UN-backed climate change conference ends with package of new ...
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18 December 2004 - The tenth-anniversary United Nations Conference on Climate Change concluded today in Argentina after adopting a package of measures aimed at helping countries to prepare for climate change.
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Â· US softens on deal to halt rising temperature Â· Race against time to rescue talks before summit
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At the Climate Change Conference in Buenos Aires, the EU has focused attention on the post-Kyoto process. Now that Russia has ratified the pact and it goes into force next year, it is time to look beyond 2012.
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The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The United States is the big odd man out as diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists from more than 190 countries gather here at the 10th meeting of the United Nations' Convention on Climate Change. The convention's Kyoto Protocol, with its mandatory reduction of &quot;greenhouse gases&quot; that cause global warming, goes into force next year. Discussions of new ...
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Industrial nations agreed to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases on Friday in a small step towards a new climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.
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Delegates at the UN summit in Bali agree a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling.
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Dec 12 (IPS) - The United Nations announced Wednesday it is  joining the growing worldwide effort to go "climate  neutral", an acronym for reducing or offsetting any  greenhouse gases.
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Two weeks of negotiations at a U.N. conference ended with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow down global warming.
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VIENNA - Industrial nations agreed yesterday to consider stiff goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a step toward a new global climate treaty to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020. About 1,000 delegates at a United Nations climate conference set a nonbinding guideline that would cut emissions to between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels. Officials from 158 nations ...
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The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Nearly 200 nations agreed at U.N.-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a last- minute reversal by the United States allowed a breakthrough.
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The nations expressed concern about climate change but did not agree on a common strategy for curbing emissions.
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Anil Krishna Mistry, 37, of India, right, Penina Moce, of Fiji , center, and Osvaldo Enrique Bonino of Argentina, pose for photographers during the 10th International Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday , Dec.10, 2004.
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An deal is in sight at the UN climate summit, but without specific targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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A new report on ecological damage from greenhouse gases dominated the sidelines of a U.N. conference on global warming Saturday as delegates from nearly 200 nations assembled to prepare for the launch next year of the Kyoto Protocol.
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The Kyoto Protocol is dead -- there will be no further global treaties that set binding limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) after Kyoto runs out in 2012.