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US calls January 30-31 climate talks

by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2008
US President George W. Bush has called major world economies to a second round of climate change talks on January 30-31 in Hawaii, the White House's Council on Environmental Quality announced.

"The two day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change," it said in a statement Tuesday.

Bush held a first round in September 2007 under an initiative he proposed in June in the face of intensifying international pressure for Washington to do more to battle greenhouse-gas emissions.

This carbon pollution, mainly derived from burning fossil fuels, traps solar heat in the atmosphere and is slowly heating Earth's surface, wreaking the first of what could be dramatic changes to the climate system.

Bush has invited Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United Nations to send representatives.

Bush, who rejects the Kyoto Protocol on curbing emissions, held the first round of talks September 28-29, and proposed a series of talks in 2008 whereby major polluters would set a long-term goal for tackling carbon emissions.

They would also discuss voluntary measures for helping poor countries acquire cleaner technology that would help them to stem their own greenhouse-gas pollution.

Bush also proposed a summit at which leaders would "finalize the goal" of long-term emissions, but this too was received with little enthusiasm and no date for the meeting has been announced.

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Slovakia halts EU legal challenge over CO2 emissions
Bratislava (AFP) Jan 16, 2008
Slovakia's government decided Wednesday to halt its legal challenge to a European Commission order to cut its carbon dioxide emissions after a compromise was reached, an official said.







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