Representatives from the US and the European Union (EU) were optimistic about the possibility of reaching a global agreement to combat climate change, but stated that the negotiations for a new climate treaty will be anything but easy. After two days of meetings of the 17 largest and emerging economies in the world, there [...]

The international community set a final date to agree on a plan to reduce greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, but there was no assurance that an agreement will be forged. In the hope of averting a potential failure of the planet, nearly 2,000 scientists, including the most eminent climate scientists worldwide, met from March [...]