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Initiatives to reduce Egypt's greenhouse gas emissions could get a big push if world leaders and environment officials meeting in Copenhagen for climate talks that start Monday agree to maintain or enhance the carbon trading framework. "Companies seem to be...

Catherine Bragg, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the UN’s Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, will also jointly launch an appeal for Zimbabwe today with senior officials from the Government.

Climate decisions must factor in develpoment Published 07 December, 2009, 17:47 Tim Wilson, climate and trade union director, Institute of public affairs, believes that there should be an agreement that works for every country in the world. “What’s really important...

E-mails purporting to show a coverup by British climate change scientists were hacked in a sophisticated operation originating in Russia, sources say. Citing an unnamed senior member of the U.N.'s Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, the British newspaper The Independent...

Some 15,000 delegates from 192 countries are descending on Copenhagen on Monday (7 December) for what many are describing as the biggest show on Earth, and, for scientists at least, the most important meeting the world has ever known: the...

In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest. Still, the United States can meet the challenge of a world demanding that it take...

Cornelia Parker, Gary Hume and Keith Tyson reveal how they're dealing with the threat of catastrophe Vision of a tragic future? … Tomás Saraceno's Biospheres at the Rethink exhibition in Copenhagen. Photograph: Anders Sune Berg A floating plastic bubble, so hi-tech...

The Pan African Parliamentarian Network has issued a release pinpointing the unwillingness of the developed countries to have a legal binding with African countries. The release which was signed by Hon. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian indicates that the time for action...

Reggie, a 3ft kingsnake, almost had to be put down when it mistook its tail for another snake and took a bite, but found itself unable to regurgitate the tail due to its backward-facing teeth. The snake’s owner was only...

A South African climate negotiator says four major developing nations have presented a joint climate proposal ahead of a U.N. conference on global warming. Alf Wills says the document by China, India, Brazil and South Africa represents "different positions" compared...