Rights focus sought on climate
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Tackling climate change needs more attention to human rights, former Irish President Mary Robinson is to say.
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In the panoply of human rights, it isn&#39;t the first to trip off the tongue. But more than 150 delegates at an international conference yesterday urged that it should be.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium   Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened to overshadow Thursday's summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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People need to be encouraged to offset carbon emissions despite recent criticism of some schemes, say MPs.
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Delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants worked Thursday to advance discussions on how the world can combat global climate change.
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By BETH GORHAM  WASHINGTON (CP) - Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier's zealous drive to cast global warming as a human rights issue will have an airing Thursday at a commission of the Organization of American States.
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Environmental and development groups joined forces in warning here that global warming threatens to hit the world's poorest people hardest and magnify existing injustices.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Delegates to a United Nations climate conference discussed new ways to combat greenhouse emissions after the current agreement expires as nearly 200 countries continued meetings Thursday on the effort to limit a gradual rise of
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Return to wartime values and reduce emissions, say campaigners.
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Climate change is the greatest threat to global equality, Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the UN.
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A brief look at elements of climate change and the international agreements to deal with it:
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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Climate change is a matter of security and should be resourced accordingly, says the UK's climate envoy.
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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has targeted President Bush's handling of climate change.
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Green lobbyists and several U.S.  cities hope a lawsuit against U.S. development agencies will  force the government to act on global warming, even though  President Bush has long insisted there's no scientific proof  linking human activity to warming.
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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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WORKERS were urged today by the TUC to help tackle climate change by taking simple measures such as switching off computers and lights, reducing waste and walking or cycling to the office.  (c) 2006 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.