Topic: Mexico

Financing said vital for world climate change deal

GENEVA (Reuters) - A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday. The official, Franz Perrez, was speaking at a ...
The head of the UN's climate science panel said Wednesday there was little prospect of a breakthrough in efforts to forge a global agreement on climate change at a world meeting in December. A new UN conference is due to be held ...

Climate talks losing ground, say negotiators

UN climate talks tasked with curbing the threat of global warming are backsliding, delegates from both rich and developing nations said Friday at the close of a week-long session in Bonn. Even as evidence mounts that deadly impacts are upon us, negotiators ...

U.N. climate pact could be three treaties: Mexico

BONN (Reuters) - A U.N. climate pact to extend or replace the Kyoto Protocol could be a set of up to three legally binding instruments, not just a single one, Mexico's climate chief said on Thursday. A U.N. summit in Copenhagen last ...

China FM signs cooperation deal in Mexico

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi signed on Friday a four-year cooperation accord with Mexico aimed at boosting political and economic ties. The deal, also signed by Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa at the end of talks in the Mexican capital, covered a ...
Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed. "Depending on the warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed... climate change is ...
The World Bank will lend 800 million dollars to Mexico to help transform public transport to reduce emissions, and other programs, the bank's President Robert Zoellick said. The loans include 450 million dollars for social, water and infrastructure programs, said Mexican Treasury ...

Most vulnerable nations pledge climate action

Six countries seen as most threatened by rising sea levels have vowed to cut their carbon emissions as a gesture of their commitment to fight global warming, the Maldivian government said Monday. The countries, mostly low-lying nations, met over the weekend in ...

China wants energy goals reached before Cancun talks

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will aim to meet its five-year energy saving and emission reduction goals through 2010 ahead global climate talks at the end of the year, the country's top climate negotiator said. "We would lose the trust from the international ...
US envoy: Climate bill may not be in place by Cancun summit, insists it's not crucial to talksWashington's special climate envoy conceded Monday the U.S. may not have a climate and energy bill in place when the next major global warming conference ...
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