Topic: United Nations
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nations face an uphill battle to reach agreement on a tougher climate pact by the end of 2011, a senior Indonesian climate change official said on Thursday, describing progress to date as bleak. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed doubt ...
Ministers will meet in Switzerland next month to discuss crucial financing to curb the impact of global warming, ahead of the UN climate conference in Cancun, Swiss authorities said on Thursday. About 45 countries are due to attend the informal ministerial conference ...
The UN's pointman on desertification called Wednesday on participants at the next climate summit in Cancun to take urgent measures to prevent future disasters by staving off land degradation. "Those most vulnerable to climate change live in the driest parts of the ...
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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A UN panel will review carbon offset issuances requests by three Chinese greenhouse gas destroying projects, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday, a sign the most lucrative projects under the Kyoto Protocol may face more scrutiny. The Shandong Dongyuen, ...
Mexico is striving to bring countries which felt excluded from the Copenhagen climate talks into the negotiations at this year's UN climate summit in Cancun, its climate ambassador said on Thursday. "Some developing countries felt excluded" from the Copenhagen negotiations last December, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global wheat markets reeling from Russian droughts, thousands of cattle killed by heat in Kansas, and countless crop acres wiped out by floods in Pakistan are glimpses of what can be expected as the world struggles to battle climate ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Some of Russia's smog-causing peatland fires are likely to burn for months, part of a global problem of drained marshes that emit climate-warming greenhouse gases, experts said on Wednesday. Novel carbon markets could offer a long-term fix for peat ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged on Monday that a key U.N. conference on climate change in Mexico at the end of this year might not produce the definitive agreement the world body is seeking. The admission brings Ban, who ...
Analysis: Climate talks in trouble: nations disagree on new treaty from Page 1 onwardThe new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 2 1/2 years begins with a brief document called "A Shared Vision." The problem is, there isn't one. The ...
Photo Gallery
-
Mideast Egypt opposition ElBaradei
Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. nuclear ...AP News - -
Pakistan Floods The Forgotten
A Pakistani man crosses a flooded road during rains in Shah Jamal ...AP News - -
Britain Blackberry Crackdown UN
Hamadoun Toure, chief of the U.N.'s telecommunication agency talks to ...AP News -
