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Agriculture and how it can adapt to climate change should be given more attention at Copenhagen, a group of scientists has urged.

Meeting the G8 emissions targets would mean poor countries compromising their development, Chinese researchers say.

Densely populated cities must use their financial clout to combine the fight for clean air with reducing carbon emissions, scientists say.

A UN conference has made an urgent call for developed countries to transfer climate-friendly technologies to the developing world.

Biofuels are neither a panacea nor a pariah, says a major UN report, but they must not be grown on productive cropland.

The Caribbean islands have vowed to be resolute and vigilant about climate change in a new regional agreement.

An African climate negotiator has rejected the EU's suggestion that developing countries should meet some of their climate change costs.

As the world's most populated nation puts tackling greenhouse gases on the agenda, science and technology are given centre stage.

Poor countries can continue to develop while curbing climate change, by pursuing 'climate-smart' technologies, says the World Bank.

Bangladesh will host an international climate adaptation centre that will provide training and foster dissemination of research.

Newly-developed climate models have dismissed predictions of extreme greenhouse gas emissions for India.

Africa has plenty to offer at climate negotiations in return for financial help, says its newly-elected climate leader.

The African Union looks set to demand US$67 billion a year for technology transfer, training of scientists and data collection.

India has said that it will not agree to emission reduction targets, given that it has among the lowest emissions per capita.

Climate change and space research — particularly missions to the moon — have received large chunks of funding in the new Indian budget.

Small farmers across the developing world could benefit from a project to measure the amount of carbon locked in soils.

Adaptation technologies are losing out in the climate change negotiations because they lack a single champion, say agencies.

Policymakers facing tough decisions about moving people because of climate change may be helped by a mathematical model.

The World Bank says that India must improve its climate resilience strategy, suggesting measures including a shift to dryland farming.

The UN should do more to disperse knowledge about adapting to the effects of climate change, says an international commission.