U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE - CANCUN
U.N. fund could ease route to 2015 global climate deal
LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Board members of the U.N's Green Climate Fund (GCF) must rise above politics when they meet for the first time later this week to help channel $100 billion a year towards the world's poorest nations to fight the catastrophic effects of rising temperatures, and to act as a springboard to a global climate deal in 2015.
Factbox: Australia-Norway plan to rescue U.N. climate talks
- Australia and Norway have crafted a proposal they hope will get troubled global climate talks back on track and win agreement on a broader climate pact by 2015.
U.S. won't back binding climate deal with financial conditions
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Point Carbon) - The U.S. would not consider a climate deal "genuinely binding" if it excludes the biggest emerging economies or if those countries' commitments were conditional upon financial support from developed countries, the lead U.S. climate negotiator said Monday.
Island states hint at climate talks compromise
BONN, Germany - Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.
IEA sees record CO2 emissions in 2010
PARIS - Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies, the International Energy Agency's chief economist said on Monday.
Analysis: Ghost of Cancun haunts Bangkok climate talks
BANGKOK - The deep divisions apparently bridged by last December's climate deal in Cancun opened anew this week at U.N. talks in Bangkok, undermining the chance of any agreement on the shape of a broader pact by year's end.
U.N. climate talks risk backsliding on Cancun outcome
BANGKOK - Arguments over the agenda that have stalled U.N. climate talks in Bangkok this week show that some nations are trying to row back from hard-won agreements reached last December, Russia said on Wednesday.
Progress on Cancun climate goals uncertain: envoy
WASHINGTON - Tensions between developed and developing countries in global climate talks could hamper progress on U.N. agreements hammered out in Mexico last year, the U.S. climate envoy said on Wednesday.
U.N. climate talks risk backsliding on Cancun outcome
BANGKOK - Arguments over the agenda that have stalled U.N. climate talks in Bangkok this week show that some nations are trying to row back from hard-won agreements reached last December, Russia said on Wednesday.
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