EU, Asia Set 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
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Climate change, energy, closer trade ties and North Korea's nuclear weapon's program will be high on the agenda at talks starting Monday among European Union and Asian foreign ministers.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to keep cutting greenhouse gases after the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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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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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - U.N. talks in Bali headed for a deal on Saturday to launch negotiations on a global pact by 2009 to fight climate change after the EU and the United States ended a dispute over greenhouse gas curbs.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement on rough targets aimed at getting some of the worldâs biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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The Kyoto Protocol has finally been given the green light and will become a binding treaty on February the 16th. The finalisation of the United Nations&#39; environmental accord, which is designed to combat global
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The European Union will try to cement its leadership role in the fight against climate change at a summit starting Thursday, with plans to set tough targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
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EU nations must back plans to cut emissions by 30% by 2020 or risk jeopardising future global climate efforts, ministers warn.
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European Union leaders pressed other trading powers on Friday to move to wrap up more than five years of global trade talks, making clear the EU would also pursue the option of bilateral deals with Asian partners.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - Japan blocked European Union efforts on Tuesday to set a 2009 deadline for agreement on an international pact to battle climate change once the Kyoto Protocol on reducing carbon emissions expires in 2012.
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BALI, Indonesia  -- The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases, the German environment minister said.
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VIENNA - Industrial nations agreed yesterday to consider stiff goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a step toward a new global climate treaty to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020. About 1,000 delegates at a United Nations climate conference set a nonbinding guideline that would cut emissions to between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels. Officials from 158 nations ...
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China said on Tuesday it will not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming.
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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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European countries hurled down a challenge at a UN summit on climate change here Monday, calling for the world to set a goal of halving greenhouse-gas pollution by 2050.
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The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn&#39;t take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.