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Old Fights Plague Climate Talks in Cancun

CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 6) -- Deep, longstanding divisions between industrialized powers and developing nations over how to fight global warming are festering as negotiators today begin their second week of talks on climate change. The developed world wants emerging economies like China and India to take a greater role in...

Opinion: Why We Need to 'Cool It' on Global Warming

(Nov. 12) -- For 20 years now, we've been debating what (if anything) we should do about global warming, with very little to show for it. Despite grandiose pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050, no meaningful international...

Opinion: Copenhagen -- All Pain, No Gain

(Dec. 7) -- Would you spend a lot of your own money on something that would give you and your family very little, if any, benefit? Probably not. Yet this is precisely what the government leaders now meeting in Copenhagen are demanding from their taxpayers. With the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol set to expire in 2012,...

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12/07/11 "Industrial states not ignore Kyoto Protocol" Source: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday criticized major industrial countries for ignoring their commitments to Kyoto Protocol.
12/02/10 Kyoto Protocol - "Japan don't leave me now!" Source: Greenpeace International After 12 years of commitment, Japan shocked all of us by announcing at the beginning of the week that they were thinking of leaving the Kyoto Protocol!