WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord to fight global warming and raised the prospect that a fuller international pact may be not be struck by year's end. A United Nations-sponsored climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December fell short of its ...

Reynolds American Inc. reports its fourth-quarter and full-year results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: The nation's second-biggest cigarette company, Reynolds sells Camel, Pall Mall and Natural American Spirit cigarettes and it owns American Snuff Co., which makes Kodiak and Grizzly ...

Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialized nations are a step forward but not enough to forestall the disastrous effects of climate change by midcentury, U.N. officials said Monday. Janos Pasztor, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's top climate adviser, said the goals, submitted to ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway reaffirmed on Thursday a unilateral pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent by 2020 as part of international efforts to combat global warming. Environment Minister Erik Solheim also restated a policy announced in October that Oslo was willing to deepen the cuts to 40 percent below 1990 levels if other nations showed ...