- 20:43 23/12/2009
Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Wednesday his country could host an international summit on climate change in April, which could become an alternative to Copenhagen climate talks held in December, Latin American media reported.
- 15:03 23/12/2009
If we take a leap of faith and believe the weather forecasters, by New Year's Day we will once again emerge from freezing weather to above-zero temperatures and slush. On the other hand, Europe, which will soon be celebrating Christmas, will be inundated by snow and cold. Or maybe the other way around. This may be connected with man-made global warming and climate change, and it may not - belief in this phenomenon, or disbelief fuelled by the energetic efforts of opponents of the theory, has almost turned into a matter of taste.
- 09:46 22/12/2009
The Chinese Foreign Ministry accused on Tuesday British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, who criticized China's stance at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, for trying to undermine relations between developing countries.
- 18:48 21/12/2009
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev met on December 18 on the sidelines of the climate change summit in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear reductions.
- 17:16 21/12/2009
The entire world is discussing climate-related issues after the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 7-18, 2009. Global warming raises average worldwide temperatures and destabilizes the climate.
- 18:01 19/12/2009
The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
- 13:38 19/12/2009
The climate summit in Copenhagen has agreed and accepted a summary document, a Russian delegation member said on Saturday.
- 03:34 19/12/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said the UN climate change Copenhagen conference is a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough."
- 20:53 18/12/2009
A Kremlin aide described on Friday the ongoing UN climate change Copenhagen conference as unsuccessful, but said there was still a chance a declaration could be adopted.
- 18:09 18/12/2009
Danish police prevented youth environmental organization activists from forming a live chain around the Bella Center in Copenhagen where the UN climate conference is underway, organizers said Friday.
- 17:41 18/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday Russia was ready to sign a new legally binding climate treaty.
- 15:59 18/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday Russia was ready to sign a new legally binding climate treaty.
- 15:27 18/12/2009
A political agreement at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen may not be ready by the end of the forum, a Russian delegation source said on Friday.
- 12:00 18/12/2009
Dozens of world leaders will be arriving in Copenhagen on Friday for the final day of United Nations talks on climate change.
- 04:46 18/12/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said a failure in Copenhagen would be catastrophic and backed calls by developing nations to keep the Kyoto Protocol.
- 03:48 18/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has met with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Copenhagen, where he arrived on Thursday in order to take part in the UN climate change conference.
- 22:42 17/12/2009
The head of a Russian energy strategy institute has claimed that fears over planet-warming emissions are exaggerated, and that observed climate change is in fact due to the slowing of the Earth's rotation.
- 21:53 17/12/2009
The World Wildlife Foundation has welcomed a Russian climate doctrine signed by the president earlier on Thursday.
- 20:32 17/12/2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday pointed to capitalism and liberal economics as the main causes of man-made climate change, and called for a new global economic system.
- 19:53 17/12/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not go as expected. It became clear a week before it ended on December 18 that a new global agreement to combat climate change beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires, will not be signed.
- 19:48 17/12/2009
The United States is ready to participate jointly with other countries in programs to reduce damage from the global warming in developing countries, the state secretary said Thursday.
- 13:07 17/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a national climate doctrine, Kremlin aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Thursday.
- 12:09 17/12/2009
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with riot police outside a conference center in Copenhagen on Wednesday where 193 countries were discussing a new global climate pact.
- 17:42 16/12/2009
What is the real cause of the global climate change? Director of the Energy Strategy Institute, Professor Vitaly Bushuyev, shares his opinion on this matter. He believes mankind is on the verge of a new global crisis, which will affect all aspects of our lives, as well as some changes humanity will have to accept and try to adapt to,because we can’t do much to prevent them from happening.
- 17:17 16/12/2009
Climate activists inside the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen staged a sit-in on Wednesday accusing officials of expelling Friends of the Earth members who had been accredited to attend the conference.
- 16:37 16/12/2009
The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has not produced a deal on climate change as leaders of 193 nations are beginning to arrive for a summit expected to sign a pact to fight global warming.
- 16:03 16/12/2009
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with riot police outside a conference center in Copenhagen on Wednesday where 193 countries were discussing a new global climate pact.
- 19:39 15/12/2009
Most scientists agree that human activity is the main cause of global warming, which is the focus of the ongoing climate conference in Copenhagen
- 17:19 15/12/2009
Russian scientists believe that the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will produce no tangible results, a leading Russian expert said on Tuesday.
- 16:57 15/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the international community to take joint measures against global climate change.
- 23:28 14/12/2009
A number of developing countries proposed on Monday suspending the UN climate conference in Copenhagen and resuming it in June in Bonn, a convention source said.
- 20:49 14/12/2009
Sudan, the current chair of the G77 group of developing countries, led on Monday a boycott of talks at UN climate talks in Copenhagen.
- 19:04 14/12/2009
Some 30,000 people took to the streets of Copenhagen on December 12 to demand action to cope with climate change from the participants of a UN climate conference underway in the Danish capital
- 16:44 14/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Monday the importance of post-Kyoto deals, regardless of whether scientists' notions of climate change are accurate.
