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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...

India's economy keeps on growing but its place on the list of the EU's trading partners has barely moved. The European Union's relations with India are curiously...

Climate negotiators could take a leaf out of the global postal sector's book. The two weeks of tortuous negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

When the EU moves, others follow, writes the European Commissioner for climate action on the breakthrough deal struck at the Durban summit on climate change. At the Durban...

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...

Connie Hedegaard's risk in Durban was redemption for the EU after its embarrassing failure at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Connie Hedegaard, the European...

EU, US, Japan compromise to pave way for updated Government Procurement Agreement. The European Union has agreed with the United States and Japan to open up their...

Climate change deal includes all major emitters. The world's largest economies have agreed on a roadmap towards a legally-binding deal by 2015 to to cut greenhouse-gas...

South Africa and Brazil are now prepared to sign up to a roadmap, but other major countries are holding out. The EU has made a final appeal to large economies to sign up to a...

Little prospect of a deal at Durban conference. The mood darkened at the  climate-change summit in Durban, South Africa, yesterday (7 December) as negotiators failed to...

There are only two paths to choose between at Durban. Your recent report on climate change highlighted the debate in the EU about an extension of the Kyoto Protocol at the UN...

Leaders discuss eurozone crisis, foreign affairs at summit in Washington, DC. Obama says US 'ready' to help eurozone tackle crisis The United States and the...

Commissioner for climate action says she still believes that the EU should not sign up to a second Kyoto deal on its own. Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for...

Hedegaard says EU must continue to push others 'in our direction'. Expectations have been lowered for the United Nations climate summit, which begins in Durban, South Africa...

G20 winners and losers.

But other issues are also on the agenda in Cannes. The turmoil in Greece and its fall-out in the eurozone are expected to dominate meetings of G20 leaders and finance...

The eurozone crisis confirms many of the Obama administration's instincts about today's world order. The administration of US President Barack Obama cannot escape Europe. The...

Agreement on an updated binding deal for climate change will be very tricky. The Kyoto protocol is showing its age – and has been for years. In 1990, the year used as the...

The European commissioner for climate action on what she expects from the climate talks in Durban. Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, says that...

Split over how to deal with assigned amount units. National ministers for the environment agreed at their last meeting (10 October) that they were open to extending the...