Nations skeptical about US climate talks
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A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming concerns.
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The United States is the big odd man out as diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists from more than 190 countries gather
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Despite a positive mood at international talks on climate change, key nations were still dragging their feet, writes Roger Harrabin.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 15 -- The United States, under a barrage of criticism from developing countries, agreed today to accept a framework for future climate change talks that would compel industrialized countries to provide measurable technological and financial aid to lesser-off nations if they...
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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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Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for "dangerous" climate change.
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UN talks on climate change ended Saturday with few steps forward as the United States, oil producers and developing giants slammed the brakes on the European
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By JOHN LEICESTER  PARIS - The bleak outlook of a major new report on climate change shifted the onus onto governments, even mankind, to take action, with dire warnings Friday from around the world that drastic, rapid change is needed - not least from the United States.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The European Union and  the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day  of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington  resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming  after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
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The world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters -- including the United States and China -- sent envoys to the U.S. State Department on Thursday for discussions on climate change and what to do about it.
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Environmental experts Friday welcomed a hint of a softening in US skepticism about global warming but saw little chance President Bush might
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The EU and the US are deadlocked over plans to begin talks about the future of emissions reduction.
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European nations on Thursday threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions at a U.N. conference here.
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The US looked likely to succeed on Friday night in blocking discussions on the next stage of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, to the chagrin of the European Union.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The United States  showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto  protocol Monday as U.N. climate change talks began, a month  after President Bush's reelection and Russia's ratification of  the agreement.
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The United States, considered an environmental laggard by its critics, is unlikely to sign any new pacts on climate change at a key environmental meeting this month, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
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A U.S.-sponsored meeting of the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters aims to support the U.N. process on climate change, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, but some participants and environmentalists were skeptical.