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6 September 2010
New Delhi, Aug 17 - India, one of the four BASIC countries, will play an important role in the process of arriving at a consensus at the UN climate change summit at Cancun later this year, Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said Tuesday.
United Nations, August 9 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged on Monday that a key U.N. conference on climate change in Mexico at the end of this year might not produce the definitive agreement the world body is seeking.
Paris, August 6 - United Nations climate talks tasked with curbing the threat of global warming are backsliding, delegates from both rich and developing nations said Friday at the close of a week-long session in Bonn.
Bonn, August 4 - Rich countries have been put on the back foot after new research showed that current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be wiped out by gaping loopholes in the UN climate change treaty put forward in Copenhagen last year.
Rio de Janeiro, July 26 - A meeting of the BASIC group, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, ended on Monday without consensus on a unified plan to deal with the global climate change.
Bonn, June 1 - The fractious close to last year’s Copenhagen Summit cast a long shadow over the first day of the latest round of international climate talks in Bonn as a small group of Latin American countries blocked efforts to resume negotiations.
How will recent developments in Copenhagen and elsewhere affect progress on climate change? Eco-business.com speaks to Professor Tim Flannery, scientist, explorer, conservationist, and Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council.
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