APEC leaders agree climate change pact at summit
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Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but no binding targets, and are expected to end their summit on Sunday urging a conclusion to world trade talks.
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Australia's conservative, anti-Kyoto prime minister has pushed climate change to the top of the agenda for this week's APEC forum. But can the U.S. and China be brought onboard this time?
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The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries have reached an agreement with China that will lead to the creation of the world&#39;s largest free trade zone.
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Australia's prime minister calls for a new way forward on climate change as Apec talks begin in Sydney.
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China's President Hu Jintao gave qualified support on Thursday to Australia's initiative on climate change, as a rift opened at APEC's meetings over the "Sydney Declaration" and targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
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Australia's leader urged his Pacific Rim counterparts on Sunday to forge a new agreement on climate change &#151; one that would reject binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions in favor of voluntary goals.
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High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action.
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Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. SANTIAGO, Chile -- (Via PLDT) -- Pacific Rim leaders ended their two-day summit late Sunday
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Kyoto protocol on climate change - clearing the way for the treaty to come into force next year.
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Leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific nations are expected to call on Sunday for a final conclusion to world trade talks that have dragged on for six years, ending a two-day summit dominated by climate change and trade.
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Asia-Pacific leaders were set to sign a declaration on climate change on Saturday that aims to eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but sets no binding targets for that goal.
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ROSTOCK, Germany, June 7 -- Leaders of the eight largest industrialized nations agreed Thursday to join forces to make "substantial" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but at President Bush's insistence did not impose binding targets for the reductions.
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At a meeting of world leaders Monday, Ban Ki-moon said that the moment to act on climate change was now.
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President Bush urged Pacific Rim nations on Wednesday to band together on tackling global warming, saying all major polluters must be part of any solution. But finding consensus on the issue among Asian leaders at their annual summit has proven elusive.
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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