The Kyoto Protocol was not up for discussion for the United States in the new round of UN climate change talks in South Africa next week, a US official said Tuesday.
Ban Ki-moon expressed his hope that governments at COP-17 in Durban will find a compromise on the Kyoto Protocol to make a broader comprehensive climate agreement possible in the future.
A report released in Beijing Friday said there is no scientific evidence that the Three Gorges Dam has caused change to the climate.
China might face increasingly grim food shortages in the next few decades due to a possible drop in the country's grain harvest, triggered by a climate change, a leading agriculturalist warns.
Climate-change ministers from the BASIC countries have reached a consensus on a range of issues - including the Second Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol - a month in advance of a conference in Durban, South Africa.
Representatives from Brazil, South Africa,India and China (BASIC countries) met in Beijing on Tuesday to seek consensus on climate change issues.
New Zealand's chief climate change negotiator left for South Africa Tuesday to help prepare for a broad agreement on limiting emissions at the next United Nations climate change conference.
South Africa's water and environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa is due to gazette new proposals on how South Africa can meet its climate-change mitigation pledge.