The United States finds itself in an unenviable position as the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen approaches. It has not yet achieved a true domestic consensus on the degree to ...

The clock is running out on preparations for the December climate change conference in Copenhagen. The meeting is supposed to negotiate the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. But negotiations ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 10, 2009 - The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)* on Thursday announced a proposal designed to safeguard the Earth’s climate system and to secure the future ...

Developing countries are expressing deep frustration at the attempts by wealthy nations to dissolve the Kyoto Protocol — the world’s only existing international legal instrument to cut global warming ...

As COP16 enters its second and final week observers fear a plan by the Mexican Government will see the Copenhagen Accord replace the Kyoto Protocol. Copenhagen is more up-to-date but as a non-legally ...

The world is looking at the Copenhagen climate change conference with high hopes. So world leaders meeting in the capital of Denmark, the land of fairy tales, should try their best to ensure that a ...

As the vital UN climate conference in Copenhagen reached its halfway point, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand action. We reflect on what’s been happening at the talks so ...

Here in the U.S. most folks don't even know where Denmark is. Hint, it's just a little east of Kennebunkport. But elsewhere the positioning before the December climate talks in Copenhagen has begun.

IT’S crunch time. Two years ago in a huge conference hall in Bali, after a marathon negotiating session that left some delegates in tears, envoys from 192 nations set themselves a deadline of 2009.

In detailing their much-scrutinized marriage and love story at the Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton also took care to list his wife’s numerous legislative and foreign ...

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