Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
UN climate change body discusses reform in Busan
Oct 11, 2010 04:40 EDT
Hundreds of researchers at a UN global climate change body met in South Korea on Monday to discuss reform after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented the organisation's credibility.
Little progress seen in climate talks in China
Oct 08, 2010 23:49 EDT
China, US harden positions as progress stalls in climate talks. Hopes dimmed for progress at climate talks in China as negotiators moved into their final day Saturday with little consensus.
UN biodiversity chief warns of 'difficult' North-South talks
Sep 26, 2010 18:43 EDT
Just a month before a major international meeting on biodiversity, talks remain "difficult" between northern and southern countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity chief said Saturday.
UN's biodiversity plans hit snag
Sep 21, 2010 12:31 EDT
Already deeply troubled UN plans to brake the planet's dizzying loss of species have been further damaged by a row over setting up a scientific panel to assess Earth's biodiversity, sources here say.
UN's biodiversity plans hit snag
Sep 21, 2010 11:55 EDT
Already deeply troubled UN plans to brake the planet's dizzying loss of species have been further damaged by a row over setting up a scientific panel to assess Earth's biodiversity, according to sources in Paris.
UN's biodiversity plans hit snag
Sep 21, 2010 11:07 EDT
Already deeply troubled UN plans to brake the planet's dizzying loss of species have been further damaged by a row over setting up a scientific panel to assess Earth's biodiversity, according to sources in Paris.
Arctic storms to decrease with global warming: study
Sep 15, 2010 13:53 EDT
Brief but vicious Arctic storms known as polar lows are likely to become much less frequent as global warming intensifies, scientists in Britain determined on Wednesday.
Climate: New study slashes estimate of icecap loss
Sep 07, 2010 12:08 EDT
Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.
Bangladesh dams to reclaim 600 square kms of land
Sep 05, 2010 04:46 EDT
Bangladesh plans to build a series of dams to reclaim 600 square kilometres (230 square miles) of land from the sea over the next five years, officials said Sunday.
Bangladesh dams to reclaim 600 square kms of land
Sep 05, 2010 04:02 EDT
Bangladesh plans to build a series of dams to reclaim 600 square kilometres (230 square miles) of land from the sea over the next five years, officials said Sunday.
Into the Atlantic - Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion
Sep 03, 2010 12:03 EDT
A home right on the beach has proved anything but a dream for Frances Kwessi, 35, who has watched sea erosion destroy her house room by room, as the Atlantic washed up on her doorstep.
Financing said vital for world climate change deal
Sep 01, 2010 10:17 EDT
GENEVA (Reuters) - A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.
India backs embattled IPCC chief Pachauri
Sep 01, 2010 03:16 EDT
India's government said it remained fully supportive of IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri after a damning UN-ordered review called for changes to the Nobel Prize-winning climate change body's leadership.
U.N. to study impact of incomplete climate action
Aug 31, 2010 15:03 EDT
OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
Rajendra Pachauri: IPCC chief in the spotlight
Aug 31, 2010 02:24 EDT
Rajendra Pachauri, under harsh scrutiny as head of the UN's top advisory body on climate change, is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels.
Report: Climate science panel needs change at top
Aug 30, 2010 17:37 EDT
Review of Nobel-winning climate panel urges major management change, but not Pachauri's ouster. Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it's run, but stopped short of calling for the ouster of the current leader.
U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to science
Aug 30, 2010 17:05 EDT
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel should make predictions only when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body.
UN climate panel ordered to make fundamental reforms
Aug 30, 2010 17:04 EDT
An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
UN climate panel ordered to make fundamental reforms
Aug 30, 2010 13:57 EDT
An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
UN climate panel must 'fundamentally reform'
Aug 30, 2010 12:41 EDT
A UN-ordered review said Monday that the global panel on climate change needed to "fundamentally reform" how it operates after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
