UN chief blames rich for warming
7 December 2012Source: AP - Rich countries are to blame for climate change and should take the lead in forging a global climate pact by 2015, a deadline that (…)
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China demands timetable to $100 billion climate aid for developing world
7 December 2012Source: Reuters - China led developing nations on Wednesday in demanding rich countries give details of a promised surge in aid to $100 billion a (…)
Activists accuse Arab states over climate change at U.N. talks
7 December 2012Source: Reuters - Arab nations have failed to use U.N. talks on climate change to put forward any meaningful measures on tackling the problem in (…)
Clean development threatened as Kyoto Protocol expires - experts
7 December 2012Source: AlertNet - As climate change delegates meet in Doha for the United Nations climate change conference (COP18) they are facing a unique (…)
Africa’s lead negotiator puts out four-point agenda to salvage COP 18
5 December 2012Source: Ghana Business News - the climate talks continue in Doha, the lead negotiator for the African continent has put forward a four-point (…)
UN Climate Change Negotiations 2012: India refutes charges of ’back sliding’ on commitments
5 December 2012Source: Economic Times - DOHA: India refuted charges that it is "back sliding" on commitments made at Durban, stressing that work on the post 2020 (…)
COP18: Room for optimism on climate finance at UN talks
5 December 2012Source: Responding to Climate Change - There is growing optimism that the current stalemate on climate finance could be this week when the (…)
Doha Climate Conference: Kyoto Protocol And Other Issues Remain Unresolved
5 December 2012Source: Huffington Post - Dec 3 (Reuters) - Almost 200 nations are meeting in Doha until Dec. 7 to try to extend struggling U.N.-led efforts to (…)
Doha Qatar: Climate talks ’leading to successful outcome’ on Kyoto Protocol 2nd commitment period
5 December 2012Source: Afrique en Ligue - Doha, Qatar - Head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat Christiana Figueres has (…)
Next Kyoto Protocol phase in place from start of 2013, predicts UN climate chief
5 December 2012Source: Irish Times - UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has confidently predicted that the conference in Doha, Qatar, “will produce a second (…)
US envoy hits China’s stand in UN climate talks
5 December 2012Source: Albany Times Union - DOHA, Qatar — The top U.S. envoy to U.N. climate talks is challenging China’s demand for favorable treatment in (…)
Obama Plans for Climate Deal as Fiscal Cliff Talks Rage
5 December 2012Source: Businessweek - As leaders in Washington obsess about the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama is putting in place the building blocks for (…)