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India has been an important player in global climate talks, but lost its way in Durban last year. India has been considered a skilled negotiatior in international climate...

Agreement in Durban on a roadmap to a future global treaty will see Europe continue a second period of binding emissions cuts, but Green groups say the deal is...

Call follows UN decision. Green campaigners have written to environment ministers calling for the EU to exclude coal projects from qualifying for offsetting carbon credits...

UN scheme under fire for lack of effectiveness, while Commission seeks to protect emissions scheme. Pollution trading was not invented in Europe, but it has become as much...

The UN assesses the state of talks in the wake of December's climate-change summit in Copenhagen. In December, the nations of the world and most of its leaders met in...

It may be a marginal contributor to climate change, but Africa could be a major contributor to efforts to curb climate change. After a long series of preparatory meetings,...

The Copenhagen talks could have an effect on carbon trading and the Clean Development Mechanism. One way to judge whether Copenhagen is a success for the environment might...

Developed countries split over adaptation money; negotiating drafts stands at 280 pages. There are fewer than 90 days until the world goes to Copenhagen in a bid to agree...

Swedish minister says world's poorest countries will need 'significant money' to adapt to climate change. The European Union will make an “urgent” push for climate...

Developed and developing countries must work together to address the problem of climate change. Climate change is “the greatest market failure the world has ever seen”,...

Jennifer Rankin reports on the clean development mechanism, one of the most controversial emission-reduction schemes. European pollution goes a long way. It can be turned...

The head of Shell sets out his view of the way towards a global climate-change deal and towards win-win public and industrial policies. Although the global recession is...

EU executive to press for all major emitters to be included, and warns that money earmarked for poor countries is "insufficient". The European Union should seek to build a...

The difficulty of passing laws in the Congress this year could weaken the US's negotiating power for a new climate change treaty, a former US ambassador says. The United...

Fund to ease adaptation to climate change now operational, but states differ on how money should be raised. At UN summits past, countries disputed the science of climate...

Jennifer Rankin reports from the United Nations climate change conference in Poznan where progress was limited and trust and money were in short supply. In the early hours...

Sarkozy has made good on his promise. In doing so, he showed once again that it is member states that set the EU's policy agenda. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made...

EU leaders hope to finalise climate change package; major differences over free emissions allowances. EU leaders will strive to reach agreement on the climate change package...

The idea of using carbon cash to help people harmed by climate change is not popular. The World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) agree that...

By putting an emphasis on sustainable forestry, the EU can encourage developing countries to participate in the fight against climate change. The European Parliament is...