A long round of talks on the trek towards a new global deal on climate change headed to a close on Friday, battered by criticism that progress was negligible.The 12-day haggle under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was the second since the accord in Bali, Indonesia, last December that set down […]
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 […]
The United Nations’ top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, on Monday asked the European Union (EU) to provide financial help to major developing economies in order to reach a global deal on climate change. De Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, addressed an EU environment […]
