Talk about sending mixed messages to the Copenhagen talks. Yesterday, Steve blogged about how one Obama government agency - the Import -Export Bank had approved $3 billion for an Exxon gas project.
The move was a clear sop to the fossil fuel industry.
Hours later, the Obama Administration said it would regulate greenhouse gases, a step that [...]

So the countdown has ended. The Summit has finally started. An estimated 15,000 official delegates are in Copenhagen for what is being billed as a make or break Summit.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer (pictured), has just held a pre-conference press briefing where he stated: “Well the time is up. Over the next two weeks [...]

A day after being lambasted by Jim Hansen for compromising over climate change, veteran climate change campaigner Al Gore has also criticised the current CO2 targets as being way too soft.
Gore has said that anything agreed at Copenhagen can only be the first step towards much tougher CO2 targets.
“Even a final treaty will have to [...]

Good old Europe. Just when you hoped that European leaders would finally pull together and show leadership at Poznan to force through a deal, they just end up doing what they do best. Squabbling. So much so that the EU in-fighting has undermined the climate talks in Poznan.
There is no doubt that the Poznan [...]

Welcome to December. It is being dubbed a “critical month” for action on climate change. Firstly, there is the latest round of UN Climate talks, this time taking place in Poznan in Poland.
An estimated 9,000 delegates from 185 nations will meet for the next two weeks to try and work at a Post-Kyoto deal by [...]