Japan, Denmark set new climate goals
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The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries ...Comment
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Japan took over the presidency of the Group of Eight club of the world's leading economies Tuesday, with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vowing to put a focus on climate change and environmental issues.
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Amid fanfare marking the enactment of the Kyoto global warming pact, leading proponents laid out their next goals Wednesday: persuading the United States to join the world crackdown on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases and planning further steps when the current agreement runs out in 2012.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed a breakthrough in the fight against climate change on Friday after proposing a European Union summit compromise to set a binding target for renewable fuels.
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Asia-Pacific leaders were set to sign a declaration on climate change on Saturday that aims to eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but sets no binding targets for that goal.
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Industrial nations agreed on Friday to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change.
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As world leaders search for ways to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Lars G. Josefsson says he has already found the solution.
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Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks Friday that reflected the countries' warmer ties
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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HAMBURG, Germany -- 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, diplomats said Tuesday.
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Japan and Canada should link up to the European Union market for greenhouse gases as the best way to meet their pledges under a U.N. scheme for fighting global warming, a leading analyst said on Friday.
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PARIS, March 9 -- European Union leaders agreed Friday to take the 27-country bloc beyond the targets of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, agreeing to legally binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy.
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Trade and climate set to top agenda as German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to China and Japan.
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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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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said on Monday.
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HELSINKI, Finland - European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to keep cutting greenhouse gases after the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.