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Move lays the groundwork for an economy-wide carbon cap even if Congress fails to enact climate legislation, sources familiar with process say.

U.S., China have not offered to go far enough to combat climate change, a top EU official says as climate summit opens.

For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads....

The vow comes a day after Obama promised a cut by the U.S., and leaders of both countries now say they'll attend a climate summit next month.

China pledged today to increase its efforts to limit "greenhouse" gases, and said that Premier Wen Jiabao would attend the Copenhagen climate summit next month.
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President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month for the climate-change summit, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Climate change skeptics say content proves data rigged to pin cause of global warming on humans.

A key U.S. Senate environment committee approved a Democratic climate change bill on Thursday that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

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 Monday, adding that means any new global warming deal must have legal force ...

The leading sponsor of a U.S. Senate climate bill says action to combat global warming will raise energy prices, but also create ...

At an meeting on climate change in Copenhagen in December, officials now expect only incremental progress on a global deal.