International Business News - Climate http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Negotiators from 190 countries agreed a year ago to complete a new global warming treaty by the end of 2009 that would force governments to reduce carbon emissions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/deadline-for-global-climate-treaty-in-question.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:10:50 EST Negotiators from 190 countries agreed a year ago to complete a new global warming treaty by the end of 2009 that would force governments to reduce carbon emissions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/deadline-for-global-climate-treaty-in-question.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:20:19 EST Environmentalists criticized the United States and other rich countries Tuesday for failing so far to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/activists-no-progress-yet-at-climate-talks.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:09:32 EST Developing countries will need at least $50 billion per year to deal with the consequences of climate change, money that could be raised by auctioning off some rights to emit greenhouse gases, an aid group said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/climate-change-fallout-may-cost-annual-50-billion.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:07:52 EST Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its choking cities, shrinking water resources and increasingly flooded lowlands. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187233-smog.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/ex-bad-boy-china-praised-at-climate-talks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/ex-bad-boy-china-praised-at-climate-talks.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:24:37 EST New Zealand will introduce a new emissions trading scheme before next year and remains committed to helping combat climate change, Prime Minister John Key said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/leader-new-zealand-to-get-new-climate-law-in-2009.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:44:40 EST Negotiators kicked off the final yearlong push Monday for a new climate change treaty--but with the U.S. government in transition, the European Union in disarray and a worldwide economic crisis, chances were hazy for a quick agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/un-climate-conf-concerned-about-financial-crisis.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:03 EST The global financial crisis already has delayed some green energy projects, stoking fears that a shortage of investment money will lead to cheap and dirty decisions on new power plants, the U.N.'s top climate official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/186685-poland-u-n-climate-conference.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/un-financial-crisis-delaying-green-projects.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/un-financial-crisis-delaying-green-projects.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:33:20 EST The president-elect won't be there, but an Obama buzz will crackle through the conference hall when negotiators gather Monday for a final push toward a sweeping new global warming treaty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/obama-buzz-felt-at-global-climate-talks.htm Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:39:03 EST The president-elect won't be there, but an Obama buzz will crackle through the conference hall when negotiators gather Monday for a final push toward a sweeping new global warming treaty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/obama-buzz-felt-at-global-climate-talks.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:05:19 EST The global financial crisis will make it harder for countries to agree on an ambitious new treaty to combat global warming and underscores the need to make green technologies profitable, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/183417-poland-summit-on-sectoral-cooperation.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/un-financial-crisis-a-burden-on-climate-change.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/un-financial-crisis-a-burden-on-climate-change.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:34:42 EST Some 500 women rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday, demanding richer nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions and compensate the impoverished countries that experts believe will be hardest hit by the impacts of climate change. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/183302-bangladesh-climate-change.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/bangladeshis-rally-against-climate-change.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/bangladeshis-rally-against-climate-change.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:33:57 EST Under arrest, Paxus Calta raised two fingers from his shackled hand to flash a peace sign. Fellow environmental activists cheered as police escorted him to the van that would take him to jail. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182205-climate-radicals.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/climate-crisis-energizes-radical-environmentalists.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/climate-crisis-energizes-radical-environmentalists.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:21:36 EST Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms exact a widening human and financial toll. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/what-climate-change-meltdown-trumps-fears-at-apec.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:51:10 EST African countries have agreed to negotiate as a bloc in talks on a new global warming treaty, a move meant to give the continent highly threatened by climate change a greater say in the future pact. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/africans-to-stick-together-in-climate-change-talks.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:11 EST The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/un-climate-change-chief-hails-obama-commitments.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:44 EST Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can't shove messages about global warming down audiences' throats. They met at the Skirball Cultural Center on Tuesday to discuss how storytelling in film and TV can translate broad issues about climate change to everyday audiences. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/hollywood-ponders-global-warming.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:49:32 EST Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world. "My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change," Obama said in a video message to governors and others attending a Los Angeles summit on the issue. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/obama-promises-leadership-on-climate-change.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:26 EST Greenhouse gas emissions by 40 industrialized nations that signed the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty have dropped an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels, U.N. officials reported Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081117/un-says-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rose-in-2000-06.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:46:59 EST California could face as much as $3.9 billion in annual damages caused by wildfires, rising sea levels and extreme weather events if not enough is done to combat global warming, according to a report released Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/study-global-warming-could-be-costly-for-calif.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:34:46 EST