Africa 'makes excuses on climate'
64824
African governments are failing to act to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai says.
514706
Climate scientists tell a Stockholm conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
351949
Research suggests that the sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.
415063
The world&#39;s chief climate scientist on Tuesday disputed the US government contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to check global warming.
237721
The UK is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just to try to avert it.
314405
Prime Minister Tony Blair warns that the world cannot ignore the global threat posed by climate change.
216352
Climate change threatens to undo the world's attempts to eradicate poverty, a coalition of aid agencies warn.
144239
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to say Thursday that the time for excuses on Africa was over as he chairs a meeting in Ethiopia he hopes will turn the continent's problems into a global priority.
131104
A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
448035
Africa is being damaged by greenhouse gas pollution from developed nations and must sell carbon credits to grow in a "green fashion," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit on Thursday.
704901
Norway, which likes to promote itself as environmentally responsible, does not practice what it preaches, an academic article in a European journal alleges.
208939
Research suggests that the Sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.
113644
The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
54302
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, Monday spoke against widespread practices, such as forest farming, that, she says, are responsible for deforestation in her country.
478407
The world&#39;s chief climate scientist disputed yesterday the US government&#39;s contention that cutbacks in carbon-dioxide emissions are not warranted to slow global warming.
738809
In terms of climate change, the weather matters a lot less than how people respond to it.
452334
PARIS, Jul 13 (IPS) - While oil profits have flooded into countries such  as Angola and Nigeria in recent decades, some African observers  see new potential for the continent in the form of increasingly  in-demand biofuels.