BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has decided to stick to its lowest offer for cutting carbon emissions under a U.N climate accord, but will maintain a conditional pledge to do more if others follow suit, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. Their comments after EU ambassadors met in Brussels confirmed the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to [...]

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 [...]

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Here is the plan! We have all the heads of state of the most powerful nations on the planet all in the one place at the one time. We need them to no longer be politicians but to learn how to become statesmen/women. The Copenhagen Climate Change summit (COP15) may be a singular defining moment [...]

World leaders have begun the final hours of direct negotiations. The UK Prime Minister has directly appealed to Avaaz to build the tidal wave of public pressure needed to reach a deal that stops catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees. Click to sign the petition for a real deal– the campaign already has a staggering [...]

The climate change summit in Copenhagen was in jeopardy tonight with the complex negotiations falling far behind schedule as the climate secretary, Ed Miliband, warned of a “farce”. With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today , [...]

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