AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been [...]

As President Obama heads to Copenhagen next week for global warming talks, there’s one simple step Americans back home can take to help out: Stop “going green.” Just stop it. No more compact fluorescent light bulbs. No more green wedding planning. No more organic toothpicks for holiday hors d’oeuvres. December should be national Green-Free Month. [...]

Emissions cuts proposed by the world’s leading countries fall far short of what is needed to prevent catastrophic global warming, according to a study released on the eve of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Even if countries adopted the most ambitious targets that each has put forward, the global average temperature would still rise by [...]

DELEGATES turning up to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—known as the Copenhagen conference—face a fortnight of negotiation, beginning on Monday December 7th, almost as rich in complexity as in hyperbole. The range of different possibilities in the negotiations means that there is, potentially, something for everyone, [...]

AROUND 100 world leaders are set to attend the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen to discuss a global deal to replace the Kyoto protocol. This will be tough. Scientists estimate that greenhouse-gas emissions from rich countries need to be cut by 25%-40% to keep global warming to a 2ºC rise above pre-industrial levels. The offers [...]

Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) — The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape. It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life. But this is the reality of Sumatra, [...]

(Charleston) Environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr. will headline a rally outside the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Monday. Kennedy, the son of the late Bobby Kennedy, is a long time environmental lawyer and activist. He’s been arrested for trespassing due to his activism and even spent a month in prison. Kennedy will gather with several [...]

A recent article at Green Inc. compared the carbon footprints of several European nations’ heads of state, with Britain’s Gordon Brown having the largest carbon footprint of the group (8400 tonnes in 2008). How does the President of the United States stack up against European leaders in this area? Some attempts have been made to [...]