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Climate talks seek complex, interlocked deal: U.N. (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Reuters - U.N. climate talks starting in Mexico this month will seek a complex set of interlocking deals to slow global warming but will fall well short of a new…

Little progress seen in climate talks in China (AP)

October 9th, 2010

A worker moves a scenery billboard against a city skyline shrouded with haze in Beijing, China Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. U.N. climate talks being held in China this week are making limited progress as rich and poor nations remain divided on key issues, negotiators said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Hopes dimmed for progress at climate talks in China as negotiators moved into their final day Saturday with little consensus.


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At UN, climate ministers seek way out of stalemate (AP)

September 25th, 2010

In this photo provided by The Climate Group, Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec, speaks at the opening ceremony for Climate Week NYC Monday Sept. 20, 2010 in New York. The event kicked off a week of panels and discussions that will be held throughout New York focusing on climate change solutions. (AP Photo/The Climate Group, Tina Fineberg) NO SALESAP - Climate ministers and top negotiators from dozens of nations remain deadlocked over how to cut greenhouse gases less than three months before the next major international climate summit.


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Has Russia’s Heat Wave Changed Stance on Climate Change? (Time.com)

August 2nd, 2010

Time.com - Once highly skeptical of climate change, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says the extreme heat the nation is suffering is the result of global warming

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UN eyes private help in $100 billion climate aid (AP)

July 13th, 2010

AP - The U.N. chief says a panel of advisers that includes the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Norway is considering tapping private sources to fulfill a pledge at Copenhagen…

Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report (AP)

July 5th, 2010

An iron ore mine is seen in Australia's Pilbara region. Australian prime minister Julia Gillard's maiden speech as leader singled out the three issues likely to be election flashpoints: the mining tax, climate change and the steady flow of asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Amy Coopes)AP - A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday…

Italy sees intermediate steps at UN climate summit (AP)

July 1st, 2010

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern speaks as deputy national security adviser for binternational/b economic affairs Michael Froman, left, looks on during a press conference at the end of the Major Economies Forum, a group created last year to prod the slow-moving U.N. negotiations along, on Energy and Climate in Rome, Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - Italy’s environment minister says an upcoming U.N. climate summit won’t broker a global accord on climate change, but may represent a step towards such an agreement.


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UN: No comprehensive climate deal this year (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Yvo de Boer, arrives at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Germany, on Sunday, May 2, 2010. Mexico and Germany are starting three days of meetings with 45 countries, teaming up in an effort to break a deadlock in talks for a global climate deal. (AP Photo/dapd/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - The United Nations chief negotiator on climate change says there will not be a comprehensive deal to fight global warming this year.


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UN official expects no climate deal until 2011 (AP)

March 31st, 2010

AP - A new legal agreement committing nations around the world to curb greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to be completed before the end of 2011, two years later than…

China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP)

March 9th, 2010

A truck transporting timbers in Pangkalan Kerinci, outside Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia. Wealthy and developing nations should be able to seal an agreement this year on deforestation, unlocking a key part of the next treaty on global warming, Indonesian negotiators said Monday.(AFP/File/Ahmad Zamroni)AP - China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.


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