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Africa must seize new opportunities offered by climate change battle: UN agency

27 July 2001
A new chance to fight poverty, environmental degradation and chronic energy shortages across Africa is fast emerging as a result of the latest negotiations to fight global warming, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.

Parties to UN climate change treaty adopt agreement on Kyoto Protocol

26 July 2001
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have formally adopted an operational rulebook for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sets legally binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

At climate change talks, key negotiator sees progress on several fronts

20 July 2001
A key official involved in the ongoing talks in Bonn on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said late on Thursday that negotiators had made some progress over the past few days in several areas.

Climate change talks resume in Bonn

16 July 2001
Multilateral negotiations on climate change formally resumed this morning in Bonn following an agreement last night to begin work on resolving outstanding issues before the ministerial meeting on the United Nations climate change treaty begins on Thursday.

Bonn Climate talks to focus on rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: UN

13 July 2001
Ministers and diplomats will meet in Bonn over the next two weeks in an effort to finalize the rulebook for implementing the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty's secretariat said today.