Climate summit recognises US deal
BBC News - 26 minutes ago
Delegates at the Copenhagen summit have passed a motion recognising a US-backed agreement on climate change. But correspondents say it is not yet clear whether the motion is unanimous or what its legal implications are. Delegates at the climate summit ...
Copenhagen climate summit: confusion as 'historic deal' descends into chaos
Telegraph.co.uk - - 1 hour ago
The “historic” climate change deal at the Copenhagen climate summit has descended into chaos after some developing nations rejected the plan for fighting global warming championed by US President Barack Obama. By David Barrett and Louise Gray, ...
Copenhagen climate summit: world leaders miss best chance
Telegraph.co.uk - - 42 minutes ago
World leaders missed the best chance they are ever likely to get to stop global warming escalating out of control as the Copenhagen climate conference fizzled to a close. By Geoffrey Lean in Copenhagen President Obama appeared to have reached a deal ...
Thin climate accord a small step in long process
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
COPENHAGEN — A furious final two days of climate diplomacy and presidential brinkmanship produced 2 1/2 thin pages called the Copenhagen Accord, a deal vague at times in meaning, rejected by some, lacking any teeth. "This particular text falls far ...
Correspondents' log
BBC News - 1 hour ago
BBC correspondents report on the reaction around the world to a climate change deal proposed by Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the US at the UN conference in Copenhagen. "Dealmaker-in-chief" is how one US-based political website described ...
Obama brokers a climate deal, doesn't satisfy all
The Associated Press - - 3 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall ...
Climate change chaos in Copenhagen
InTheNews.co.uk - 27 minutes ago
The climate change summit in Copenhagen failed to reach a final deal last night, with delegates hoping to find an agreement today. A deal led by US President Barack Obama, and including China, was deemed inadequate by some of the leaders, ...
Chaos greets new climate pact
AFP - 3 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — Chaos and farce reigned at the birth of a climate accord agreed by a clique of leaders, with statesmen going missing, critics crying foul and hacks stampeding on vain hunts for Barack Obama. Fatigue fermented a feverish cocktail of human ...
UN conference has approved climate deal
CTV.ca - 13 minutes ago
After a round of all-night talks, the Copenhagen summit on climate change has come to an agreement on a framework for fighting carbon emissions. Details on the deal are to be announced shortly. The US announced late Friday that it had reached a ...
Climate deal meets furious reception
AFP - 5 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — Fury erupted Saturday at a gruelling climate summit as poor nations ripped into a deal agreed by a core group of world leaders which even its supporters admitted would not stem global warming. US President Barack Obama said he reached an ...
Climate summit recognises US deal
BBC News - 31 minutes ago
Delegates at the Copenhagen summit have passed a motion recognising a US-backed agreement on climate change. But correspondents say it is not yet clear whether the motion is unanimous or what its legal implications are. Delegates at the climate summit ...
Copenhagen climate conference: global warming talks meltdown
Telegraph.co.uk - - 15 minutes ago
The Bella Centre in Copenhagen looks more like the aftermath of a particularly messy house party rather than the place where 120 of the most powerful men and women have just met to discuss saving the planet. By Louise Gray, in Copenhagen The largest ...
Copenhagen climate summit: confusion as 'historic deal' descends into chaos
Telegraph.co.uk - - 1 hour ago
The “historic” climate change deal at the Copenhagen climate summit has descended into chaos after some developing nations rejected the plan for fighting global warming championed by US President Barack Obama. By David Barrett and Louise Gray, ...
Copenhagen climate summit: world leaders miss best chance
Telegraph.co.uk - - 47 minutes ago
World leaders missed the best chance they are ever likely to get to stop global warming escalating out of control as the Copenhagen climate conference fizzled to a close. By Geoffrey Lean in Copenhagen President Obama appeared to have reached a deal ...
