Tens of billions promised to goose clean energy tech
PARIS (AP) -- Government and business leaders plan to spend tens of billions of dollars in the next five years to develop clean energy technology in efforts to fight global warming, an official and a...
View ArticleParis climate change conference expected to bring historic deal on emissions
The international conference on climate change that opens here Monday is widely expected to produce a historic agreement among nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say cause...
View ArticleChristiana Figueres: the woman tasked with saving the world from global warming
The UN climate chief is confident that the Paris summit can make history and produce a landmark deal to limit future carbon emissions – but any success depends on her pivotal role...
View ArticleChinese report on climate change depicts somber scenarios
Rising seas besieging China’s economically vital coastal zones. Mighty feats of infrastructure, like the Three Gorges Dam and railway in Tibet, strained by turbulent rainfall and the melting of frozen...
View ArticleGroundswell of business support for Paris climate action
As the 40,000-plus attendees to the Paris climate summit congregate on Monday at a former aircraft hangar in north-east Paris, a surprisingly large chunk of Australian big business will be cheering...
View ArticleClimate pledge at war with economic growth
Even as the Paris climate talks begin today, countries remain hesitant on scientists' idea of 'carbon budget' After two decades of talks that failed to slow the relentless pace of global warming,...
View ArticleThe Climax of Obama's Climate Legacy
As President Obama flies to Paris this weekend for the opening of the latest international negotiation on climate change, diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic appear confused about what his position...
View ArticleEnergy-rich Russia pays little attention to climate change
MOSCOW (AP) -- When forest fires roared through Siberia this summer, so vast that the smoke blocked vast Lake Baikal from satellite view, Russian officials blamed the blazes on arsonists and...
View ArticleObama eyes chance to make mark, at last, on climate change
Six years after a fiasco in Copenhagen and a year before he leaves office, a Paris summit offers Barack Obama the chance to make his mark in the fight against climate change. In December 2009, Obama...
View ArticleParis 2015: Momentum for climate change deal grows as Obama joins Xi at UN talks
More than 140 world leaders including US President Barack Obama and Xi Jinping of China are gathering in Paris for France's biggest diplomatic event since 1948, striving to reach the first truly global...
View ArticleBehind China's Evolution From Climate Deal Holdout to Leader
Back in 2009, China was a reluctant partner during major climate negotiations in Copenhagen that eventually collapsed amid recriminations between rich and poor nations. This time around the is regarded...
View ArticleParis Primer: Rundown on Climate Talks
Rosanne Skirble Despite the recent terrorist attacks in the French capital, the climate meeting set for November 30-December 11 in Paris will go ahead as scheduled. Here's a primer on what the...
View ArticleTens of billions promised to boost clean energy tech
PARIS (AP) -- Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week's high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging tens of...
View ArticleObama seeks to seal climate legacy in terror-addled Paris
Paris (CNN)With a major piece of his White House legacy at stake, President Barack Obama flies to Paris Sunday hoping to seal an historic climate accord in a city still rattled by terror attacks two...
View ArticleUN climate change summit could bring first progress in years
Government leaders from 194 nations, braving threats of further terrorist attacks, gather Monday in Paris for the 21st United Nations climate change summit. Their goal is to forge a framework that they...
View ArticleA climate for change (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) On the eve of international climate change talks in Paris, UNSW magazine sits down with UNSW's Matt England and Potsdam University's Stefan Rahmstorf...
View ArticleNegotiators grab head start on monumental climate challenge
By Barbara Lewis and Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - Senior negotiators from almost 200 nations on Sunday began thrashing out a new global deal to curb climate change as the president of China, the...
View ArticleObama’s climate scam backed by Canada
It’s beyond bizarre. U.S. President Barack Obama — backed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna — heads into Monday’s United Nations climate change conference...
View ArticleEarth is a wilder, warmer place since last climate deal made
PARIS (AP) -- This time, it's a hotter, waterier, wilder Earth that world leaders are trying to save. The last time that the nations of the world struck a binding agreement to fight global warming was...
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Earlier this year I received a message from a long-time reader of my Communications [1], who was persuaded of the urgency of the climate problem. As a significant supporter of the Democratic Party, he...
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