CLIMATE CHANGE:  UN Goes 'Climate Neutral'
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Dec 12 (IPS) - The United Nations announced Wednesday it is  joining the growing worldwide effort to go "climate  neutral", an acronym for reducing or offsetting any  greenhouse gases.
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The science is clear and the time short, but the political will is lacking to confront global warming, the U.N. secretary-general said Tuesday.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading scientific society warns.
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Bush administration officials set out Friday to convince the world it can cool the Earth with voluntary "processes," more cooperation and fewer barriers to trade among the U.S., China and other major polluters, contrary to the U.N.'s mandatory approach to global warming.
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BONN, Feb 11 (IPS) - The coming into force of Kyoto Protocol Feb. 16 may  not be enough to combat global warming but it closes  ''a period of uncertainty'', says Joke  Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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UN climate talks in Bali appear to be heading for a compromise deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Dec 12 (IPS) - Whereas traditional rhetoric and diplomatic  gimmicks characterise the official UN climate change conference,  some of the environment activists are drawing the focus for their  witty and irreverent take on Saudi Arabia and major  industrialised countries.
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While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action
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A comparison of the climate debate in 1992 and now shows few differences.
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&quot;The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army nor advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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Delegates at the UN summit in Bali agree a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling.
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A U.N. conference ended early Saturday with a vague plan for informal new talks on how to slow global warming but without a U.S. commitment to multilateral negotiations on next steps, including emissions controls.
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VIENNA, Aug 28 (IPS) - Human-made emissions of greenhouse gases believed  to provoke damaging climate change must peak in the next 10 to 15  years, and be reduced afterwards by well over 50 percent from  current levels until 2050, a top UN climate official said here  Tuesday.
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The 12-day United Nations conference on climate change that began in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on December 6 assumes significance for several reasons.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon first approached President Bush at the White House in January to muster support for a U.N. climate-change initiative, the president's response was cool: An impatient Bush reminded Ban that he did not want to restrain U.S. industries, and that...
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A compromise deal with the US for a new international climate change agenda was agreed at the UN summit in Bali today