Emission targets set at Helsinki summit
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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European Union leaders opened a two-day summit on Thursday aimed at thrashing out a landmark accord to fight climate change despite divisions over the best way to choke off greenhouse gases.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is to visit Helsinki next Tuesday and Wednesday, scheduled to meet Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) and President Tarja Halonen (soc dem), the Finnish government ...
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The United Nations says momentum is building for broader long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial test.
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LONDON, Nov 18  - The leaders of France and Britain pledged Thursday to make reducing global warming a priority when London presides over the Group of Eight nations and the European Union next year.
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HELSINKI, Finland - European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to keep cutting greenhouse gases after the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
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The Kyoto accord takes effect this week, with  new obligations to reduce greenhouse gases. For the plan to work, here's what Europe must do
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At the meeting of the world's biggest polluters in Hawaii this week, host US has a chance to show it is serious about action on climate change.
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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Steam and smoke rise from cooling towers on the outskirts of Moscow, Friday, Oct. 22, 2004. Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming Friday, moving the sweeping environmental
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European leaders are set to commit their countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a European Union summit focused on energy and the climate.Comment
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PARIS, March 9 -- European Union leaders agreed Friday to take the 27-country bloc beyond the targets of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, agreeing to legally binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy.
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European Union leaders agreed Thursday to establish binding targets for renewable energy, but they put off the issue of how to achieve them, Sweden's premier said.Comment
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The European Commission is to detail wide-ranging proposals for achieving its goals on climate and energy.
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The world&#39;s two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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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.