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 [...]

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World leaders insist that the climate deal clinched in desperation at the UN summit in Copenhagen is the best that can be done as they return home to a lashing from critics. Newspapers have widely called the summit accord a failure and experts such as the head of a Nobel Peace prize-winning climate panel says [...]

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