So Obama has finally arrived and is heading for a plenary meeting.
There will be many twists and turns before the end of the day – with talks of deals being on and deals being off, but if this conference is to succeed Obama holds the key.
But many do not seem that optimistic. Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime [...]

Cometh the hour, the saying goes, cometh the man.  But with just today and tomorrow to go in Copenhagen, the main man – the one who can make or break this Summit – President Obama, is not even here yet.
After years of international meetings – from Bali to Bangkok to Bonn – Obama will visit [...]

Slowly but surely the politicians are arriving in Copenhagen for the last few days of talks. As they sound the bell of urgency, the talks remained stalled.
Yesterday Yvo de Boer, the head of negotiations, admitted things are moving “too slowly”. That’s diplomatic speak for at the moment things are a complete disaster.
With more international government [...]

Don’t you just love it? As some 45,000 people – from governments, to business to NGOs talk about climate change and how to tackle it, the oil boys just get on with business, regardless of any outcome.
Exxon has just made the largest play in the energy market for four years, and no - its not [...]

So the second week begins and it’s not looking good at all.
The Times newspaper reports that key decisions could be delayed for up to six years if the Copenhagen summit delivers a compromise deal.
The paper says that world leaders might only agree to reviewing cuts in 2015 or 2016.