LONDON (Reuters) – Oil giant Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) says that it is working to explain to Canadians that underground carbon storage is safe, following rejection in the Netherlands.

Energy companies want to show they can both burn cheap coal and gas and hit climate targets by trapping carbon emissions and pumping these underground.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Negotiations meant to avert dangerous climate change are stuck over future emissions restrictions in wrangling at meetings below the ministerial level, undermining the U.N.-backed process.

The pace of talks has slowed since a two-year campaign for a binding deal ending at a Copenhagen summit in 2009, when world leaders failed to deliver, and acrimony lingers.

BONN, Germany, June 9 (Reuters) – Negotiations meant to
avert dangerous climate change are stuck over future emissions
restrictions in wrangling at meetings below the ministerial
level, undermining the U.N.-backed process.

The pace of talks has slowed since a two-year campaign for a
binding deal ending at a Copenhagen summit in 2009, when world
leaders failed to deliver, and acrimony lingers.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.

The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which represents 43 countries, said it could consider pledges on emissions cuts made voluntarily by rich nations if they were made into legally-binding targets.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world’s biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.

Tropical forests are threatened by pressures to clear land to produce food and biofuels and to plant fast-growing trees for timber, wood fuel and paper.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world’s biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.

Tropical forests are threatened by pressures to clear land to produce food and biofuels and to plant fast-growing trees for timber, wood fuel and paper.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – U.N. talks have run out of time to meet a December 2012 deadline to put in place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the U.N.’s top climate official said on Monday.

After more than three years of talks, Christiana Figueres said countries could not agree in time a full deal to follow on from Kyoto targets, which bind nearly 40 industrialized nations to emissions cuts in 2008-2012.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday.

Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference in Durban this year, placing a new focus on piecemeal efforts including fund-raising.

LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) – The world will again fall short of a full climate deal this year, after two past attempts, say developed countries which want a narrower focus on forests and funds at resumed U.N. talks next week.

A fresh postponement will all but end hopes of a binding U.N. deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol before its present round expires at the end of 2012, leaving a legal gap and possible makeshift arrangements for years.

LONDON (Reuters) – Japan will still try to meet its binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol despite the earthquake in March that set back its nuclear sector, a key source of low-carbon energy, a senior government official said.

Japan, one of nearly 40 countries that committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-2012 under Kyoto, has to contend with the unexpected impact of the quake and a tsunami that has shut down most of its low-carbon nuclear power.