Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals
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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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Leaders from the world&#39;s major  industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on  global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they  meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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Data in the coming week are expected to reveal a more resilient industrial sector and a narrowing trade gap.
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Business & money: Â· Lack of strategy threatens stance on global talksÂ· Indecision over nuclear stopping green investment
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Business & money: Industry reluctant to make the ultimate sacrifice of speed and acceleration.
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The U.S. manufacturing sector will grow at a slower pace over the next two years than it did in 2006, according to a new report, as new clean-air rules for diesel engines, and continued weakness in the housing and auto industries, weigh on key industrial end markets.
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Italy's power and industrial plants face an uncertain start to 2005, as delays to its national carbon emissions plan will force producers to start the new year without their emission limits for the coming 12 months.
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Garment makers in poor countries have been dismayed over the upcoming abolition of trade quotas, but the outlook is not as bleak as many experts had thought.
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Viewpoint: Global leaders still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda
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China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy &#151; the world's No. 2 oil consumer &#151; but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.
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GENEVA: Major textile exporters China, Pakistan and India on Thursday stalled talks at the World Trade Organisation on assistance for smaller textile-producing developing countries likely to be affected by the end of import quotas next January, diplomats
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A soft landing for China&#39;s booming economy is not yet a sure thing, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, despite a raft of measures by Beijing to slow investment in overheated sectors.
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BERLIN, Nov 20  - The finance chiefs of the Group of 20 countries oppose &quot;abrupt changes&quot; in foreign exchange rates and oil prices and see a slight slowdown in economic growth next year, German Finance Minister Hans Eichel said Saturday.
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The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth next year slightly amid expectations that the U.S. and Chinese economies will not expand as strongly as previously thought.
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Industrial nations agreed a compromise at U.N. climate talks on Friday that stiff 2020 targets for greenhouse gas cuts would be useful pointers for future work on a new climate treaty, delegates said.
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A majority in Europe's biggest economies do not want limits on working hours, a Financial Times poll finds.
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Viewpoint: Global leaders  still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda