The latest giant United Nations meeting on climate change failed to get closer to a binding international deal to limit carbon pollution, leaving a great many people extremely concerned.Scientists and society generally have come to see climate change as among the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced.And yet it is extremely complicated to find a responsible balance between economic and envir
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rejected criticism that China is keeping its currency undervalued in order to boost exports.He said keeping the yuan stable was an important contribution to global recovery from the economic downturn.He was speaking at the end of China's annual parliamentary session.Mr Wen also said that recent strains in ties with the US were Washington's fault, citing arms sales
UNITED NATIONS UN chief Ban Ki-moon launched a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change.The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed to mobilize the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen, Ban told reporters.The gro
indignant reaction to the announcement of U.S plans to sell weapons to Taiwan appears to be in keeping with a new triumphalist attitude from Beijing that is worrying governments and analysts across the globe.From the Copenhagen climate change conference to Internet freedom to China's border with , China observers have noticed a tough tone emanating from its government, its representatives and in
WASHINGTON Disappointment at the outcome of a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference in Copenhagen is justified, US President Barack Obama said in a US television interview on Wednesday. I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen, he told the PBS Newshour program. What I said was essentially that rather than see a complete collapse in
Governments must stop the “fingerpointing and recriminations that have followed the fractious end of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, for fear of further damaging the chances of drafting a global warming treaty, the UN’s top climate official said on Wednesday.Yvo de Boer, the UN official in charge of the talks, told the Financial Times: “The important thing now is to st
The United Nations bowed to intensifying pressure on Monday to start sweeping reforms of its processes for reaching agreement on climate change.Developed and developing countries have condemned the bureaucratic and unwieldy process of reaching unanimous agreement from 192 countries, which many blamed for the chaotic end of the Copenhagen climate change conference at the weekend.
COPENHAGEN -- Sen.John Kerry promised Wednesday that Congress will pass a sweeping climate change bill in 2010 -- if negotiators here can reach a global deal this week. The speech by Kerry, a key Senate player in drafting climate change legislation, drew a standing ovation from a packed hall.Throughout the fraught negotiations at this U.N global wa.mng summit, other nations have said repeatedly t