APEC rift opens over climate change debate
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Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney Declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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G8 leaders will hold their first full day of talks amid climate change discord and a rift between Russia and the West.
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VIENTIANEâSoutheast Asian foreign ministers on Saturday debated the formation of a new regional grouping with Japan, China and South Korea that would cover one-third of the worldâs population, officials said.
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Asia-Pacific leaders were expected to sign a landmark statement on climate change at their annual summit on Saturday, papering over differences between rich and developing nations over pollution targets.
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Australia's conservative, anti-Kyoto prime minister has pushed climate change to the top of the agenda for this week's APEC forum. But can the U.S. and China be brought onboard this time?
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President Bush's climate meeting opened Thursday with its main problem on full display: The biggest polluters &#151; industrialized and developing nations alike &#151; say their economies are more important than global warming.
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Climate experts have greeted George W. Bush&#39;s call for a &quot;new framework&quot; to combat global warming, proffered days ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change will top the agenda, with some relief but even more skepticism.
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HAMBURG, Germany, May 30 (IPS) - Developing countries led by China and India insist  on "differentiated" commitments in any future  arrangements to address climate change, arguing that the rich  countries bear a "bigger responsibility" to make deeper  cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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President Bush urged Pacific Rim nations on Wednesday to band together on tackling global warming, saying all major polluters must be part of any solution. But finding consensus on the issue among Asian leaders at their annual summit has proven elusive.
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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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Scientists will step into a feud between Washington and its allies over global warming at a British-sponsored meeting this week.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist disputed yesterday the US government&#39;s contention that cutbacks in carbon-dioxide emissions are not warranted to slow global warming.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of his first G8 summit, saying the Asian power would use its clout to act as a go-between in the fraught debate on climate change.