11.   Trumka used blunt words when he spelled out for the White House the views of the labor movement on the climate change talks.

12.   China, for example, emerged for the first time as a key player in climate talks in Berlin.

13.   Environment Minister David Anderson says the Europeans flubbed a major opportunity in climate talks last fall when they failed to strike a deal with the outgoing Clinton administration.

14.   Its release coincided with the last day of international climate treaty talks in Morocco aimed at reaching a deal to curtail global warming.

15.   New climate talks are to begin in May in Germany.

16.   Oil-producing nations threaten to derail climate talks.

17.   Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson is leading an EU delegation to Washington on Monday for climate talks with U.S. officials.

18.   The climate talks have already failed once when a conference last November in the Netherlands collapsed in a last-minute dispute between the United States and the Europeans.

19.   The United States will participate in the next round of climate talks in July in Bonn, Germany, administration officials said.

20.   Toepfer said it is crucial for countries to restart the climate change talks that stalled in The Hague at the end of last year.