The are on them and that “our planet has reached a point of crisis”, leaving only seven years before “we lose the levers of control” on the climate. The prince was addressing ministers at the formal opening of the high-level talks. “It is no understatement to say that, with your signatures, you can write our [...]

The president of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Connie Hedegaard, resigned this morning. She is to be replaced by the Danish premier. “With so many heads of state and government having arrived it’s appropriate that the prime minister of Denmark presides,” Hedegaard told the 192-nation meeting. “However, the prime minister has appointed me [...]

There will probably be some kind of agreement at Copenhagen. It’s hard to imagine all those world leaders walking away without one. However I’m not spending anytime at all wondering what the result will be. Why? Because it just doesn’t matter. You see we’re not ready to fix climate change, not yet. We have not [...]

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Yesterday, Al Gore issued a bold challenge from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, calling on Members of Congress to pass clean energy and climate legislation in the United States by next April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. In an inspiring speech that was interrupted often with outbursts of applause and [...]

With one day to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. World’s leaders now arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming of 2 degrees. Click below to sign the petition for a [...]

Scientists stunned after ex-Vice-President says Arctic could be ice-free in five years Al Gore yesterday faced an inconvenient truth of his own after a blunder over arctic ice levels. Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit for the first time, Mr Gore quoted new research that showed the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five [...]

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