The next U.S. president should signal a shift in global warming policies before taking office to help a U.N. meeting in Poland in December take steps to work out a new climate treaty, Poland said on Wednesday.Under President George W. Bush, the United States is the only rich nation opposed to the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol […]
Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold.A grouping of 192 countries under the United Nations is leading the way in negotiating a groundbreaking climate change treaty, and most of […]
Vast stretches of coastal India may just go under water if global warming goes unchecked.According to a report titled Blue Alert by Greenpeace, if present trends are any indication, there will be a five-degree increase in temperature over the next hundred years.
This will submerge large areas and displace around fifty million people in India alone. […]
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 […]
Former US vice president and renowned climate change fighter Al Gore said Saturday that the global warming crisis is getting short shrift in this year’s presidential race.Gore used the stage at a prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Monterey, California, to call for activism to push climate change to the top of the candidates’ […]
