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U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement

Dominic Evans and Alister Doyle The Washington Post 12/19/2009
Whitney Houston looks bloated and sweaty as she delivers another disappointing show

It was billed as a triumphant comeback, but Whitney Houston's tour is not exactly panning out that way. The 46-year-old singer, who looked bloated and sweaty on stage, delivered another disastrous performance in Denmark over the weekend.

U.N. climate talks end with bare minimum agreement

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates "noted" an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference's original goals.

No U.N. deal on carbon cuts, last day of talks

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Two years of U.N. climate talks reached their climax in Copenhagen on Friday without a deal on carbon emissions cuts, as world leaders tried a last push to agree a new global climate pact.

Copenhagen negotiators struggle to save talks

Climate change negotiators have been working through the night in Copenhagen to try to rescue plans for a global agreement from collapse.

Global warming 'caused by sun's radiation'

Louise Gray Telegraph 12/08/2009
Emerging giants draft climate deal: Kyoto must stay

COPENHAGEN — The world's major emerging economies led by China are calling for a "binding" amendment to the Kyoto Protocol requiring rich countries to slash carbon pollution by more than 40 percent compared to 1990, according to a document seen by AFP Thursday.

Global warming 'caused by sun's radiation'

Global warming is caused by radiation from the sun, according to a leading scientist speaking out at an alternative ‘sceptics conference’ in Copenhagen.

 
Environment ministers prepare for UN climate change summit

Copenhagen - Some 40 environment ministers gathered Monday in Copenhagen for preparatory talks ahead of the UN climate change conference that opens next month in the Danish capital. Ministers from key emitting countries including the United States, China and India as well as African countries and low-lying island nations threatened by global warming and rising sea levels were among those present.