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Coal sector must change dramatically: UN climate chief

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 09:45

The United Nations` climate chief urged the coal industry on Monday to make dramatic changes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions amid protests at a coal summit held on the sidelines of global climate talks.

UN climate chief urges coal industry to come clean

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 18:22

The World Coal Summit is taking place shortly after findings of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were published establishing that climate change is real and accelerating.

Under-fire Japan defends climate goal at UN talks

Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 18:19

The UN, Europe and the world`s small island states reacted with disappointment and green groups voiced fury after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia minister cites Wikipedia to dismiss bushfire-climate link

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 18:54

Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt has played down links between the country`s bushfire disaster and climate change after he "looked up what Wikipedia said".

Al Gore wades into Australia bushfire debate, slams Tony Abbott

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 18:14

Environmental activist Al Gore has likened Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott`s insistence that wildfires are not linked to climate change to the tobacco industry claiming smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Global warming linked to wildfires: UN climate chief

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:49

Wildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia.

New climate report an `alarm clock moment`: UN

Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 09:29

An imminent scientific summary on climate change will serve as an "alarm clock moment" for the world, the UN climate chief has said.

UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat

Last Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013, 09:33

UN climate talks have hit a stumbling block that some delegates say poses a serious challenge to their already slow-moving attempt to craft a global response to climate change.

Climate chief warns of `urgency` as CO2 levels rise

Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013, 22:41

The UN`s climate chief called for urgency today as she opened a new round of global talks amid warnings that Earth-warming carbon dioxide levels were approaching a symbolic threshold never seen in human history.

No climate deal unless firms join push: UN

Last Updated: Friday, January 27, 2012, 08:21

The world has no chance of sealing an emissions cut deal unless companies lobby their governments for an accord, the UN climate chief told the global business elite in Davos today.

‘Kyoto Protocol to continue past 2012’

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 15:40

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post 2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a "sunset" clause.