Archive for ‘policy’
climate impasse in Bali easing
December 14th, 2007
Europe toned down a clash with the United States over 2020 climate goals on the final day of U.N. talks in Bali on Friday, raising hopes of a deal to start negotiations on a new global warming treaty.
Popularity: 6%
Gore blames U.S. for Bali stalemate
December 14th, 2007
Al Gore was speaking at the United Nations conference in Bali where 190 countries are trying to find consensus on a new approach to reducing carbon emmisions.
Popularity: 7%
Deal to fight deforestation agreed at climate talks
December 14th, 2007
Climate talks in Bali reached a deal on Friday to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, hailed as a sign of developing nations’ commitment to fighting global warming.
Popularity: 7%
Al Gore: Political Will Is a Renewable Resource
December 13th, 2007
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says climate change will come if there is political will, adding “political will is a renewable resource.
Popularity: 4%
EU threatens to boycott US climate talks
December 13th, 2007
European nations threatened Thursday to boycott U.S.-sponsored climate talks next month unless the Bush administration compromises and agrees to a “road map” for reducing greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Popularity: 5%
Climate skeptics say debate stifled
December 13th, 2007
The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a “stealth attack” on mankind.
Popularity: 4%
Al Gore lays blame for Bali stalemate on U.S.
December 13th, 2007
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore drew cheers at 190-nation talks by saying the United States was the main block to launching negotiations in Bali on a new global climate treaty.
Popularity: 5%
Climate talks deadlock
December 13th, 2007
A non-binding range from 25 to 40 per cent cuts below 1990 levels of greenhouse gases by 2020 remains in draft text but several nations including the United Nations, Canada and Australia oppose the guideline figures.
Popularity: 6%
Gore: US blocking climate talks progress
December 13th, 2007
Al Gore said Thursday the United States is “principally responsible” for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions.
Popularity: 6%
Money & Politics: UN Climate Change Conference
December 12th, 2007
Bali Summit: Participants call for changes in Global Carbon Market
Popularity: 4%
US faces new demands at Bali talks
December 12th, 2007
As the U.N. climate conference entered its last days, the United States encountered — and rejected — fresh demands Wednesday that it accept ambitious guidelines for negotiating future cuts in emissions of global-warming gases.
Popularity: 4%
White House censors testimonies on global warming
December 12th, 2007
The White House censored climate scientists and edited their testimony on global warming before Congress
Popularity: 4%
Money And Politics: Bali Climate Change Conference
December 11th, 2007
No unity yet at UN Climate Talks
Popularity: 2%
Finance ministers in Bali count climate costs
December 10th, 2007
Forty nations held unprecedented talks about ways to slow global warming without derailing world economic growth on the margins of U.N. climate talks in Bali on Monday.
Popularity: 6%
