COPENHAGEN–The world’s leading experts on weather-related disasters sounded much like climate scientists this morning, urging the press and the public not to interpret an annual dip in numbers as an indication that global warming is less of a threat.…
December 2009
COPENHAGEN–Week one of the UN Climate Change Conference had its dramas–leaked drafts, big stands by tiny nations, tiffs between the U.S. and China. But week one was mere prelude, in which negotiators tried to settle as many issues as possible to…
UPDATED with arrest of 968, including “black bloc” anarchists; bonfire concludes demonstration against carbon pollution.
COPENHAGEN–The sun emerged from days of cloud cover this morning and shined on tens of thousands of demonstrators as they…
COPENHAGEN–A proposal by Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman to rewrite carbon cap and trade as part of a more comprehensive energy bill echoed from U.S. officials in Copenhagen today and won praise from the chief American…
COPENHAGEN–Tens of thousands have converged on Copenhagen to stop global warming, either through a new treaty or through protests demanding more dramatic measures. Thousands more have come to lobby those people, film them, and write about them.
And…
COPENHAGEN–The world’s petroleum-based economy belongs to the past, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said here Friday.
He urged the 192 nations who sent representatives to the UN Climate Change Conference to resist pressures from those with vested…
UPDATED with comments from EU chief negotiator. Dec. 11, 2009 at 2:22 am
COPENHAGEN–European nations have stopped talking about paying their fair share and started putting money on the table for a fast-start emergency fund to help the world’s poorest…
COPENHAGEN–On Monday in Washington, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson gave President Obama the power to cut greenhouse gas emissions without help from Congress.
Moments ago in Copenhagen, she passed up numerous opportunities to threaten to use that…
COPENHAGEN–In this diplomatic dancehall of drafts of agreements, proposals for protocols, the latest intrigue swirls around a dubious document described as “the Danish text,” which created a tempest in the telling, if not in the talks.
The Guardian…
COPENHAGEN–Naomi Klein won’t go so far as to urge protesters in Copenhagen to turn violent during the United Nations conference here, but she keeps reminding them of the last time they busted windows.
Last night, Klein gave the opening speech at…
