RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Reaching a binding climate deal at the upcoming U.N. conference in Mexico will likely be difficult, delegates from a group of developing nations said on Monday, spurring further doubts about a global climate accord this year. Environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM) may end from 2013 unless the world can agree and put into force a new round of carbon emissions targets before then, a U.N. paper has said. The CDM enabled a $20.6 billion trade in carbon emissions rights ...

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 the Maldives ahead of a UN climate change ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will try to push climate talks forward at a two-day ministerial meeting in November by focusing on winning agreement on sharing clean technologies, a sticky issue that divides rich and poor countries. The Nov 8-9 talks are aimed at clarifying rules on sharing future innovations and ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Leading climate scientists on Thursday welcomed a British report that cleared researchers of exaggerating the effects of global warming and said they hoped it would restore faith in the fight against climate change. The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, launched an inquiry after more than 1 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Emails stolen from one of the world's leading climate change research centers contained no evidence to undermine the case for manmade global warming, a report found on Wednesday. An investigation into the British research unit cleared its scientists of serious wrongdoing, but criticized their lack of openness ...

A Dutch environment agency says the seminal U.N. scientific report on climate change is too generalized and has even more errors than previously noted — including one contributed by the agency itself. But the review ...

China will host an extra round of climate talks in October before a UN summit in Cancun at year's end as nations attempt to devise a post-2012 treaty, state media said Monday, quoting a UN official. United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner told the China Daily that ...

European and U.S. environmentalists demanded action Friday after an obscure U.N. advisory panel lent credence to their claims that industrialized nations are wasting billions of dollars on carbon-cutting projects. The dispute revolves around the validity of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Kyoto Protocol scheme may be encouraging projects to emit more greenhouse gases because of incentives to earn carbon offsets from subsequently destroying these, a U.N. report said. The projects under investigation are the most lucrative under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and account for more ...