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  • Sinking icons highlight threats of climate change

    2010-12-09 05:42

    Campaigners from Greenpeace immerse models of iconic global structures in the sea off Cancun to illustrate the threats of climate change to the whole world on Dec 8.

  • China climate chief meets with Ban Ki-moon

    2010-12-09 02:21

    Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, and head of the Chinese climate change delegation, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Dec 8 at the venue of the Cancun climate change conference in Mexico.

  • China vows voluntary, non-binding carbon cuts

    2010-12-08 11:02

    China makes clear that the autonomous nature of the national mitigation actions of developing countries, including China, will not be changed.

  • UN chiefs upbeat about Cancun progress

    2010-12-08 10:55

    Top UN officials have set positive tones for the climate change conference as it reaches the last three days.

  • In one poor county, working against climate change is costly

    2010-12-08 07:28

    The Songxian county in Central China's Henan province, home to more than half a million people, is on the government's list of impoverished counties. Its annual revenue is not much more than 300 million yuan ($45 million).

  • A coal-reliant nation faces tough times

    2010-12-08 07:28

    China, the most coal-reliant country in the world, will face a few hard decades to raise its clean energy to 50 percent by 2050 but the prospects are good, a senior climate change expert said on Monday.

  • China: Don't say 'no' to negotiations

    2010-12-08 07:28

    China hopes that negotiators refrain from saying "no" and work on solutions to settle their differences, said Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese climate change delegation, in his first meeting with the media since he arrived in Cancun on Saturday.

  • Glacier shrinkage faster in South America

    2010-12-08 01:08

    Patagonia – the southernmost portion of South America – and the coastal mountain ranges of Alaska are losing massive glaciers at a faster pace and for longer than glaciers in other parts of the world, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced on Tuesday.

  • China is improving energy efficiency: experts

    2010-12-07 13:42

    China is responding to climate change on numerous fronts, including improving its energy efficiency and adopting a "low carbon" energy strategy, Chinese environment experts said in Cancun Monday.

  • US bets on technology to beat climate change

    2010-12-07 10:27

    The United States is betting on that technological innovation will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the nation's secretary of energy said here Monday in a speech, where he did not specify targets for the nation.

  • Youths join for grassroots effort

    2010-12-07 07:20

    About one and a half months ago, 22 year-old Kevin Osborne, a recent graduate from Seattle University, was in a race against the clock - he was trying to set up an ambitious project called the China-US Climate Exchange for the Cancun climate change summit.

  • China calls for green technology cooperation

    2010-12-07 07:20

    China is intensifying technology cooperation and transfer with other developing countries under the South-South Cooperation to address climate change and ensure sustainable development, a senior technical official said.

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