The real test will come next year in Glasgow, when countries have to make concrete commitments to reducing emissions
During secret negotiations, the US pledged to cut its emissions by 28% by 2025 and China promised to reach a peak in emissions by 2030.
World climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit.
South Africa’s political opposition and environmentalists have slammed the controversial Copehagen agreement reached by five powers, including SA.
A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states.
The new Copenhagen accord, hammered out late on Friday night with SA in a leading role, is a sham — leading climate change observers say.
A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at Copenhagen.
Chaos and farce reigned at the birth of a climate accord agreed by a clique of leaders, with statesmen going missing, critics crying foul and hacks stampeding on vain hunts for…
World leaders have reached a ”meaningful” climate accord but it is not sufficient to combat the threat of global warming, senior officials say
The M&G has seen a draft of the Copenhagen accord and negotiations are expected to last late into the night to hammer out a final agreement.
Barack Obama’s speech at Copenhagen on Friday contained nothing significantly new to help the world reach an climate change agreement.
For Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism, failure of the Copenhagen negotiations is a forgone conclusion.
The Copenhagen talks may have failed to produce a deal – when the M&G went to press that certainly looked likely – but they have succeeded too.
With the UN climate negotiations the hottest show on Earth this week, thousands more participants than expected descended on the Danish capital.
Copenhagen summit is on a hiding to nowhere, with no agreement likely now
Amidst the buzz and hype of Copenhagen and only two negotiating parties matter — Physics and Chemistry, argues climate crisis campaigner Adam Welz
Prospects for an ambitious accord to tame global warming darkened on Thursday with the UN summit deadlocked.
Firebrand leaders Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Robert Mugabe turned up the heat at the United Nations climate talks on Wednesday.
UN climate talks move into the final two-day straight on Thursday blighted by bitter wrangling that could wreck efforts to draw up a sweeping pact.
The Kyoto Protocol is in ”intensive care” and global negotiations to extend the pact have stalled, India’s environment minister said on Wednesday.
