Errors in an authoritative report about the impact of global warming on Himalayan glaciers should not detract from the overall conclusions drawn in the study, the UN climate chief said.

A Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote the world's most authoritative report on global warming have apologised after five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph.

GOVERNMENTS from around the world will this week sort through the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit as the UN prepares to try again for a binding global agreement next year.

The UN climate conference in Copenhagen today approved a deal to tackle global warming proposed by world leaders, despite opposition from a number of countries.

THE largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened yesterday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.

THE WORLD is entering talks on a new climate pact with unprecedented unity and leaders must seize the moment to create a turning point in the battle against global warming, the UN’s top climate official said yesterday.

China made a pledge to slow its carbon emissions, nearly halving the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade.

CHINA, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the US offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.

President Barack Obama today announced he will attend next month’s Copenhagen climate change summit.

UN climate negotiators said yesterday that, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month, it is still possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming.

Countries most vulnerable to climate change today attacked rich nations for rethinking the global treaty timetable that would enforce legally binding emissions cut targets.

NEGOTIATORS and diplomats were working yesterday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month’s deadline, without firm US commitments.

DEVELOPING countries don’t trust wealthy nations’ promises that they will help them meet the challenges of climate change, the UN’s top climate official said yesterday, adding that means any new global warming deal must have legal force.

UN climate talks ended in deadlock today without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones.

Poor nations have made serious proposals to combat global warming and it is time for wealthier countries to give their own commitments to cut greenhouse gasses, the UN’s climate chief said today.

A fresh round of UN climate talks started in Bangkok today with leaders hoping to break the deadlock over a global warming deal and warning that failure would leave future generations fighting for survival.

AS the United States lags on climate legislation, the UN climate chief says China is poised to join the European Union in claiming “front-runner” status among nations battling climate change.

JAPAN’S next prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has delighted environmental activists but worried business leaders by vowing to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020.

THE UN’s top climate change official has said he is confident a new global warming deal can be agreed this year, but key issues remain unresolved.

The UN’s top climate change official said today he is confident a new global warming deal can be agreed this year, but key issues remain unresolved.

The World Economic Forum settled back into even-tempered discussion of global warming, help for Africa and the faltering world economy today, a day after Middle East tensions ruffled the elite gathering.

The UN’s climate chief said today he was worried the European Union may miss its deadline on a policy of emissions cuts.

Environment ministers from top industrial countries today called for an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.

Governments from nearly 200 countries will launch discussions in Thailand tomorrow on forging a global warming agreement, a process that is expected to be fraught with disagreements over how much to reduce greenhouse gases and which nations should adhere to binding targets.

NEGOTIATORS from 187 countries have agreed to launch talks which, it is hoped, will lead to a new international climate change deal.

NEGOTIATORS working into this morning expect to reach a compromise on climate-protection talks that may bow to U.S. pressure to drop emission reduction targets.

Europe today warned it will boycott American-led climate talks next month unless the country accepts targets for cutting greenhouse gases at the Bali climate conference.

Time was running out today for agreement on a road map towards a new international deal on global warming, the UN’s top climate official warned.

The United States will reject demands to commit to internationally binding cuts in global warming gases at the UN climate conference in Bali, the chief US climate negotiator said today.

America refused to back down from its opposition to compulsory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions today.

Victims of climate change appealed today for a vast increase in international aid to protect and compensate them for rising seas, crop-killing drought and other likely impacts of global warming.

Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest climate conference in Bali, Indonesia early today, aiming to achieve an international pact by 2009 to combat global warming – or risk economic and environmental disaster caused by rising temperatures.

Any agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate change conference starting in Indonesia this week would not make sense without the participation of the US, the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, the UN’s climate chief said today.

The industrial world is hurling more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before and governments have just a few years to avert calamitous climate change, the UN climate secretariat said today.

A Nobel-winning UN panel of scientists today issued a stark vision of human hardship and vanishing species in a world growing increasingly hot.

A week-long conference aimed at producing a definitive guide to global warming began today.

Climate experts from more than 100 countries opened a week-long UN conference in Vienna, Austria, today, seeking tougher commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions and turn the tide on global warming.

An international global warming conference today approved a report warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.

THE UN’s top climate change official says the EU has sent a “very encouraging” signal to developing countries by committing itself to bold measures against global warming.

Rising sea levels because of global warming stand to inundate about 2,000 islands in Indonesia by 2030, the country’s environment minister said today.

US President George Bush’s State of the Union address today failed to stir much support in Asia, where many saw it as evidence he had been politically weakened by the war in Iraq.

With few exceptions, the world's big industrialised nations are struggling to meet the greenhouse gas reductions they committed to achieve in the embattled Kyoto pact on climate change.

European participants at a UN global climate conference in Argentina are leading discussions on ways to cut greenhouse emissions after 2012, looking beyond the time frame laid out to curb global warming set by the Kyoto Protocol.