Cancun
CANCUN - The UN climate summit reached the Cancun Agreement in the early hours of Saturday at the end of fortnight-long tortuous negotiations at this Caribbean beach resort.
CANCUN/NEW DELHI - In a radical departure in stance, India has proposed a "binding commitment under appropriate legal form" to tackle climate change.
CANCUN - China's envoy to a UN climate change summit said that the Asian power was committed to tackling its carbon emissions and avoiding the pattern of polluting growth taken by today's industrial powers.
CANCUN - India has made a major move towards a global treaty where its own attempts to tackle climate change may become a binding commitment under appropriate legal form.
CANCUN - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal to government ministers to take serious steps to curb global warming as he opened the high-level round of a climate change summit Tuesday in Mexico.
