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A major climate change report for Australia’s government on Friday recommended the rapid introduction of an emissions trading scheme to curb greenhouse gases and warned that delay could be disastrous.”Without early and strong action, some time before 2020 we will realise we’ve indelibly surrendered to forces that have moved beyond our control,” said the report’s […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.On the eve of his departure on a two-week, three-nation Asian tour, the secretary general said the July 7-9 summit […]

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 […]

Zambia has not been spared by climate change damages in the recent years, Tourism and Natural Resources Deputy Minister Todd Chilembo has said, calling for measures to address the situation.
When he officiated at the workshop in Lusaka Friday for the study on the economic impacts of climate change, Chilembo said that the effects of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tackling climate change is too crucial to be derailed by a temporary economic downturn, the OECD head has said.In a wide-ranging interview for BBC News, Angel Gurria said that the long-term damage that would occur if the world did nothing about greenhouse gases would far outweigh the short-term problems of the credit crunch.
Nevertheless, the OECD […]

Greenpeace urged industrialised nations Tuesday to set up an international fund to fight deforestation but warned it would require at least 30 billion dollars a year to work.The plan would see rich nations give poorer ones money to preserve their natural forests instead of felling trees to create farmland, Greenpeace’s Roman Czebiniac told an 11-day […]

Rich countries are failing to set a good example for developing countries on tackling climate, the head of the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change has said.
According to Rajendra Pachauri, many developed countries have failed to lead the way and do what is necessary to make the developing nations commit to a new global […]