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L’AQUILA, Italy – The chasm between rich and poor on how to address climate change burst into the open at the G-8 summit Thursday, showing how difficult it will be to persuade the world to make lifestyle and economic sacrifices needed to save the planet from global warming. ... - By NICOLE WINFIELD The Associated Press
L'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is wrapping up finitely detailed talks with his G-8 partners on economic and environmental challenges and turning to more photogenic events: meeting the pope and becoming the first black American president to visit a mostly black African country.
G8 leaders pledged $20 billion (12.3 billion pounds) in farm aid to help poor nations feed themselves, surpassing expectations on the final day of a summit that has yielded little progress on climate change and trade.
President Barack Obama plans to meet the pope and to become the first black U.S. president to visit a mostly black African country.
President Barack Obama is wrapping up excruciatingly detailed G-8 talks on economic and environmental challenges and turning to some of his most photogenic events: meeting the pope and visiting Ghana.
Anger as 'Air Miles' Andy spends £10,000 on 150-mile helicopter trip
President Obama is wrapping up excruciatingly detailed G-8 talks on economic and environmental challenges and turning to some of his most photogenic events: meeting the pope and becoming the first black American president to visit a mostly black African country.
New residential buildings in Vancouver will soon be required to include plug-ins to charge electric vehicles.
MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20-30% by 2020-2030, if the political will is there, the head of the economics and environment center of Russia's Higher School of Economics said Friday.
-- President Barack Obama proclaimed a new day for U.S. policy on climate change early Thursday, declaring, "In the past, the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities. So let me be clear: Those days are over."
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