Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century and keep alive a goal of limiting a rise in temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the United Nations said.

Pledges to tackle climate change made by countries ahead of crucial global talks are “surpassing expectations”, the UN’s climate chief has said.

Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s chief business adviser has accused the UN of using debunked climate change science to lead a new world order, provocative claims made to coincide with a visit from the top UN climate negotiator.

Women should be at the forefront of decisions on sustainable development and climate change mitigation, write Mary Robinson, Christiana Figueres, and Amina Mohammed

United Nations climate talks meant to lay the groundwork for a new pact to fight global warming have opened in Warsaw with thousands of delegates from nations and environment organisations from around the world

Paul McCartney is kicking up a stink with top politicians at the international climate talks to save the environment by controlling animal wind.

Nearly 200 countries launched a fresh round of UN climate talks in Doha, facing urgent appeals to scale up the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.

CLIMATE negotiators agreed a pact yesterday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.

Talks have opened under the UN international climate treaty to seek ways to curb ever-rising emissions of climate-changing pollution.

THE UN’s top climate official said yesterday she expects governments to make a long-delayed decision on whether industrial countries should make further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

CARBON dioxide emitted by energy use hit a record high last year, dimming prospects for limiting global warming to two degrees celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.

China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, opened a United Nations conference on climate change today, aimed at narrowing differences before a major end-of-year meeting in Mexico.

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres yesterday warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year.