Speaking in Brussels yesterday (3 March), Leinen conceded that Europe might need a Plan B for international climate change talks, considering the difficulties in reaching an agreement under the UN process, which requires unanimity. He pointed to the array of different views on the 'Copenhagen Accord' agreed in December, which was celebrated as a step forward by the US, China and India but ...
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EurActiv on 4th Mar 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Some 100 countries have signed up for the Copenhagen Accord for fighting climate change, two months after it was agreed at a summit in December, documents showed on Tuesday. China, India and Russia are the largest greenhouse gas emitters yet to make clear if they fully endorse the deal, which sets a goal of limiting a rise in world temperatures to less than two degrees Celsius. China and India'...
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EurActiv on 25th Feb 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Business organisations from across the world, including Europe, the United States, China, India and Brazil, have offered their support for a global climate change agreement at this year's UN meeting in Copenhagen.
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EurActiv on 20th Feb 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Europe's credibility will be in tatters at the Copenhagen summit next year if its leaders cannot reach a deal beforehand on how to share the burden of climate change targets, writes Ian Traynor in Brussels
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Guardian on 16th Oct 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Brussels is bidding to take over responsibility for negotiating key investment treaties with the European Union's trade partners, potentially making it easier for investors from India and China to do business in Europe
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FT on 8th Jul 2010 (via ft.com)
The US Congress must pass a "strong" climate change bill before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this December if it is to have a chance of persuading China and India to sign up to a new treaty, says Bill Clinton
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FT on 13th May 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
China and India must play their full part in fighting climate change and accept that programmes financed by the West to modernise their industries will only come in return for making genuine efforts at home, warns the EU's chief climate negotiator in an interview with EurActiv.
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EurActiv on 25th Feb 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Asked for more information on the Prime Minister s trip to Brussels, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that the Prime Minister would travel to Brussels tomorrow, with the Council meeting starting at about 3pm. The main items to be discussed would be energy and climate change and the economy. On energy and climate change, the talks in Brussels coincided with the global t...
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DowningStreetSays on 12th Dec 2008 (via downingstreetsays.com)
The European Union is getting closer to a deal on supporting the low-carbon development of emerging countries such as China, India and Brazil, as the global community enters the final negotiating straight before a UN climate summit in December, EurActiv has learnt.
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EurActiv on 16th Oct 2009 (via euractiv.com)
EU environment ministers want advanced developing states like China and India to "contribute adequately" to emissions reductions as part of a global climate change agreement next year. Meanwhile, a deal on the EU's own climate and energy package remains elusive following opposition from Italy.
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EurActiv on 21st Oct 2008 (via euractiv.com)
阅读中文 | Read this in Chinese David Miliband today described China as the 21st century's "indispensable power" with a decisive say on the future of the global economy, climate change and world trade. The foreign secretary predicted that over the next few decades China would become one of the two "powers that count", along with the US, and Europe could emerge as a third only if it learne...
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Guardian on 17th May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)