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[Breaking News] UN talks to forge new climate-change pact face myriad arguments ...: EU: China, India must make emissions cutsSTOCKHOLM ”” The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday. Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.

[Dose.ca World News] Vulnerable states team up for tougher climate pact: BONN, Germany - The world's poorest nations joined small island states on Friday to urge far tougher global goals for fighting climate change, saying their people were at risk from everything from droughts to rising sea levels. You have two major groups now agreed on the same target," said Kim Carstensen, head of the WWF conservation group's global climate initiative.

[IDSA Updates] IDSA Strategic Comments:: Sino US Climate Pact: Context, text and ...: One, that the two biggest emitters have recognised the issue and are willing to cooperate, following which one can hope that at Copenhagen they will no more be stumbling blocks in the way of the multilateral process. The second is the fear that the Sino-US bonhomie can strangulate the multilateral process on climate change by asserting the superiority of the bilateral process in which they could work on the basis of less stringent and more watered down norms governing emissions control.

[ECO-BUSINESSWIRE.COM] ECO-BUSINESSWIRE.COM Ӽ U.N. climate pact seen hinging on deeper ...: climate deal due in December will be a flop unless industrialized nations sharply increase promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions for 2020, the chair of a key U.N. group said on Wednesday.

[philstar.com - Breaking News] Top UN climate expert faults G-8 goal without deed | Home >> Other ...: Pachauri, who also is director-general of India-based TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, praised President Barack Obama for making it a priority of his administration to achieve a climate deal in Copenhagen. The Bush administration had been opposed to the Kyoto climate pact, saying it would harm the US economy and unfairly excluded cuts by developing nations such as India and China —

[Energy & Climate News] India says wants climate change pact at Copenhagen - World ...: Ramesh's statement came ahead of the December conference in Copenhagen, which is meant to seal a new international accord on fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol's requirements expire in 2012.

[Global Warming] Global Warming » Australian climate change chief turns away from ...: Australia’s chief climate change negotiator Louise Hand sees a dramatic shift from the design of the Kyoto Protocol as the best way to reach a global climate change deal in Copenhagen in December.

[Climate Thinkers Blog] Three Ways of Going MAD - COP15 United Nations Climate Change ...: The peculiar causalities and time scales of climate change further complicate the task of convincing all countries of the mutual interest in fighting global warming. While during the arms race the fatal consequences of using any nuclear weapon were obvious to all nations, the complexity of the Earth System and the enormous time-lags between pollution and damage make it difficult to directly attribute emissions-induced effects to any single actor.

[Dot Earth] Climate Bill Success = Treaty Failure? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com: “Climate change is a reality and the world cannot afford inaction,” the senators wrote. “However, we must not engage in a self-defeating effort that displaces greenhouse gas emissions rather than reducing them and displaces U.S. jobs rather than bolstering them.”

[Breaking News] Korea, New Zealand pledge emissions cuts as climate talks ...: BONN - The world needs clarity on the extent industrialised countries are going to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) that are changing the climate and what "nationally appropriate mitigation action" large developing countries like India will take, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said here Monday. Speaking at the mid-point of a June 1-12 conference to prepare for this December's summit in Copenhagen where a climate agreement is scheduled to be inked, de Boer said negotiators from 182 countries gathered here should also provide clarity on "how to generate support for mitigation and adaptation (to climate change) in developing countries" through financing from industrialised countries.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Legislation; Agricultural ...: General Secretary Kofi Annan, issued a report warning that ”˜mass starvation, mass migration, and mass sickness’ would ensue if the world did not agree to ”˜the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated’ on global warming at a forthcoming conference in Copenhagen.”

[Breaking News] EU presidency: new climate change pact hinges on China, India ...: US role in new climate treaty hinges on ChinaWASHINGTON ”” The United States is not likely to enter into a new international treaty to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming without China and other major greenhouse-gas emitters on board, the Obama administration's chief climate negotiator said Wednesday. U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern told reporters in a conference call that China and other major developing countries are critical to making any international agreement work, and there is not going to be a new treaty to curb greenhouse gases without them.

[San Francisco Examiner Site Feed] Korea, New Zealand pledge emissions cuts as climate talks ...: Last week, South Korea said it will set an emissions target for 2020, the first country outside the 37 nations included in the Kyoto pact to set a national cap. The Seoul government said it would announce the target later this year, and it could range from 4 percent below 2005 levels to 8 percent above.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: G8 climate pact lights up divisions: He is an Englishman who lives in rural Scotland." And he thinks that "There has been the most extraordinary series of postings at Climate Audit over the last week." and that "The story is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cyncism that is rife among climate scientists". He thinks Steve Mcintyre is the good guy and ME Mann, RS Bradley, MK Hughes, C Amman and E Wahl, plus the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council are bad guys.

[CleanBeta] CleanBeta » Blog Archive » What Political Failure on Climate ...: Unfortunately, there appears to be less and less confidence among the world's leading authorities on climate change that political leaders will be able to reach any meaningful pact on cutting carbon emissions. CO2_Stabilization paths Skepticism appears to have increased substantially in recent years as the pace of carbon emissions growth has accelerated beyond many of the worst forecasts predicted and the Kyoto climate regime has yielded more modest results than most .

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