The United States' chief negotiator at UN climate talks in Bonn told delegates yesterday that Washington would not ratify the Kyoto accord on global warming, whatever the result of the meeting.

President George W. Bush was accused by senators in both parties and scientists on Wednesday of mishandling US policy on global warming. "The way President Bush handled this whole Kyoto thing - from

The Australian Government was being "morally irresponsible" by not offering the people of Tuvalu - a tiny South Pacific island nation threatened by rising seas - special immigration treatment, a

The United States may not be able to submit by the next U.N. climate talks in October an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, due to remaining hurdles in reaching a consensus, sources involved in

Nearly eight months after formal talks over a proposed climate treaty fell apart in The Hague, negotiations resumed here today in nearly as tangled and troubled a state. Informal talks started on

The European Union was poised to clash with its main industrial partners at the talks on global warming over the role of forests in tackling climate change. Differences on the use of forests to

Canada and three allies have put forward a new proposal they hope will break the impasse in climate negotiations in Bonn. The proposal, backed by Russia, Japan and Australia, would allow countries to

As diplomats weigh the future of the ailing Kyoto global warming pact in Bonn through next week, a group of US-based traders in the heartland aims to help cut greenhouse gas emissions by creating a

Canada strongly backed a proposed treaty against global warming today, dispelling any notion that its support depends on the United States and rejecting U.S. arguments that the pact is flawed. "We do

For the second time in six weeks, President George W. Bush having rejected the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, is visiting Europe without a strategy on global warming, an issue of deep concern to