U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact. His decision is not expected to further derail U.N.-led climate talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, divided [...]

If changes in the public mood and the party alignment of the U.S. Senate have stalled healthcare legislation, they may have thrown the highly anticipated climate bill under a bus. Even before Republican Scott Brown’s stunning election to the Senate in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts last month, it was proving hard to corral moderate Democrats to [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels confirmed the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to [...]

AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India. The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference [...]

UNITED NATIONS — The reduction goals announced by the nations responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall short of what many scientists say is needed to limit the disastrous effects of climate change, a U.N. official said Monday. Janos Pasztor, the top climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]

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RIYADH (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks are a bigger threat to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia than increased oil supplies from rival producers, its lead climate negotiator said on Sunday. SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil [...]

World talks on climate change may not yield a legally binding pact by year’s end, UN pointman Yvo de Boer said on Wednesday in his first public assessment after last month’s turbulent Copenhagen summit. De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said he had taken stock among a number [...]

WASHINGTON — Just a month after world leaders fashioned a tentative and nonbinding agreement at the climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen, the deal already appears at risk of coming undone, the top United Nations climate official warned on Wednesday. Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing [...]

The future of the EU’s Low Carbon Revolution hangs in the balance as it becomes likely its emissions targets will be delayed again. The ongoing uncertainty is rooted in the EU’s offer to the Copenhagen climate summit of a 30% emissions cut. But this was dependent on “comparable effort” from other big polluters. Observers say [...]