Environmental treaties

Environmental treaties

• UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat

  U.N. 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 ... 

• EU greenhouse gas emissions lowest to date

  The EU's environmental agency says the 27-nation bloc's greenhouse emissions in 2011 were the lowest since it began monitoring them in 1990. 

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  Nations agree to new chemical ban, export controls

  A summit on chemicals and hazardous wastes ended Friday with an agreement to globally phase out a widely used flame retardant and to accept stricter ... 

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  Gorbachev sees global failure to address eco-risks

  Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress, two decades after he founded the ... 

• Poland aims to pave way for 2015 climate deal

  Hoping to win over EU critics of Poland's recent stance on climate change, the environment minister said Friday that the coal-powered nation will make ... 

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  Buoyed by Obama, leaders press for climate action

  Hurricanes, floods, droughts and a newly climate-conscious Barack Obama are helping boost efforts around the world to fight climate change. 

• AP Interview: UN chief wants action on climate

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says his top hopes for 2013 are to reach a new agreement on climate change and to urgently end the increasingly ... 

• More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercury

  A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted Saturday by more than 140 nations, capping four ... 

• More than 130 nations begin mercury treaty talks

  Delegates from more than 130 nations began a final round of negotiations on Sunday that are expected to lead to the creation of the first legally ... 

• UN finds rising mercury emissions, need for treaty

  Mercury pollution in the top layer of the world's oceans has doubled in the past century, part of a man-made problem that will require international ...