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Miliband calls on EU to back 30 per cent emissions cut
Ecologist
7th January, 2010
The EU needs to commit to a 30 per cent reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels and push others to a higher level of ambition, says climate secretary more...Ed Miliband: China tried to hijack Copenhagen climate deal
John Vidal
21st December, 2009
Climate secretary accuses China, Sudan, Bolivia and other leftwing Latin American countries of trying to hijack Copenhagen more...Politicians have failed, business is now our only hope
Dan Box
21st December, 2009
This blog is unlikely to win me many friends among readers of the Ecologist, but it needs to be said: after Copenhagen, we must accept that big business is just about the best hope we have left more...Copenhagen fails to deliver deal on tackling climate change
Ecologist
19th December, 2009
The UN has failed to reach a unanimous deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preventing dangerous climate change at the talks in Copenhagen more...Copenhagen: concession and compromise
Mark Anslow
18th December, 2009
Climate negotiations are always a balancing act. But the global atmosphere is not a politician, and it won't forgive us if we get this wrong more...Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi: a 'Western stooge'?
Phil England
17th December, 2009
African nations react angrily to a funding compromise struck by the newly appointed head of the African delegation, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Listen to his speech, and the reaction more...Poem: "I suppose it must snow"
Stephen Pain
17th December, 2009
Stephen Pain's poem fears the momentum for tackling climate change could be lost in a white Christmas more...COP15: 'We will not just discuss procedure'
Ecologist
17th December, 2009
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen attempts to force negotiations at COP15 forward, saying 'we will not just discuss procedure, procedure, procedure' more...Bolivia's Pablo Solon: 'how do you compensate Mother Earth?'
Phil England
16th December, 2009
The Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, explains why over 100 countries are now backing a proposal to acknowledge the rights of nature in a climate change agreement more...The most democratic part of Copenhagen: the queue
Harriet Williams
16th December, 2009
While the inside of COP15 may be the preserve of those with power and influence, the queue to get into the Bella Center is where the rich and famous rub shoulders with the rank and file... more...Climate expert: Copenhagen is 'four years behind the science'
Arthur Girling
16th December, 2009
Head of the Potsdam Institute and climate change advisor to the German government, Professor John Schellnhuber explains why COP15 is based on out-of-date science, but why he still has hope for a positive outcome more...'There's a lot of money looking to get involved in REDD'
Phil England
15th December, 2009
In an interview at Copenhagen, Bill Barclay of the Rainforest Action Network explains why the huge amount of money behind forest carbon schemes could lead to the tail wagging the dog more...
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Todd Stern: 'the US is doing a lot'
Ecologist
15th December, 2009
US chief climate negotiator, Todd Stern, argues about baselines at Copenhagen, and tells delegates that the US is 'doing a lot' more...Schwartzenegger: 'let us regain our purpose'
Ecologist
15th December, 2009
The Governator delivers a stirring speech to delegates at Copenhagen, but warns them not to 'put so many eggs into the international agreement basket' more...'Climategate' is the first in a new wave of attacks
Chris Genovali
15th December, 2009
The emails hacked from the servers of the University of East Anglia continue to cause controversy. But it was not a singular attack, says Chris Genovali, just the only successful one so far... more...Copenhagen: peasant farmers can save the planet
Ed Hamer
15th December, 2009
Carbon reduction potential of ecological farming methods is highlighted at Copenhagen, as protests against industrial agriculture gather strength more...Copenhagen could lead to increase in intensive farming
Ed Hamer
14th December, 2009
All sectors must play their part in a global emissions deal, but could including agriculture in the mix lead to an intensification of farming and money for GM crops? more...Solar India: why climate finance is so important
Anna Da Costa
14th December, 2009
As negotiators haggle in Copenhagen over the levels of financial assistance to be provided to less-industrialised nations, Anna Da Costa highlights the difference this money could make more...VIDEO: The US must commit at least $3.5bn in climate aid
Ecologist
13th December, 2009
The EU's chief negotiator at Copenhagen, Artur Runge-Metzger, tells journalists that he expects the US to contribute at least $3.5 billion to the climate aid budget more...Todd Stern: No US climate targets without China
Ecologist
13th December, 2009
US climate negotiator Todd Stern makes it quite clear to the COP15 delegates: no China, no deal... more...Europeans 'are acting as if they are climate sceptics'
Phil England
13th December, 2009
In a stinging attack on developed nations, G77 leader Lumumba Di-Aping blasts Gordon Brown for his offer of £500 million of climate aid more...Obama can act on climate change without Congress
Phil England
11th December, 2009
There's a popular myth that without the US Congress passing a climate change bill, President Obama can't sign up to binding emissions targets. It's wrong, says Kassie Siegel, of the Center for Biological Diversity more...A 'Dow Jones' index for the world's climate
Ecologist
12th December, 2009
The sheer number of different measurements used to show evidence of climate change is dizzying. Now, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme has boiled them down to one, simple graph more...Atlantic Rising: Why Sierra Leone will be screwed at COP15
Will Lorimer
10th December, 2009
The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries more...Video: Yvo De Boer plays down the 'Danish text' at Copenhagen
Ecologist
10th December, 2009
Listen to three high-level responses to the leak of the now infamous 'Danish text' more...