COPENHAGEN – President Barack Obama is holding another one-on-one meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in hopes of sweeping aside some of the disputes that have barred a final deal at an international climate conference. That makes the second private talk of the day between the two leaders in Copenhagen. Obama also scrambled his planned schedule earlier Friday by adding two impromptu meetings with a larger group of leaders from key developed and developing nations, though China sent lower-level officials to those. China is the only nation that emits more heat-trapping gases than the United States. Officials said the two leaders took a step forward in their first set of talks and directed negotiators to keep working. The degree of progress is unclear.

Developed nations should deliver on Kyoto Protocol, says Manmohan Singh Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 18 07:30 PM Copenhagen, Dec.18 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that there is need for the developed nations to deliver on Kyoto Protocol and that there should be no dilution in the principle of equitable responsibility to share burden for climate change. Addressing the Heads of State meet at the Copenhagen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stressed that the nations should not try to replace the Kyoto Protocol with any new set of commitments and should continue negations in future as per Bali mandate.

Last-minute crumbs at Copenhagen With 24 hours to go, a minor US concession and a truce between squabbling nation blocs on Thursday allowed some crumbs to be salvaged from the Copenhagen climate summit. For India, in the months ahead, even this weak statement may imply more concessions from its stated position.Those crumbs will allow a political statement — short on specifics and long on generalities — to be crafted for 113 heads of states to sign off on Friday, last day of the conference, leaving the much harder task of a legally binding treaty to Mexico in November 2010. For India, in the months ahead, even this weak statement may imply more concessions from its stated position.

India attacks Danes for keeping political statement secret Press Trust Of India Copenhagen, December 17, 2009 First Published: 20:58 IST(17/12/2009) Last Updated: 21:12 IST(17/12/2009) Print As prospects of a deal to combat global warming appeared bleak at marathon talks here, India today attacked host Denmark for keeping the political statement under wraps even as the US accused emerging nations of "backing away" from scrutiny of their climate actions.

Biodiversity Informatics: the emergence of a field Indra Neil Sarkar1,2,3 1 Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, VT, USA 3 Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Science, University of Vermont, VT, USA author email corresponding author email BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 14):S1doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S1 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/S14/S1 Published: 10 November 2009 © 2009 Sarkar; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

World leaders address fraught climate summit Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Thu, Dec 17 04:15 PM Copenhagen, Dec. 17 -- Persistently deep divisions threatened to scupper a climate change deal in Copenhagen on Wednesday, but Africa offered a glimmer of hope by asking for less money from rich nations. "I know my proposal today will disappoint those Africans who, from the point of justice, have asked for full compensation of the damage done to our development prospects," said Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on behalf of African nations present in Copenhagen. Addressing the plenary, Zenawi endorsed UN proposals for fast-start aid of $10 billion per year between 2010 and 2012.