Asia and Europe fail to agree on climate change targets
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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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UN talks on climate change have ended with few steps forward after the United States, oil producers and developing giants slammed the brakes on the European
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Europe pressed Asia on Sunday to   address concerns about worker rights abuses as it grows into an   economic powerhouse and said the region must take a bigger role   in tackling global climate change.
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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Asia-Pacific leaders were expected to sign a landmark statement on climate change at their annual summit on Saturday, papering over differences between rich and developing nations over pollution targets.
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UN talks on climate change ended Saturday with few steps forward as the United States, oil producers and developing giants slammed the brakes on the European
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Despite a positive mood at international talks on climate change, key nations were still dragging their feet, writes Roger Harrabin.
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HAMBURG, Germany, May 30 (IPS) - Developing countries led by China and India insist  on "differentiated" commitments in any future  arrangements to address climate change, arguing that the rich  countries bear a "bigger responsibility" to make deeper  cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Australia said on Sunday the coming Asia-Pacific leaders' summit in Sydney, which will focus on global warming, would set no binding targets for greenhouse gas reduction but might agree on a post-Kyoto consensus.
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Usually derided as teetering "on the tip of irrelevance", this year's Asia-Pacific leaders' summit in Sydney hopes to rise above its reputation for glacial action and have a real impact on the course of climate change.
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The U.S. and Europe remained deadlocked on whether countries should commit now to specific emissions cuts.
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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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A six-nation alliance of big polluters drawing in China, Japan, the U.S. and India was not the answer to the search for a wider post-Kyoto pact to combat global warming, Britain's top climate diplomat said on Tuesday.
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Leaders from Asia and Europe pledged on Saturday to tackle everything from climate change to terrorism but dodged calling for the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of their two-day summit.
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
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SYDNEY - The much anticipated Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Sydney limped to a close yesterday, with a heavily compromised agreement on tackling climate change, few answers on how to push the global trade agenda forward, and a huge security operation that ended up a laughingstock.
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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.