16.06.2010
EPA Finds Senate Climate Bill Affordable
U.S. environmental regulators said on Tuesday the climate and energy bill in the Senate would only add slightly to average household costs, but the finding was not expected to boost chances for the legislation that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. |
15.06.2010
British diplomat says Canada overstating progress in climate change fight
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Jim Prentice found himself upstaged on Tuesday, following a speech about cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants, as a foreign diplomat suggested the Canadian minister was overstating the big picture about international progress in fighting climate change. |
15.06.2010
Japan govt says climate bill may come later in year
Japan's cabinet will try to push its climate change bill through the country's upper house later in the year if it runs out of time in the current parliamentary session, a senior government official said. |
14.06.2010
Poor nations dismayed over draft
The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with developing countries strongly criticising a new draft of a global deal which surprisingly eliminated some of their most important proposals. |
14.06.2010
Mood thaws on climate change
IT WAS never going to be easy for the representatives of 184 countries meeting in Bonn last week to deal with the debris left scattered after the inconclusive result of last December’s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. |
13.06.2010
Harper pressured to put climate change on G8, G20 agenda
OTTAWA — It was described by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “sideshow,” but international leaders are mounting pressure on the Canadian government to include climate change as a major issue on the agenda at upcoming G8 and G20 economic summits in Huntsville, Ont., and Toronto. |
12.06.2010
UN climate talks end with some progress amid rifts on "imbalanced text"
"Imbalance" became the key word on the last day of the UN (the United Nations) climate talks in Bonn, as delegates criticized a new blueprint for a UN legally- binding climate treaty on Friday. However, the split could not cover some progress made during the past 12 days, even it might be just a little. |
04.06.2010
India asks UN to take tough stand against protectionism
NEW DELHI: India has demanded that the UN prevent any green protectionism by developed countries and include an explicit statement in the opening charter of any new deal to block carbon-based taxes being imposed on exports from developing countries such as India. |
04.06.2010
Basescu a discutat cu Hedegaard despre emisiile de CO2
Presedintele Traian Basescu a primit-o joi, la Palatul Cotroceni, pe Connie Hedegaard, comisar european pentru Combaterea Schimbarilor Climatice, cu care a discutat despre negocierile pentru un acord international post-Kyoto si despre obiectivele UE in domeniu, transmite Mediafax. |
02.06.2010
New round of climate negotiation begins
A FRESH round of negotiations kicked off Monday in another attempt to get global agreement on a treaty to meet climate change with representatives of 182 United Nations member-states in attendance at the meeting in Bonn, Germany. |
02.06.2010
Climate change to hurt Egypt farming, tourism
(Reuters) - Egypt's farming and tourism sectors could be hurt as climate change takes its toll on the country, fuelling food security concerns in what is already the world's largest wheat importer, an environment official said. |
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