Thin climate accord a small step in long process
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
COPENHAGEN — A furious final two days of climate diplomacy and presidential brinkmanship produced 2 1/2 thin pages called the Copenhagen Accord, a deal vague at times in meaning, rejected by some, lacking any teeth. "This particular text falls far ...
Blogs
Text of Obama Official's Remarks on Climate Pact
Wall Street Journal (blog) - 7 hours ago
President Barack Obama reached an agreement to tackle climate change at the United Nations climate summit Friday. Afterward, a senior administration ...
Reaction to climate deal
Boston Globe (blog) - - 8 hours ago
"President Obama's hands-on engagement broke through the bickering and sets the stage for a final deal and for Senate passage this spring of major ...
A Sham” and “A Climate Crime Scene” or “A Major Step Forward”? Mixed Reactions ...
ABC News (blog) - 10 hours ago
A Sham” and “A Climate Crime Scene” or “A Major Step Forward”? Mixed Reactions from Environmental Groups on Copenhagen Accord “The Copenhagen outcome is not ...
Reaction to climate deal
Boston Globe (blog) - - 8 hours ago
"President Obama's hands-on engagement broke through the bickering and sets the stage for a final deal and for Senate passage this spring of major ...
A Sham” and “A Climate Crime Scene” or “A Major Step Forward”? Mixed Reactions ...
ABC News (blog) - 10 hours ago
A Sham” and “A Climate Crime Scene” or “A Major Step Forward”? Mixed Reactions from Environmental Groups on Copenhagen Accord “The Copenhagen outcome is not ...
Obama Claims Victory On Climate Agreement
Atlantic Online (blog) - - 10 hours ago
His critics back home have harped on how any international agreement won't be legally binding, and, to be sure, this agreement won't be, but President Obama ...
Obama: Meaningful Climate Deal Not Binding
NPR (blog) - - 10 hours ago
After hours of negotiations at the Copenhagen climate talks, President Barack Obama didn't come away with a binding deal with other nations, ...
Copenhagen Climate Conference Ends With Whimper, No Legally Binding Pact, No ...
FOXNews (blog) - 11 hours ago
President Barack Obama called it a "meaningful" beginning to a new global consensus toward limiting green house gas emissions, but acknowledged climate ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change – So What if We're Wrong?
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) - - 12 hours ago
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, underway this week in Copenhagen, is a clarion call to action. In today's plenary speech, ...
The deal in Denmark
Politico (blog) - 12 hours ago
The United States, China, India and South Africa have reached a "meaningful" climate change deal that sets a cap on worldwide temperature increases at no ...
Obama calls climate deal 'unprecedented' but admits it falls short
Boston Globe (blog) - - 9 hours ago
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff COPENHAGEN -- The United States , China , India , Brazil, and South Africa tonight reached what President Obama called a ...
Copenhagen Blues? White House Announces 'Meaningful Agreement'
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 13 hours ago
So maybe there was a last-minute breakthrough at Copenhagen after all—if not the big one. Our troops in Copenhagen report that the White ...
Copenhagen Blues: A Last Desperate Push at Climate Summit
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 13 hours ago
The latest draft accord floating around—there appear to be several, actually—dropped the 2010 deadline for reaching a binding international ...
WH's Gibbs Rescues US Media In Copenhagen
NPR (blog) - - 13 hours ago
How bad were tensions between the US and Chinese delegations in Copenhagen? So bad that Chinese officials barred the US media from a joint ...
How The G2 Get On
Sky News (blog) - 14 hours ago
There's lots of talk that the only global powers who matter are the so called Group of Two, G2, of the USA and the rising power of China. ...
Negotiations get tense, draft accords circulate
Boston Globe (blog) - - 12 hours ago
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff COPENHAGEN -- As President Obama engaged in tense negotiations with world leaders tonight, leaked draft climate deals with ...
A Climate Accord Evolves Again
New York Times (blog) - - 15 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — A few hard numbers are starting to appear in a draft political agreement that now seems to be the crux for negotiations at ...
