EU, Asia set 2009 climate pact deadline
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European and Asian foreign ministers agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said Tuesday.
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Asian and European leaders meeting in Helsinki were set to deliver a strong message to the world on what to do about global warming after the Kyoto Protocol on climate change runs out in 2012.
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Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to adopt a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
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European Union leaders clinched a landmark climate change accord on Friday cbut postponed the thorny task of setting mandatory renewable energy goals for each member country to meet.
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"United States does have serious concerns about other aspects of the decision as we begin the negotiations"  World climate negotiators set a 2009 deadline Saturday for a landmark treaty to fight global warming after two weeks of intense haggling led to a climbdown by an isolated United States. via New Straits Times
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Intensive diplomatic efforts to agree the elements of a framework by the end of the year for a new global climate change treaty are starting to make headway, according to a European official close to the ...Comment
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Europe expects to overcome a dispute with the United States blocking the launch of negotiations on a new climate treaty beyond 2012 at U.N. talks in Bali, Germany said on the final day on Friday.
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The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.
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Berlin- A deal on cutting carbon emissions will be the first of a series of difficult steps for European Union nations in the fight to tackle global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned in a ...Comment
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.
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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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European Union leaders seeking tougher action to curb climate change clinched a deal Thursday on a 20 per cent unilateral cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels - but remained split on ...Comment
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The European Union effectively set itself a deadline of late 2008 to end the institutional deadlock gripping it since last year, while insisting that reforms must continue in the meantime.
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Asia-Pacific nations, including China and the United States, will accept for the first time global goals to reduce emissions, according to a draft statement prepared for an APEC summit on Saturday.
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EU leaders are edging closer to a deal on binding targets for renewable energy use, sources in Brussels say.
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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