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Climate envoy slams rejection of Paris deal; WH says US will cut on own terms
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
Todd Stern, who was Barack Obama's special envoy for climate change, said he was "annoyed, frustrated" by the new president's rejection of a deal that took the ...
Artificially cooling planet 'risky strategy,' new research shows
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
Geoengineering - the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere - ha...
Merkel, Macron to front diplomatic push at UN climate talks
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
Despite announcing it will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the United States has a delegation at the Bonn huddle, tasked with drawing up rules for executing ...
World leaders plead for climate action at UN forum
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
UN chief Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the diplomatic push in Bonn, but it was a small boy with a b...
Scientists warn of 'giant leap backward' at climate talks
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
CO2 emissions, flat since 2014, were forecast to rise two percent in 2017, dashing hopes they had peaked, scientists reported at 12-day negotiations in the Germ...
Heat on 'climate chancellor' Merkel over coal and cars
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
Battles over dirty coal plants and the combustion engine have dogged her efforts to forge an unlikely three-way governing alliance with the Greens and pro-busin...
Cooling in high and mid-latitudes led to aridification in Northern Africa
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
Climate scientists still puzzle about the rapidity of aridification and the climate processes that led to this. Now, a group of researchers from several Europea...
US defends fossil fuels at UN climate meeting
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
Members of President Donald Trump's administration and energy company representatives jointly hosted a controversial "side event" at the UN meeting, where they ...
Under Trump, US to miss Paris climate targets: report
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
A crescendo of efforts at the sub-national level to shrink the country's carbon footprint will not fully counterract US President Donald Trump's decision to scr...
Climate target too low and progress too slow: top scientist
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
"This reality is being ignored by governments around the world," said James Hansen, who famously announced to the US Congress 30 years ago that global warming w...
UN chief says $100 bln climate fund far from guaranteed
Nov 10, 2017 (AFP)
"We need to mobilize the agreed $100 billion annually for developing countries," Guterres told reporters ahead of his trip to Bonn to attend the UN climate conf...
Developing world says rich nations shirking on climate pledges
Nov 10, 2017 (AFP)
The diplomatic spat has underscored the difficulty of reaching a consensus at the 196-nation talks. "If we do not respect decisions that we have made, then how ...
Developing world says rich nations shirking on climate
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
The diplomatic spat has underscored the difficulty of reaching a consensus at the 196-nation talks. "If we do not respect decisions that we have made, then how ...
Cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
They calculated the first internationally comparable greenhouse gas footprints for four cities from developed and developing countries: Berlin, New York, Mexico...
EU to cut car emissions to meet climate targets, rival China
Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)
The European Commission, the EU executive, called for cutting carbon dioxide emissions from cars and vans by 30 percent by 2030 and 15 percent by 2025, compared...
Syria to join Paris climate pact, isolating US
Nov 07, 2017 (AFP)
"We are going to join the Paris Agreement," the Syrian delegate, speaking in Arabic, said during a plenary session at the 196-nation talks, according to Safa Al...
Plea for 'urgent action' on climate shadowed by Trump
Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)
"The need for urgency is obvious," said Frank Bainimarama. "Our world is in distress from extreme weather events caused by climate change -- destructive hurrica...
2017 set to be hottest non-El Nino year: UN
Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)
Even if the cyclical weather events -- which bump up global temperatures every three to seven years -- are included, this year will still be one of the three wa...
UN climate talks resume with wary eyes on Trump
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
The November 6-17 meeting in Bonn, Germany, is the first for UN climate envoys since the US president announced he will extricate Washington from the deal, care...
White House OKs report warning climate change caused by humans
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
The findings of the federally mandated report were approved by the White House, even though they are starkly at odds with the position of President Donald Trump...
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