G8 rich nations and major emerging economies probably won’t achieve a big breakthrough in talks on global warming in Japan next month, Britain’s climate envoy said on Thursday, echoing other forecasts for modest progress at best.Climate change is a key topic for the July 8 Group of Eight leaders’ summit as well as an expanded […]
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer called on industrialised countries on Thursday to start showing some of their cards in a slow-paced poker game whose prize is a new pact to tackle global warming.De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said talks unfolding among senior officials here marked “the […]
A new global deal on climate change should be achieved at a meeting in Copenhagen next year despite disagreement at talks this week, the head of the U.N climate change secretariat said on Tuesday.”I really am confident that at the end of the day, the deal will be struck,” Yvo de Boer said in a […]
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed to put out its next major assessment report by 2014, the body’s chairman Rajendra Pachauri said Thursday. The IPCC’s previous report was largely responsible for last year’s award of the Peace Prize, which the organization shared with former US vice president Al Gore […]
