Tampa General starts procedure on wrong patient

"TAMPA -- Staff at Tampa General Hospital mistakenly started performing a cardiac catheterization last week on the wrong patient, hospital officials said Wednesday evening.The man was not harmed, and the hospital is conducting an internal investigation. Staff members failed...

Climate change meeting marked by skepticism

"The talks were "constructive" but differences remained, said an EU representative who emerged from the talks. He refused to give details or to be named.U.S. officials said the Bush administration launched the talks in a bid to advance United Nations climate change...

EU & US in war-of-words over climate treaty

"The European Union and the US have accused each other of blocking a deal to launch negotiations on a new global warming treaty as the clock runs down on UN climate talks in Bali. The UN warned the 190-nation meeting that continuing deadlock meant there was a risk that the...

Australia`s Rudd hands Kyoto papers to U.N. in Bali

"Kyoto binds 36 industrialised nations to curb emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Developing nations are exempt from targets under the pact's first phase and over the past 10 years emissions from nations such as India and China have...

Bali can succeed despite US, China: Nobel laureate

"China and the United States are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases. He was speaking just hours before he was to accept the Nobel prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The United Nations body of about 3,000 experts jointly won the...

Finance ministers meet on sidelines of climate talks

"Around 140 delegates were expected to attend the finance talks, about nine of which were of ministerial rank, mainly from Southeast Asia. Participants included Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan, whose government last week ended its opposition to the UNFCCC's Kyoto Protocol for...

Climate change demonstration in Dublin

"A demonstration is taking place in Dublin today to mark an international day of action on climate change. Bells from churches across the country rang at 2pm, signalling concern that global warming could soon have irreversible impacts. Today's demonstration coincides with a...

RI regrets some developed nations` stand on its REDD scheme

"Germany, Australia, Britain and the World Bank had not explicitly stated their commitment to the scheme, Agus Purnomo, executive chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)`s organizing committee, said here Friday."It is like being invited...

Developed nations should not use new climate regime to hide their failure

"Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Hira Jhamtani said the proposed Bali Roadmap -- a future framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012 -- received many responses from participants...

Kyoto protocol overlooked carbon emissions from biofuels

"Speaking on the sidelines of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) here Wednesday, Wetlands International representative Alex Kaat said the Kyoto Protocol supported the use of biofuels such as palm oil as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emission whereas in...

US ready to support adaptation fund

"Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the on-going conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) here on Tuesday, Watson said the United States was ready to support the adaptation fund and transfer of technology.He said he was confident the Bali...

Australia hopes Bali summit yield a "step forward"

"The hope was expressed by Australian Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday, a day after the country`s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed documents to ratify Kyoto Protocol in his bid to end his predecessor John Howard`s decade of opposition to the global...