Topic: World Meteorological Organization
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards. The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for ...
A Danish draft proposal for a political agreement "threatens the success" of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the head of the G77 group of countries said Tuesday at the summit aimed at sealing a historic deal on cutting carbon emissions. The text, ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said he expected the Copenhagen climate summit to seal a historic deal on cutting carbon emissions as scientists reported that the first decade of the 21st century had bust records for global warming. "I am encouraged ...
The UN's top weather expert warned Tuesday the world is in its hottest decade on record as climate negotiators plunged into talks seeking a historic deal on cutting carbon emissions. The World Meteorological Organisation's assessment underlined the pressure for an agreement at ...
The UN's top weather expert warned Tuesday that the world is in its hottest decade on record as climate negotiators plunged into talks seeking a historic deal on cutting carbon emissions. The prediction by the World Meteorological Organisation underlined the pressure for ...
The first decade of the 21st century is set to be the warmest on record, the head of the World Meteorological Organisation said at UN climate talks Tuesday. "The decade 2000-2009 is very likely to be the warmest on record, warmer than ...
Greenhouse gas emissions have kept increasing, reaching a record level since the pre-industrial era, the UN climate agency warned Monday, just weeks before a crucial climate change summit. "Levels of most greenhouse gases continue to increase," said the World Meteorological Organisation in ...
UN says greenhouse gases in atmosphere continue to increase, reached record high in 2008Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. Levels of greenhouse gases, ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for swifter work on a climate treaty, saying inaction could spell economic disaster and a rise in sea levels of up to 2 meters (6.5 ft) by 2100. "We cannot afford limited ...
A cold front is sweeping across Europe after gripping swathes of North America last month, but the deep freeze does not mean the threat of global warming has abated, caution scientists. "The major trend is unmistakably one of warming," Michel Jarraud, secretary ...
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