Climate tops Apec summit agenda
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Australian PM John Howard puts climate change top of the agenda at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders.
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President Bush urged Pacific Rim nations on Wednesday to band together on tackling global warming, saying all major polluters must be part of any solution. But finding consensus on the issue among Asian leaders at their annual summit has proven elusive.
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Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.
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Japan aims to put global warming top of the agenda as it takes over the chairmanship of the G8.
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Hopes for an Asia Pacific-wide carbon emissions trading scheme were dashed Tuesday as APEC energy ministers met to discuss climate change and the region&#39;s booming power needs.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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World leaders are set to take part in a special UN meeting in New York to discuss global warming.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao took centre stage Thursday ahead of an Asia Pacific summit with trade and climate change high on the agenda of his talks with the leaders of Australia and the United States.
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U.S. President George W. Bush hopes to spur momentum for a world trade pact and a global target on climate change at this week's APEC summit in Sydney, but host Australia has warned not to expect binding greenhouse targets.
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Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday  to adopt a &quot;long-term aspirational goal&quot; to reduce greenhouse  gas emissions, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations should formulate a concrete plan to tackle climate change at their summit this week, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami has pushed disaster early warning to the top of the agenda at a meeting of the world's small islands, potentially crowding out concerns about climate change and trade, some delegates say.
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Burning public health issues, cloned animals and the dangers of climate change will top the agenda at a conference drawing some 10,000 eminent scientists from around the world.
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There is a major UN climate change meeting underway in Buenos Aires: the tenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-10).
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S commitments to greenhouse gas reduction were well ahead of major emitters who had signed up to the Kyoto climate change protocol, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell said today.