All nations need to set tougher targets to combat global warming at a U.N. summit and the rich should spell out how much aid they will give the poor by 2020, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday.
European carbon emissions futures fell five percent to a new two-week low on Thursday due to deadlocked U.N. climate talks and warnings by ministers that they could fail, traders said.
Following are notable quotes about U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Thursday, where negotiations were deadlocked with just one day left to work out a new deal to combat global warming after two years of work.
U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen on Thursday to help secure a U.N. climate pact, staking his credibility on an as yet elusive deal that has ramifications for him at home and on the world stage.
Danish hosts re-launched U.N. climate talks on Thursday after the United States backed a $100 billion (62 billion pound) global fund to support poor countries and world leaders gathered for a final effort to reach a deal.
India said on Thursday rich countries were set to launch a propaganda campaign wrongly blaming poor nations if a U.N. summit in Copenhagen failed to reach a deal to combat global warming.
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All nations should set tougher goals for combating global warming at a U.N. summit and the rich should spell out how much aid they will give the poor by 2020, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday.
European leaders are courting some African, Asian and Latin American nations to counter the clout of China and the United States at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, French officials said.
The Kyoto Protocol which binds nearly 40 rich nations to limit carbon emissions is in intensive care and global negotiations to extend the pact have stalled, Environment Minister Jairam Rameshsaid on Wednesday.
World leaders took the stage at the largest ever climate talks on Wednesday as ministers scrambled to rescue troubled negotiations on a pact to avoid dangerous global warming.
Danish police detained 230 people on Wednesday as protesters stormed barricades around a global climate summit and a handful briefly broke through, witnesses and a police spokesman said.
China and the G77 claimed that the Copenhagen Climate talks have broken down, degenerating into a fight between developed and the developing world.
Asia's aggressive emission targets and legislation around carbon and power use are expected to drive demand for energy efficiency products and services, creating lucrative opportunities for investors in the sector.
Global talks on climate change still lack clarity and could even break down over serious outstanding issues with only three days to go before the world has to agree an outcome, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries on Tuesday to compromise to salvage agreement on a new U.N. pact aimed at averting dangerous climate change.
Trade in controversial carbon rights under the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 could undermine emissions targets agreed under a new global climate pact, the European Union environment commissioner said on Tuesday.
Ministers strived to break a deadlock in global climate talks on Tuesday, three days before world leaders are meant to agree a new U.N. pact aimed at averting dangerous climate change.
China can become a powerful force to help developing nations fight both climate change and poverty with low-cost exports of wind or solar technologies, the head of the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) said.
A key ingredient for any climate change deal in Copenhagen this week will be a money pledge by rich countries to help poor ones fight global warming.
A senior Chinese envoy said on Monday that developing nations' top concern at a slow-moving climate summit is securing funds from the rich to pay for carbon emissions cuts and cover the cost of adapting to a warmer world.
The aftermath of climategate, the leaked emails from a leading climate research institute, are giving new ammunition to those who don't follow the consensus argument on man-made global warming. The following is a summary of what arguments arise from the leak.
