President Jagdeo yesterday met with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar, as efforts continue for leaders to work towards a favourable outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Meeting.Among the key issues discussed was the need for some of the major economies of the world to come on board with emission cuts and the issue of financing for developing countries.

Britain’s Prince Charles has hailed the historic Guyana-Norway agreement as a good approach in the battle against catastrophic climate change as the world leaders meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, faces an uphill task trying to strike a meaningful global treaty.The Prince, who has been among international figures backing this country’s climate change model, addressed the high-level opening of the summit Tuesday night, noting that the forests of the world are being “cleared at a terrifying rate.”

Talks at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, resumed Monday afternoon after protests from developing nations forced a suspension.Discussions were limited to informal consultations on procedural issues, notably developing countries' demands for more time on the Kyoto Protocol. Some delegates talked forlornly of the vast amount of negotiating left to be done before the summit concludes, and suggested that the suspension, and the underlying tensions to which it speaks, does not bode well for the chances of any meaningful agreement.

An international campaign to force the financial sector to pay for saving the planet from global warming was boosted on Wednesday last when France joined Britain in championing a new global regime of taxes on financial market transactions (so-called Tobin taxes).The billions in potential proceeds would be earmarked for long-term measures to tackle global warming.