UN: climate change may cost $20 trillion
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Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
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The United States, which refused to participate in a United Nations-backed global plan to slow global warming, said on Tuesday it will spend nearly &#36;5.8 billion in 2005 on research and programs addressing climate change.
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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.
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Damage done by Asia's tsunami gives a clearer idea of the danger climate change poses to small islands, which fear rising seas will submerge them as the world warms, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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UN findings name human activity as 'very likely' cause of 'unequivocal' climate change.
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An international report giving greater certainty to global warming will shift the debate in Congress from what's causing climate change to the economics of who will pay to confront it.
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The world must act against natural disasters as well as climate change , the United Nations says.
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By Dan Vergano  The human and economic cost of global warming will move to center stage when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the second and third installments of its report this spring, experts say.
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Delegates at a U.N. climate conference have agreed to include forest conservation in any future discussions about a new global warming pact, paving the way for billions of dollars in new spending to attack illegal logging, officials said.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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The U.N. climate panel issued its toughest warning yet on Friday that human activities are to blame for global warming and said that temperatures are set to rise sharply this century.
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China's first plan for climate change will seek to fortify the country against damage from global warming but also against international pressure to cut greenhouse gas pollution that Beijing calls the cost of growth.
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Although saved last week with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
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The U.N. climate panel agreed its strongest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.
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As the UN climate conference meets in Argentina, a new report questions the economic sense in tackling greenhouse gases so vigorously now.
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
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Damage to the environment could soon pass a point of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.