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U.N. chief: Climate deal could 'change course of our history'
1 hour, 34 minutes ago ago from UPDATING NEWS
Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told nations that they had the chance to "change the course of our history" if they worked together to limit carbon emissions that are blamed for increasing global temperatures. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote that poor nations must join the U.S. in stemming emissions. "We have a chance -- a real chance, here and now -- to change the course of our ...
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Is it something we said? The Africans walked out - from under the collective banner of the G77 states. The G77 developing countries, blocked the United Nations climate talks overnight by walking out of several of the key meetings in protest over the failure of wealthy nations to put firm targets on the table under the Kyoto Protocol. (In case you're wondering how many countries belong to G7 - it is 120. The original G77 was founded ...
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CNSNews.com - Obama Administration, Western Countries to Promote ‘Clean Energy’ for Poor Countries with $350 Million Plan : "(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration announced measures to help developing countries make better use of “clean energy technologies,” as part of a plan which will cost Western industrialized countries $350 million over the next five years. The United States will pick up $85 million of that $350 million cost, the ...
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21 hours ago ago from maxxza.com
The atmosphere at the UN climate conference grew more tense and divisive after talks were suspended for most of Monday's session a sign of the developing nations' deep distrust of the promises by industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. With only days left before the conference closes Friday, at least one world leader said he would come early to try to salvage the negotiations, and others reportedly were considering the ...
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Climate change talks enter 'important moment'
21 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
COPENHAGEN -- Global warming talks entered what the top United Nations climate official described as a very distinct and important moment in the process Tuesday, as top ministers searched for a way to ensure the commitments nations made here would stand up over time. This Story Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters both large and small ...
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Getty Images Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kenyan professor Wangari Maathai and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attend a meeting on the ninth day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference. COPENHAGEN -- The United Nations' effort to muster global action against climate change appeared to move backward Tuesday, as the world's leading economies traded barbs over the most basic questions about how to divide responsibility for curbing ...
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Mr Ban told the summit's delegates not to "falter in the home stretch" The high-level segment at the UN climate summit have opened, with UN chief Ban Ki-moon telling nations to seal a deal on climate change. He told delegates in Copenhagen that they had the chance to change history. But he added: We do not have another year to deliberate; nature does not negotiate with us. Earlier, a senior UN official warned that ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- This week leaders from around the world gather here, in a quest for a global pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and tackle the single greatest challenge of our time. I am joining them, to discuss the urgency of their efforts, the economic opportunities we can seize, and the tremendous role of subnational governments in climate-change mitigation. Some pundits have described Copenhagen as the most important world ...
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