Cop out or breakthrough? The Climate Group’s senior analyst Damian Ryan, just returned from Denmark, assesses the climate summit and explains what needs to happen next.
The Climate Summit in Copenhagen ended without a binding agreement on how to cut CO2 emissions. Frustration is widespread. But amid the debris, positive things remain.
Disputes over money helped sink the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Who has to pay what to whom was a key sticking point. Here is what governments have demanded or promised.
Climate policies won’t be decided in Copenhagen, says UK sociologist Lord Anthony Giddens, author of “The Politics of Climate Change”. Real climate solutions need a socio-political revolution and deals between the big world powers.
The UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen is billed as the most important international conference in 50 years. It could be critical in determining the future living conditions of our planet, says Ottmar Edenhofer, one of the world's leading climate scientists.
Mankind must confront climate change decisively. But where do we stand? Germany, the UK, and France lead. The United States has promised much. Canada and Russia are in retreat. Overall, action is “insufficient”, reports the 2009 edition of the WWF/Allianz G8 Climate Scorecards.
The world expects Barack Obama to do more for the climate and the environment than George W. Bush. But can the next president of the United States deliver climate friendly energy and environment policies in the depths of a recession?
More than a decade after a UN summit in Kyoto spawned the famous protocol on reducing greenhouse gases nations are still trying to devise a follow-up regime. What has changed?
The G8 countries are lagging behind in the race against climate change, finds a new research that measures the climate performance of G8 nations and five emerging economies.
Climate change is a global problem. So what organization would be better positioned to tackle it than the United Nations? But the UN record is as mixed, as its organizational structure.
