EU leaders close in on climate change deal
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European Union leaders were poised on Friday to endorse deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions while leaving each member country a degree of flexibility in how to achieve that goal.
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The Kyoto accord takes effect this week, with  new obligations to reduce greenhouse gases. For the plan to work, here's what Europe must do
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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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European Union leaders clinched a landmark climate change accord on Friday cbut postponed the thorny task of setting mandatory renewable energy goals for each member country to meet.
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Developing countries are urging changes to a deal drawn up by the US and the EU at the UN climate change conference. The draft agreement emerged late on Friday, after two weeks of negotiations in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
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European Union leaders on Friday endorsed binding targets to cut greenhouse gases and ensure a fifth of the bloc's energy comes from green power such as wind turbines and solar panels.
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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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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- European leaders, angered by the growing impasse here over the U.S. refusal to accept any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, threatened Thursday to boycott the parallel climate negotiations that President Bush launched with great fanfare in...
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European Union leaders inched tentatively toward a deal on a new treaty of reforms early Saturday after a German showdown with Poland, as a key EU summit moved into its third day.
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EU leaders seek a deal on renewable energy targets, a day after agreeing to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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European leaders are set to commit their countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a European Union summit focused on energy and the climate.Comment
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The European Commission has unveiled a plan of action to tackle climate change. Will it work?
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The EU and the US talk into the night over plans to begin negotiations about the future of emissions reduction.
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BRUSSELS - EU leaders gather Thursday to make a long-awaited decision on launching entry talks with Turkey, widely expected to give the green light despite last-ditch haggling over the exact terms of the offer.
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A draft final statement at a European Union summit on Friday set a binding target of 20 percent of renewable sources in EU energy consumption by 2020 in an ambitious strategy to fight climate change.
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Papers throughout Europe discuss the coming into effect of the Kyoto Protocol.
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European Union states debated how far they are willing to go to fight climate change on Tuesday as the 27-nation bloc forms what could become the world's most ambitious strategy to curb global warming.