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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States on Monday denied it had discussed with the European Commission plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions after the Kyoto Protocol runs out on 2012.Earlier, a spokeswoman for the Commission said Stephen Johnson, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, showed interest in plans for curbing emissions after 2012 in a meeting with European Environment Commission Stavros Dimoas.But an EPA spokeswoman said the discussion had instead touched on U.S....
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentBONN, Germany (Reuters) - Canada defended its leadership of U.N. talks on fighting global warming on Monday despite admitting that Ottawa will not meet its own goals under the Kyoto Protocol.Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, who is chairing the May 15-26 meetings in Bonn, has suggested that Kyoto should be softened for Canada in a second period from 2012 saying Ottawa had no chance of reaching its goals."The challenge we face in achieving the...
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentBONN, Germany -- Canada defended its leadership of U.N. talks on fighting global warming on Monday despite admitting that Ottawa will not meet its own goals under the Kyoto Protocol.Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, who is chairing the May 15-26 meetings in Bonn, has suggested that Kyoto should be softened for Canada in a second period from 2012 saying Ottawa had no chance of reaching its goals."The challenge we face in achieving the targets...
By Gerard Wynn BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany and Britain called on Monday for tougher greenhouse gas targets after the European Union said emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide fell well short of official quotas last year. The EU's carbon trading scheme, the centerpiece of its Kyoto strategy to tackle climate change, is supposed to drive pollution cuts by handing industry fewer permits to pollute than expected emissions, so firms have to buy in the extra permits. But the EU said...
By Gerard Wynn BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany and Britain called on Monday for tougher greenhouse gas targets after the European Union said emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide fell well short of official quotas last year. The EU's carbon trading scheme, the centerpiece of its Kyoto strategy to tackle climate change, is supposed to drive pollution cuts by handing industry fewer permits to pollute than expected emissions, so firms have to buy in the extra permits. But the EU said...
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentBONN, Germany -- Developing nations will urge rich countries to show more leadership in combating global warming at talks of almost 190 states in Bonn from Monday that will underscore deep rifts on climate policies.The two-day "dialogue" will struggle for common ground between almost 40 rich nations which have agreed to cap emissions of heat-trapping gases under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and outsiders including the United States and...
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOSLO -- About 190 nations meet in Germany next week to try to bridge vast policy gaps between the United States and its main allies over how to combat climate change amid growing evidence that the world is warming.The May 15-16 "dialogue" will involve around 40 rich nations which are capping emissions of heat-trapping gases under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, as well as outsiders such as the United States and developing...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases are now 35 percent above the level it promised to reach under the Kyoto climate change accord and the country would have to ground every train, plane and car to meet its target, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said on Wednesday.Ambrose, a member of the new Conservative government, says Canada has no chance of meeting a Kyoto commitment to cut emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. The target was agreed by the previous...
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Green groups across Canada united on Wednesday to demand Environment Minister Rona Ambrose step down as chairwoman of international talks looking into ways to strengthen the Kyoto protocol on climate change. Ambrose, who says Canada has no chance of meeting its Kyoto emissions targets, is due to chair a meeting in Bonn next week that will group signatories to Kyoto as well as nations that have not made commitments to cut the greenhouse gases that...
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Green groups across Canada united on Wednesday to demand Environment Minister Rona Ambrose step down as chairwoman of international talks looking into ways to strengthen the Kyoto protocol on climate change. Ambrose, who says Canada has no chance of meeting its Kyoto emissions targets, is due to chair a meeting in Bonn next week that will group signatories to Kyoto as well as nations that have not made commitments to cut the greenhouse gases that...
