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Envoys from more than 190 nations worked into a third night as United Nations global-warming talks in Doha became bogged down over issues including pledges worth $100 billion.
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The world’s richest and poorest countries are divided over whether to create a new fund to help vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh, Kenya and the Philippines cope with loss and damage caused by climate changes.
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Envoys inched toward a deal at United Nations global-warming talks in Doha after working through the night to settle differences on climate aid and fossil-fuel emissions, paving the way to a new treaty by 2015.
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President Barack Obama’s envoy at United Nations global-warming negotiations said he’s willing to participate in discussions on the issue of fairness in how nations plan to curb climate change, paving the way for drafting a new treaty by 2015.
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The U.S. brushed aside demands from Brazil, China and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for richer countries to detail how they’ll deliver $100 billion in climate aid by 2020.
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As leaders in Washington obsess about the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama is putting in place the building blocks for a climate treaty requiring the first fossil- fuel emissions cuts from both the U.S. and China.
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U.S. and Bolivian negotiators said climate talks in China are making little progress as issues including financing and carbon-emissions limits bog down envoys.
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The U.S., Saudi Arabia and Venezuela joined to raise concerns about the United Nations Green Climate Fund, delaying work on the mechanism aimed at delivering as much as $100 billion a year in aid to developing nations.
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The push to extend legal restrictions on carbon emissions is deadlocked, threatening the United Nations climate program based around the Kyoto Protocol, said the head of the U.S. delegation at talks in Germany.
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The U.S. is concerned that envoys at United Nations climate talks are “backtracking” on an agreement made in 2009 in Copenhagen, the country’s lead negotiator at the talks said.
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