Topic: Barcelona
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Saturday criticised a walkout by African states during climate talks in Barcelona as "grandstanding," and said it did not help developing countries' case. "I believe for example that grandstanding ... like walking out of meetings like African ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - About 40 world leaders plan to go to Copenhagen next month to boost the chances of clinching a U.N. climate deal, the United Nations said Friday as preparatory talks wound down with scant progress. Developing nations in Barcelona ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Some 40 heads of state plan to attend a U.N. meeting in December in Copenhagen meant to agree a global warming deal, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday. "My understanding is that 40 heads of state have ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Low-carbon farming can both curb climate change and boost food output in developing nations and so must be rewarded under a global climate deal due in December, the U.N.'s food agency said on Thursday. Steps to cut carbon ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. The top U.S. climate diplomat Todd ...
Republicans engage in partisanship as world awaits leadership on warming Congressional Republicans this week continued their assault on President Barack ObamaÕs agenda, this time by acting like juveniles while world leaders pleaded for leadership. In the Senate, the environment committee had scheduled ...
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Draining and burning of the world's peat bogs accounts for about 5.5 percent of global carbon emissions but are currently excluded from governments' climate targets and U.N. talks, a study found on Wednesday. Peat stores around twice as ...
By Stacy Feldman BARCELONA, Spain, Nov 3 (SolveClimate) - Developing nations could end up being paid billions of dollars to raze rainforests and build palm oil plantations in their place if the current text of the Copenhagen climate treaty sticks, a group ...
Negotiators meeting for a final session before a worldwide conference on climate change were urged on Monday to craft simple, clear options for politicians facing next month's haggle in Copenhagen. "The clock has almost ticked down to zero and, as always, time ...
Greenpeace activists on Monday scaled Barcelona's landmark Sagrada Familia church in a protest to call for action against climate change, as a UN conference got underway in the city. Around 20 members of the environmental organisation first attempted to unfurl a 600-square-metre ...
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