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European leaders promised on Friday to provide developing countries with 7.3 billion euros ($10.8 billion) over three years to try to win their support for a climate change deal in Copenhagen.

Britain will contribute along with France at least 1.5 billion pounds ($2.44 billion) to climate finance funding for 2010-2012, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.

As over 15000 politicians and delegates gather in Copenhagen for the UN's Climate Change conference , a separate conference in Denmark also occurred, comprising of scientists and lobby groups.

As over 15000 politicians and delegates gather in Copenhagen for the UN's Climate Change conference , a separate conference in Denmark also occurred, comprising of scientists and lobby groups.

Over 1,700 scientists in the U.K. signed a statement on Thursday, stating that they agree with evidence that shows humans are responsible for climate change.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate change talks in Copenhagen, even though many nations accused the United States of lacking ambition.

U.N. climate talks are making progress on sharing green technologies but rich nations need to offer deeper cuts in carbon emissions by 2020 to help unlock a deal, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Thursday. There's a general recognition that we need a technology mechanism, as part of a U.N. climate convention, Yvo de Boer told Reuters on the sidelines of December 7-18 talks in Copenhagen, when asked about progress so far.

Transparency critic Lumumba D'aping attended an informal meeting ahead of the global climate conference where the allegedly leaked “Danish text” proposals were circulated, the U.N. Climate Chief said Wednesday.

Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, U.S. President Barack Obama urged leaders on Thursday to confront climate change and warned of dire consequences if the world did nothing to curb rising carbon emissions.

Billionaire financier George Soros outlined a way to unlock $100 billion (61.5 billion pounds) to help slow global warming on Thursday as talks on a new U.N. climate deal slowed over tough demands by the Pacific island state of Tuvalu.

NASA has given out a grant to the University of Georgia that will help undergraduate professors to observe and report on the effects of climate change on birds.

Billionaire financier George Soros told Reuters on Thursday he had found a way to unlock a stalemate on climate finance using International Monetary Fund assets.

California's global warming law, similar in scope to a measure under consideration by the U.S. Congress, will have a negligible effect on the bottom lines of small businesses, a study showed Wednesday.

The United States supports taking early action to liberalize trade in products that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes that could spur progress in broader world trade talks on environmental goods and services, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's top aides promised on Wednesday robust negotiations toward a global climate change deal this month, but firmly stated the United States does not owe the world reparations for centuries of carbon pollution

Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and noted environmentalist, says that recently leaked emails from East Anglia University will do nothing to counter the scientific consensus about climate change.

The impacts of climate change have worsened almost every year since 1980, according to a study on Wednesday inspired by the Dow Jones stock index that distils global warming into a single number.

Former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called for U.S. President Barack Obama to boycott the Copenhagen global climate change conference later this month, saying it will reach politically motivated results based on agenda-driven science.

The United Nation's climate change summit has been billed as the last hope to save the world from itself. Brought on by a rise of man-made greenhouse gases, the earth is slowly inching towards a man-induced climate disaster, urgent for coordinated action...or so the saying went.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the hacked emails on climate change from the British university, have not affected the United Nations belief that humans are increasing climate change.

Against a greater welter and flow of incoherence jerking the nation this way and that way en route to collapse comes ClimateGate, the latest excuse for screaming knuckleheads to defend what has already been lost. It is also yet another distraction from the emergency agenda that the United States faces - namely the urgent re-scaling, re-localizing, and de-globalizing of our daily activities.