"Momentum building" for new climate deal: U.N.
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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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The U.N. conference seemed to be heading for an agreement on a future deal to reduce greenhouse gases, officials said Friday.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations should formulate a concrete plan to tackle climate change at their summit this week, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24--U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Monday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has failed to halt the buildup of greenhouse emissions and called for governments to undertake "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- International negotiators continued to meet around the clock here today, making some headway in their effort to forge a road map for achieving a new global climate pact by the end of 2009, including agreement on a deal to protect the world's tropical forests.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States offered reassurance on Wednesday that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts but ruled out agreeing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a G8 summit.
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Negotiators worked into the final night of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. Argentine organizers said they were optimistic about a compromise.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - U.N. 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 Union's drive for deeper emissions cuts to stop  global warming.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 15 -- Organizers of the international climate conference here presented an open-ended compromise proposal to delegates from 190 nations early Saturday in hopes of bridging disagreements over how to begin negotiating a new treaty to combat global warming.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday the world is on the cusp of "the age of green economics" and called on nations to cooperate to fight global warming and promote the transformation.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The United States  showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto  protocol Monday as U.N. climate change talks began, a month  after President Bush's reelection and Russia's ratification of  the agreement.
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The White House calls the results of the two-week U.N. climate conference in Bali "a critical first step," but says it does not sufficiently address the role of developing nations in the fight against global warming.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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Governments of almost 200 countries have agreed to speed the elimination of a major greenhouse gas that depletes ozone, U.N. and Canadian officials said Saturday, describing a deal they said was a significant step toward fighting global warming.
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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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Industrial nations agreed to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases on Friday in a small step towards a new climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.