©Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during the session "Global Economic Outlook"

IMF plans 100 billion fund to help poor mitigate climate impact
17:12 GMT

The International Monetary Fund is planning a 100 billion dollar fund to help countries mitigate the effects of climate change, the agency's head said.

©Canada has aligned itself with the US in setting a 2020 carbon emissions target of 17 percent below 2005 levels

Canada matches US carbon emissions target
17:42 GMT

Canada has aligned itself with the United States in setting a 2020 carbon emissions target of 17 percent below 2005 levels, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Sunday.

©A plane flies over a cattle farm as it prepares to land at Auckland International Airport

New Zealand joins Copenhagen climate change accord
08:33 GMT

New Zealand confirmed Monday it was joining the Copenhagen Accord on climate change and was submitting its existing conditional 2020 target for reducing carbon emissions.

©Handout photo provided by the Royal Society shows Isaac Newton's 'Death Mask'

Ancient and modern: First science academy is 350 years old
22:23 GMT

From its classical pillars and porticoed entrance to its oil paintings of great men and women and archives that include the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton, history sits grandly on the Royal Society.

©Smoke belches out of chimneys at the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station in India

India reaffirms opposition to binding carbon cuts
08:01 GMT

India reaffirmed to the United Nations that it would reject any attempt to impose legally binding climate change goals, but pledged to reduce emissions intensity.