- 13:03 14/12/2009
Russia will restrict its greenhouse gas emissions to 25% of 1990 levels by 2020, President Dmitry Medvedev promised on Monday.
- 10:27 13/12/2009
The Copenhagen police have released almost all protesters detained during a mass climate change rally in the Danish capital, the BBC reported on Sunday.
- 19:44 12/12/2009
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday to demand action to cope with climate change from the participants of a UN climate conference underway in the Danish capital.
- 16:42 11/12/2009
Leaders of the 27 EU member states have resolved to allocate over 2.4 billion ($3.5 billion) annually to fight global warming in developing countries, Sweden's prime minister said on Friday.
- 15:39 11/12/2009
Russia currently has no plans to sell its greenhouse gas emission quotas, the Kremlin climate change adviser told reporters on Friday.
- 10:58 11/12/2009
Countries taking part in a UN climate change conference in Denmark are looking to a meeting of leaders later this month to advance a solution to cuts in carbon emissions, a senior Russian delegate said.
- 22:00 10/12/2009
China expects more effort from the European Union and the U.S. on emissions reductions targets, the deputy head of the Chinese delegation said at a news conference in Copenhagen.
- 19:20 10/12/2009
A two-day European Union summit that opens in Brussels on Thursday will be held for the first time without the participation of its 27 members' foreign ministers.
- 18:01 10/12/2009
Russia is ready to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25% from the 1990 level only as part of a new comprehensive climate accord, a delegate at the ongoing UN climate change conference said.
- 14:02 10/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen on December 17-18, the Kremlin press office said on Thursday.
- 21:48 09/12/2009
A Russian scientist warned on Wednesday that Western Europe and Russia's northwest are among the regions likely to be hard-hit by rising sea levels due to climate change.
- 20:32 09/12/2009
Participants in the UN climate change conference underway in Copenhagen resumed on Wednesday after a two-hour halt due to a dispute between small island states and large countries, a WWF official said.
- 16:18 09/12/2009
The concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere has reached a record level. This video illustrates the dangers of global climate change. The video by RIA Novosti news agency was featured at the Speak Your Opinion contest.
- 16:15 09/12/2009
The carbon dioxide content in the planet’s atmosphere reached its highest level in a million years, the results of which are climate change. You can help stop global warming before it’s too late! A video by RIA Novosti warning of the threats of climate change was featured at the Speak Your Opinion contest.
- 16:13 09/12/2009
Forty percent of the planet’s wildlife and plants may face extinction in 50 years due to global climate change. You can help stop global warming before it’s too late! A video by the RIA Novosti news agency was featured at the Speak Your Opinion contest.
- 16:11 09/12/2009
Global warming was a natural process unrelated to human activities, a Russian climatology expert said on Wednesday during a video link-up between Russian and Chinese scientists.
- 21:32 08/12/2009
A treaty due to replace the Kyoto Protocol will not satisfy Russia if it obliges only developed countries to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 19:00 08/12/2009
Several thousand Green activists marched through central London on the eve of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. They urged world leaders to sign a new agreement on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
- 18:15 08/12/2009
Experts from The Economist Intelligence Unit named Copenhagen Europe's "greenest" major city, followed by Stockholm, Oslo, Vienna and Amsterdam.
- 18:12 08/12/2009
Climate change talks in Copenhagen are likely to end in a "roadmap" for future talks, with no legally binding agreement concluded, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Tuesday.
- 16:33 08/12/2009
Countries negotiating a new climate change deal are unlikely to strike a detailed agreement and are now primarily negotiating the status of future talks, a Russian expert said on Tuesday.
- 12:47 08/12/2009
The 15th UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) opened in Copenhagen. Expectations were that it would replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new agreement on climate protection.
- 21:41 07/12/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The global United Nations conference on climate change finally began in Copenhagen today. It will be held from December 7 to December 18.
- 19:58 07/12/2009
Russians are less concerned about the climate change problem than other European nations, according to a global poll by GlobeScan for the BBC.
- 19:06 07/12/2009
Energy efficiency and energy saving are the key to reducing the human imprint on climate change, a Russian expert said on Monday.
- 15:53 07/12/2009
The 15th UN climate change conference, a result of two-year international talks on a binding treaty to cut the global emission of greenhouse gases, opened on Monday in Copenhagen.
- 02:34 07/12/2009
The 15th UN Climate Change Conference will open on Monday in Copenhagen to discuss a new legally binding agreement on the reduction of carbon emissions.
- 00:10 05/12/2009
Ahead of the Copenhagen international conference on climate change, Alexander Kokorin, the head of the Climate and Energy Programme of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Russia, spoke to RIA Novosti.
- 14:10 02/12/2009
Eleven international news agencies have launched a joint Facebook page to interact with news consumers across the globe during the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.
- 21:53 19/11/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - Russia still knows how to surprise the world. This was true long ago and is still true today.
- 20:43 05/11/2009
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The UN conference on climate change, to be held in Copenhagen on December 7-18, is unlikely to seal anything more than routine pledges to address the problem of global warming.
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