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AP - Forget the global economic crisis and climate change. What Latin American leaders are talking about is who is not at Tuesday’s summit: the United States or any other outside power.
AP - Germany is looking for ways to nudge the United States, and the incoming Obama administration, to step up efforts to slow global warming.
AFP - The past 12 months have been cooler than previous years but longer-term trends show the world is still warming due to climate change, the World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday.
AFP - Best-selling author Thomas Friedman on Tuesday praised Barack Obama’s new energy team and said the next US president had to insist on a radical environmental agenda to tackle global warming.
AP - More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.
AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the United States and others must match the European Union’s commitment to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Time.com - Though expectations for the annual summit weren’t high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and a financial meltdown around the world, neither were its accomplishments
AFP - Electronics manufacturers are finally taking climate change seriously but have been slow on the uptake, environmentalists said Tuesday.
AFP - President-elect Barack Obama named his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US leadership on combating climate change after eight years of Republican foot-dragging.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado to run the Interior Department, rounding out an environmental and energy team charged with quickly tackling global warming and developing alternative forms of energy.
AFP - President-elect Barack Obama Monday nominated Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, at the head of a new team to take on global warming and break US reliance on foreign oil.
LiveScience.com - The effects of climate change on the ocean could squeeze the jumbo squid out of its habitat, a new study suggests.
As carbon dioxide from power plants, automobiles and other sources has built up in Earth’s atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, nearly half of it has been absorbed by the ocean, gradually turning the waters more acidic. …
AFP - Democrat John Kerry was named Monday the new chairman of the US Senate’s powerful foreign relations committee, pledging to remake the “war on terror” and fight climate change.
AP - Australia said Monday it plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by as little as 5 percent by 2020 a reduction that critics say undermines international efforts to reach an effective global pact next year to avert dangerous climate change.
AFP - Australia Monday pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least five percent from 2000 levels by 2020 to help fight climate change, in a plan dismissed by critics as a “global embarrassment.”
AP - When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.
Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama, who has vowed to adopt an aggressive approach to global warming and the environment, will announce his choices to lead the effort at a news conference on Monday.
AFP - After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment, creative thinking and a deep well of money.
Time.com - Though expectations for the annual summit weren’t high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and a financial meltdown around the world, neither were its accomplishments
AFP - George W. Bush’s last hurrah in the global climate arena has met with a welling of disdain contrasting with the outsized expectations for his successor, Barack Obama.
AFP - European Parliament negotiators approved a landmark climate change deal reached by European Union leaders, tweaking the text ahead of a vote by the full legislature next week.
Time.com - Though expectations for the annual summit weren’t high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and a financial meltdown around the world, neither were its accomplishments
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Global warming is raising the
risk for infection with so-called “airport malaria” in malaria-free zones
of the United States and Europe, researchers warn.
AFP - A planet-wide forum on climate change Saturday hammered out a work schedule designed to end in a treaty for expunging the darkening threat to mankind from greenhouse gases.
AFP - The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Friday agreed a work programme designed to lead to a historic treaty to roll back the threat of global warming.
AP - Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference broke through red tape and freed up millions of dollars Friday to help poor countries adapt to increasingly severe droughts, floods and other effects of global warming.
Reuters - Europe secured the world’s broadest agreement yet to battle global warming on Friday after helping east European states pay for changes that will punish their heavily polluting power sectors and industries.
Reuters - EU leaders sealed an ambitious global warming deal and 200-billion-euro ($264 billion) economic crisis pact on Friday, urging U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to join Europe in a “transatlantic recovery plan.”
AP - Highlights of a deal European Union leaders sealed Friday on an ambitious plan to curb the greenhouse gases that cause global warming:
AFP - European Union leaders reached a unanimous agreement on an ambitious climate change package at the end of a two-day summit in Brussels on Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.
