U.N.&#39;s Ban says will press Bush on climate change
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U.N. Secretary General Ban  Ki-moon said on Monday he would press U.S. President George W.  Bush over climate change when they meet in Washington on  Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, on Thursday called on about 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.
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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.
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As he addresses a conference on climate change this morning, President Bush will face not only a crowd of skeptics but the press of time. For nearly seven years, he invested little personal energy in the challenge of global warming. Now, with the end in sight, he has called the biggest nations of...
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Democrats running Congress will likely not be able to pass climate legislation with mandatory limits on "greenhouse" gases without help from President Bush, the Senate energy panel chair said.
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By Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 2--President Bush's call for a 15-nation accord on curbing greenhouse gases is being hailed as a U-turn in his thinking about the dangers of global climate change. But without specific details to go by, it's difficult to assess in just what direction Mr.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.
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President Bush, under international pressure to take tough action against global warming, on Thursday called for a summit of the United States and other nations that spew the most greenhouse gases on the planet.
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European nations on Thursday threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions at a U.N. conference here.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, on Thursday called on 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - The European Union threatened on Thursday to boycott U.S. talks among top greenhouse gas emitting nations, accusing Washington of blocking goals for fighting climate change at U.N. talks in Bali.
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
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President Bush is preparing a separate climate change meeting in Washington later in the week.
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PRESIDENT BUSH increased the pressure on Kofi Annan over the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal yesterday, pointedly declining to endorse the UN Secretary-General.
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The Bush administration would like to throw cold water on the idea of doing anything substantive about global warming. But the heat should be on the president until the United States limits emissions of greenhouse gases.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s plan  to combat climate change got a cool reception in Europe on  Friday where the European Union&#39;s environment chief dismissed  it as unambitious and the &quot;classic&quot; U.S. line.
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The US tells a UN conference on climate change it has no intention of joining the Kyoto Protocol in the near future.