The future of the EU’s Low Carbon Revolution hangs in the balance as it becomes likely its emissions targets will be delayed again. The ongoing uncertainty is rooted in the EU’s offer to the Copenhagen climate summit of a 30% emissions cut. But this was dependent on “comparable effort” from other big polluters. Observers say [...]

The Copenhagen summit on climate change taught Europe a hard lesson about its trans-Atlantic partner. Great hope had greeted President Obama when he replaced George W. Bush at the American helm, but a year later Europeans are realizing that Mr. Obama is going to have a very difficult time delivering on his agenda. During the [...]

Powerful vested interests and climate sceptics will work overtime to block legislation and discredit the science ahead of the next global climate summit in Mexico It is often said by perceptive observers that a disconnect is in evidence in many countries between a public that want stringent action to tackleclimate change and what governments are [...]

The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The negotiations ran into the sand of the Mexican resort of Cancún, never [...]

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Strengths and weaknesses of the UN system for dealing with climate change were highlighted by the process leading to the Copenhagen Accord. When leaders from USA, China, Brazil, India and South Africa sat down together Friday night to draft the Copenhagen Accord which on Saturday became the outcome of the UN conference on climate change, [...]

World leaders insist that the climate deal clinched in desperation at the UN summit in Copenhagen is the best that can be done as they return home to a lashing from critics. Newspapers have widely called the summit accord a failure and experts such as the head of a Nobel Peace prize-winning climate panel says [...]

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Emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen summit will lead to global temperatures rising by an average of three degrees, a confidential UN analysis obtained by The Guardian reveals. A confidential UN draft marked “do not distribute” and “initial draft” shows a gap of up to 4.2 gigatonnes of carbon emissions between the present [...]

The honourable Mr. Gregory Hilbert of the Green Education Network has been moved to send out an impassioned plea, a plea I echo with every fibre of my soul. We are at the crossroads of humanity. Copenhagen is doomed to fall victim to the shameless rants of selfish self interests. Whether you believe totally in [...]