Todd Stern: New U.S. plan energizing global climate talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' new proposal to let countries draft their own emissions reduction plans rather than working toward a common target can...
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Report: US pushing plan for individual climate goals at UN talks
A United States-led plan that would allow countries to set their own climate targets is gaining traction at United Nations climate change talks.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Defending Keystone, Canadian official accuses James Hansen of "crying wolf" about oil sands
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver slammed a prominent United States climate scientist Wednesday for comments made about oil sands and the Keystone XL pipeline.
U.S. should do more on climate change to aid economy: U.N.'s Figueres
OSLO (Reuters) - The United States should do more to fight climate change and help industry catch up on missed economic opportunities in clean energies, the head of the...
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
California to link its cap-and-trade program with Québec’s 1 Jan 2014
The California Air Resources Board voted to approve a date of 1 January 2014 officially to link California’s cap-and-trade program with that of the Canadian Province of...
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
India questions U.S. green energy incentives at WTO
GENEVA (Reuters) - India hit back at U.S. accusations of trade restrictions in its solar industry on Wednesday, suggesting Washington was guilty of the banned practices,...
IEA: Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - The development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.
Monday, April 15th, 2013
US, China vow to boost cooperation on climate amid ‘increasing dangers’
China and the U.S. announced a new “Climate Change Working Group,” during Secretary John Kerry's Beijing visit.
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
IMF: End fossil fuel subsidies, tax carbon
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday promoted ending fossil fuel subsidies and taxing carbon emissions to discourage excessive energy consumption and combat...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Kerry: Policymakers 'toy' with oceans by not addressing climate
Secretary of State John Kerry said during a Monday speech in Washington, D.C. that policymakers have "the responsibility as human beings" to combat climate...
Saturday, March 16th, 2013
Nobel Prize winners urge Obama to back aviation carbon pricing
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of leading economists, including eight Nobel Prize winners, has written to President Barack Obama urging him to support a carbon price on...
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
EU climate chief to huddle with White House, State officials
The European Union’s climate minister is heading to Washington, D.C., for meetings with senior Obama administration officials as the White House is vowing to confront...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
World Resources Institute report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
WASHINGTON — The United States will struggle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to promised levels by 2020, a report from a prominent think tank warned this week, but the...
US trade officials file case over India's solar program
U.S. trade officials filed a case against India arguing that their government's solar program favors their own products and discriminates against imports from the...
Monday, February 4th, 2013
Biden vows climate change action in meeting with French president
Vice President Joe Biden reaffirmed the Obama administration's goal of tackling climate change during the president's second term in a meeting with the French...
Monday, January 28th, 2013
EU climate commissioner Hedegaard: carbon price drop 'wake-up call'
BRUSSELS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A sharp drop in carbon allowance prices is a "wake-up call" showing European Commission reforms need to be implemented, the EU's...
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'
Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated...
Saturday, January 26th, 2013
World Bank chief: Obama’s inaugural speech could ‘reignite’ climate push
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim hopes that President Obama’s climate-heavy inaugural speech will be a shot in the arm for efforts to prevent catastrophic global warming.
EU carbon price crashes to record low
Price of a permit to emit a tonne of carbon fell to €2.81 after an EU vote against a proposal to support the struggling market.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Airlines accused of pocketing EU emission trading fees after policy was suspended
U.S. airlines made as much as $83 million from European emission trading rules they vocally opposed, a group of environmental advocates claims.
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