Climate change policy

The World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) International called on governments to come up with urgent and universally binding agreements and to commit to a sustainable fight against climate change ahead of the upcoming COP21 climate summit to take place in Paris, during the G-20 Summit.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington and Paris are to step up effort to destroy the Islamic State (IS) group.

Three basic changes to car excise duties for 2016 are being promoted by the government, according to a ministerial decree to be published on Monday at the latest.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed regret on Nov. 12 over reported remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that the Paris climate summit will not deliver a binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions.

"I think that it's a formulation which could have been more fortunate," Fabius told journalists on the sidelines of the EU-Africa summit in Malta.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an discussed climate change in a video-conference call on Nov. 6, according to the world body.

The call focused on how to achieve a successful outcome at next month's climate change conference in Paris, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.

Bulgaria's business climate climate indicator has advanced by 1.3 percentage points in August  compared to July, mainly due to improved managers' opinions in industry and retail trade, the country's statistical office announced on Friday.

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants at home, international media outlets reported.

Whereas an earlier version of the plan required a 30% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, the new version increases that target to 32%.

President Barack Obama framed climate change as the toughest and most pressing challenge of our time on August 3, as he unveiled the first ever limits on US power plant emissions.

"No challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate," Obama said, warning: "There is such a thing as being too late."  

US President Barack Obama will August 3 unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency said on June 15.