News tagged with climate treaty

Canada withdrawal from Kyoto is 'bad news': France

Canada's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol is "bad news" for global efforts against climate change, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 15

Canada's Kyoto withdrawal under fire from China

Canada's historic decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol provoked heavy criticism from China on Tuesday, with Beijing saying the move went against international efforts to combat climate change. ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 103

Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol (Update)

Canada became the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, saying the pact on cutting carbon emissions was preventing the world from effectively tackling climate change.

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created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 51

Afforestation will hardly dent warming problem: study

Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study published on Sunday said.

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created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 15

UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord

(AP) -- A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions ...

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created Dec 11, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Bolivian says climate talks may commit 'ecocide'

(AP) -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales, addressing a U.N. climate conference with modest goals, said Thursday that governments will be committing "ecocide" if they fail to act decisively to halt global warming.

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created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Compromise spirit at climate talks in last days

(AP) -- It may not last, but a spirit of compromise seems to have settled over the annual U.N. climate conference as negotiators enter its final days looking for agreements on secondary tools for coping with ...

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created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Plodding climate talks stepping up to higher level

(AP) -- The slow-moving U.N. talks on combating global warming took a step forward Saturday with revised proposals for a $100 billion-a-year climate aid fund and other issues for debate by the world's environment ...

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created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 34

Climate science chief sees 'huge gaps' in research

(AP) -- From the methane-laden tundra of the far north to the depths of the oceans, world governments need to spend more on cutting-edge research to "get a handle" on how much and how quickly the world will ...

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created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Obama to launch clean energy initiative in India

US President Barack Obama and India are expected to launch a joint initiative on clean energy, eyeing economic opportunities in an area that has long divided the two countries.

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created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Nations to seek clean energy cooperation

The world's top economies will look next week at ways to work together on clean energy, striking a rare note of cooperation amid an impasse in drafting a new climate change treaty.

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created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UN: No comprehensive climate deal this year

(AP) -- Outgoing U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer shot down expectations of a climate treaty this year, saying Monday that a major U.N. conference in December would yield only a "first answer" on curbing greenhouse ...

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created May 03, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Climate: Copenhagen pledges set Earth for +3 C warming - study

Carbon-curbing pledges under the Copenhagen Accord are likely to doom Earth to warming of three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) or more, compared to the deal's target of 2 C (3.6 F), scientists said ...

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Kyoto Protocols: In conflict or cooperation?

President Obama's visit to China before December's Copenhagen conference underlined views that the international strategy to tackle climate change truly hinges on cooperation between the United States and the developing Asian ...

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Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change

(AP) -- Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global ...

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