Rich must pay bulk of climate change bill: Oxfam
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Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
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Oxfam urges Tony Blair to make the fight against African poverty a priority for his time left in office.
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Kenya's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, on Monday urged wealthy nations to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change to ease the burden of pollution on poor countries.
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LONDON -- British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, offered a $25 million prize yesterday for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the earth's atmosphere.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that rich nations should pay poorer countries to preserve their forests because the rich are responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Compromise deal on saving the planet has been hammered out at climate change conference
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Rich nations need to increase their funding to poor countries if they are to meet aid commitments a report says.
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More than 100 nations struggled Monday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's...
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Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said.
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British mogul Richard Branson has pledged to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects &quot;to tackle emissions related to global warming.&quot;
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Climate change and aid to Africa are top issues for leaders of industrialized nations.
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British mogul Richard Branson pledged to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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A global emergency fund set up to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally poor support" from some of the richest donors, aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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A higher tax on domestic flights and a moratorium on airport expansions are among some of the key proposals a Conservative policy group will announce Thursday as part of the political party&#39;s commitment to fighting climate change.
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China said that wealthier countries must take the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.