OSLO (Reuters) - South Africa, India and Indonesia are vying to win the U.N.'s top climate change job, a key post to build trust between poor and rich in 2010 after the U.N.'s Copenhagen summit which set few binding targets. Many analysts expect a developing nation candidate ...

Environmental officials urged industrialized and developing countries Friday to stop bickering in climate change negotiations, as a Chinese delegate accused rich nations of reneging on commitments to fight global warming. Officials from more than 100 ...

Industrialized and developing countries are not likely to reach a treaty this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which have sparked fears of weather-related disasters, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. Yvo ...

The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer ...

The head of the UN's climate convention said Thursday that he is resigning, in a surprise announcement barely two months after the fiercely-contested Copenhagen summit on tackling global warming. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will resign as of July 1 ...

LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said Thursday he will step down in July to join a consultancy group, saying a new era of diplomacy was starting after the Copenhagen summit fell short of agreeing a new treaty. Analysts said the departure of the energetic and ...

The sharp-tongued U.N. official who shepherded troubled climate talks for nearly four years announced his resignation Thursday, leaving an uncertain path to a new treaty on global warming. Exhausted and frustrated by unrelenting bickering between ...

The head of the UN's climate convention said Thursday that he was to resign in a surprise announcement barely two months after the fiercely-contested Copenhagen summit on tackling global warming. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will resign as of July 1 ...

The United States on Thursday saluted UN climate chief Yvo de Boer after his sudden resignation, with a top senator vowing to press forward with the contested Copenhagen accord. Todd Stern, the US special envoy on climate change, described the dry-witted Dutchman as "enormously dedicated leader" and said he has ...

Yvo de Boer, head of the UN's climate change convention, will resign as of July 1, his office announced on Thursday. De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will join the consultancy group KPMG as global advisor on climate and sustainability and work with ...