World should at least halve CO2 by 2050 - U.N. draft Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 11 08:02 PM Enlarge Photo An activist from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) stands in a poster outlining climate woes... The world should at least halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with rich nations taking the lead, according to a first draft text on Friday seeking to break deadlock on a new climate pact at U.N. talks. The 7-page document omits figures for how many billions of dollars the rich nations should give developing nations to help them shift to green energies and cope with the impact of global warming, such as desertification and rising sea levels.

COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks. The draft pulled together the main elements of a global pact that 192 nations have been negotiating for two years, but left numbers on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions — perhaps the most contentious bargaining points of the agreement — for world leaders to hammer out next week.

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Copenhagen, Dec 6 (DPA) The Organisers of the Copenhagen summit have urged world leaders to get serious about climate change Sunday as thousands of officials from more than 190 nations headed here for 12 days of negotiations aimed at stopping global warming.



'Time is up,' Ivo de Boer, the UN's chief negotiator, said as he urged leaders to deliver 'ambitious' greenhouse gas cuts over the next two weeks.



The long-awaited UN Climate Change Conference is to officially start Monday with an opening ceremony to be attended by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen.

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Copenhagen: A bad deal is worse than no deal The cat is out of the bag. However, the leaked political draft agreement crafted by the Danes holds few surprises. There is nothing in the draft Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment that was not known before. Indeed the direction has been obvious since the G-8 meeting in L'Aquila. The desire for a new agreement that negates historical responsibility, diluting obligations to provide finance and technology, dividing the developing world into new categories, requiring peaking of emissions by the more developed developing countries, and the review of domestic actions by international standards — all these have been on the table for some time.

Wen calls up Manmohan to discuss Copenhagen summit Buzz Up Share New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) As India and China face a tough task of tilting the climate change negotiations in favour of developing economies, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the Copenhagen summit. 'Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao today called the prime minister on telephone,' an official communique from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said here. 'The Prime Minister and Premier Wen Jiabao exchanged views on the forthcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Conference,' it said.