Lifting the lid on climate change talks The Guardian | Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be vicious | Illustration: Gillian Blease | At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok and merged ...
Issues to resolve for Copenhagen climate talks The State | A list of key points negotiators hope to clarify before meeting for a decisive U.N. climate conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark. | EMISSIONS TARGETS - Industrial nations are asked to make specific pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, while developing nations should state...
Too early to end stimulus: G20 Arab News | Jane Wardell I AP | ST ANDREWS, Scotland: Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climat...
Too early to end stimulus: G20 officials Zeenews St Andrews: Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged on Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climate change. | US Treasury Secre...
Britain wants G20 insurance against future bailouts Chicago Sun-Times | ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate ch...
G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus Houston Chronicle | ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climate change. | U.S. T...
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Envoys scale back U.N. climate pact ambitions CNBC BARCELONA, Spain - Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline, without...
Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions The Press Democrat | The idea of forging a political agreement, instead of a legally binding treaty, was becoming a more accepted possibility as negotiators acknowledged some nations, including the U...
Pachauri still sees a chance for success in Copenhagen conference The Guardian | In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Rajendra Pachauri says the global community may have to move ahead without any commitment from the United States. From , part of the | ...
Britain urges steps to insure financial system Philadelphia Daily News | JANE WARDELL | The Associated Press | ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bea...
Britain urges steps to insure financial system Newsday | November 7, 2009 JANE WARDELL (AP Business Writer) Quick Summary | Britain calls for steps on insuring global financial system, action now on climate financing | Photo credit: AP | An anti- protestor displays a banner saying "Nae Tae G20" (No...
Deal rides on big emissions cuts The Columbus Dispatch BARCELONA, Spain -- After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said yesterday that a new global agreement now depends on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in C...
Zambia's largest cobalt producer resumes output Business Report | Lusaka - Zambia's largest cobalt producer, Chambishi Metals Plc has restarted production after suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) delivered cobalt concentrates needed to resume output, the firm said on Saturday. | "We finally restarted the processing of cobalt concentrates late on Thursday and we have employed about 300 workers,"...
Somali pirates say Spanish captives still ashore The Star | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates are holding three sailors from a Spanish fishing vessel on shore, a gang member said on Sunday, rejecting Madrid's assertion that they had been reunited with the remaining crew aboard their ship. | A pirate who identified himself only as Mohamed said the return of the three to their vessel, the Alakrana, depen...
