms what could become the world's most ambitious strategy to curb 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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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - India and China objected on Saturday to a draft deal at U.N. talks in Bali meant to launch negotiations on a global pact by 2009 to fight climate change, saying rich nations should do more to lead the way.
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PARIS, Aug. 31 -- A five-day U.N. conference on climate change ended in Vienna on Friday with significant disagreements remaining about how countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions and daunting estimates about the price tag for combating global warming.
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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UNITED NATIONS -- 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.The U.N.
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Tensions rose to the surface Saturday as China and developing nations including India raised objections to a hard-fought draft agreement at a UN conference on climate change.
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Kyoto replacement would set out firm emissions-reduction responsibilities for both richer and poorer nations.
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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.