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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Bjoern Lomborg, the bad boy of the climate debate who has rejected for years “alarmist” prophecies from environmentalists, stresses in a new book the need to invest billions to fight global warming.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Almost 50 nations made progress on Friday toward a “Green Fund” to help poor countries fight global warming but hosts Mexico and Switzerland said a full U.N. climate treaty was out of reach for 2010.

GENEVA (AFP) – Forty-six countries gained a clearer view on Friday of what it may take to secure a deal worth hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid, an issue that threatens hopes for a treaty on global warming.

GENEVA (Reuters) – A website launched on Friday will help track whether rich countries are keeping a pledge to come up with $30 billion in climate aid for the poor, seen by the U.N. as a “golden key” to progress in talks on global warming.

GENEVA (Reuters) – About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.

GENEVA (Reuters) – About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.

GENEVA (Reuters) – A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland’s top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.

OSLO (Reuters) – The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of “second best” ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – A UN-ordered review said Monday that the global panel on climate change needed to “fundamentally reform” how it operates after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN’s climate panel needs to “fundamentally reform” its structure to prevent the kind of embarrassing errors found in a landmark 2007 study on global warming, a review said Monday.

OSLO (Reuters) – Aid promises from rich nations to help poor countries slow global warming are reaching the $30 billion goal agreed in Copenhagen but analysts say much of that is old funding dressed up as new pledges.

MOSCOW (AFP) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin queried Monday whether man is to blame for climate change only to spark a heated response from a German scientist., during a visit to a remote Russian Arctic zone.

PARIS (AFP) – A UN-requested review of the world’s top panel of climate scientists, accused of flaws in a key assessment on global warming, will be unveiled on August 30, the investigating committee said on Friday.

GENEVA (AFP) – Ministers will meet in Switzerland next month to discuss crucial financing to curb the impact of global warming, ahead of the UN climate conference in Cancun, Swiss authorities said on Thursday.