A tale of two superpowers
BBC News (blog) - 15 hours ago
1926 CET: It's supposed to be about two degrees. It appears to have come down to two men. As I write, US President Barack Obama and China's Prime Minister ...
Dispatch from Copenhagen: The Final Day Countdown
BusinessWeek (blog) - - 16 hours ago
After two weeks of negotiations, global leaders now have less than 24 hours to hammer out a deal to tackle climate change. Inside the Bella Center — the ...
Obama pushes climate deal as talks go to wire
Baltimore Sun (blog) - 16 hours ago
Warning that "we are running short on time," President Obama huddled with China's premier in Copenhagen in a bid to iron out differences holding up a new ...
Obama Calls for Agreement on Climate Change
New York Times (blog) - 17 hours ago
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama addressed the session at the World Climate Conference in Copenhagen on Friday morning. ...
Obama's Copenhagen Speech: Some Reactions
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 18 hours ago
For all the expectations that President Barack Obama's appearance at the Copenhagen climate conference could part the waters and break the ...
Senior White House Official: The 'Chinese Are Dug In'; 'We've Done What We Can ...
ABC News (blog) - 19 hours ago
"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are ...
Obama turns up heat at climate talks
Washington Post (blog) - 19 hours ago
By Ben Pershing Is President Obama losing his trademark cool over global warming? Not quite, but the temperature in Copenhagen does appear to have risen ...
Politics Today: Obama Calls for Action in Copenhagen
CBS News (blog) - - 19 hours ago
CLIMATE CHANGE: "A clearly frustrated President Barack Obama displayed impatience Friday with world leaders' failure to reach agreement on a new climate ...
Not Your Grandfather's Climate Summit
CBS News (blog) - - 20 hours ago
US leaders usually only attend world gatherings when they know they can return home with firm achievements. But as he arrived at the UN summit on climate ...
Copenhagen Talks Stumble, Obama “Doubts” Collective Action, Faults Chinese
FOXNews (blog) - 20 hours ago
UPDATE: Obama just concluded a 55-minute meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa deemed "constructive" and a "step forward" by a White House official. ...
Green Ink: Obama's Bid to Save Copenhagen
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 20 hours ago
Crude oil futures rose above $74 a barrel due to encouraging economic news and signs of a potential rebound in demand, Bloomberg reports. ...
Grading Obama's Copenhagen Speech
Newsweek (blog) - - 20 hours ago
While most Americans slept, President Obama spoke to delegates Friday morning in Copenhagen on the final day of the UN climate conference. ...
White House: Obama, Chinese Premier Hold "Constructive Discussion" on Climate ...
ABC News (blog) - - 20 hours ago
COPENHAGEN -- As the negotiations on a climate change agreement continue, President Obama met with Chinese Premier Wen for 55 minutes here to try and work ...
Even a Nobel Prize winner can't bluff China
Globe and Mail (blog) - - 21 hours ago
The Chinese, who've been negotiating for a heck of a lot longer than the United States has been on the map, are fully aware of President Barack Obama's ...
COP15: 'Nothing new' in Obama's speech
BBC News (blog) - 21 hours ago
1335 CET A year ago, I sat in a news conference at the UN climate conference in Poznan and listened to Senator John Kerry pledge that an Obama ...
Obama in Copenhagen: World Should 'Embrace' Climate Accord
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 21 hours ago
After keeping delegates in Copenhagen waiting while he huddled with a score of world leaders, seeking a last-minute breakthrough to the ...
Obama: Climate Change Agreement Not Perfect, But a 'Substantial Step Forward'
ABC News (blog) - 22 hours ago
COPENHAGEN -- Acknowledging that the climate change agreement world leaders are considering here in Copenhagen is not perfect, President Obama said that ...
Climate change and big figures
BBC News (blog) - Dec 18, 2009
The figure "$100bn" slips easily off the tongue. It is headline-catching. If there is a climate deal in Copenhagen, that figure may have helped break the ...
Carbon Tariffs: Rep. Levin Dishes On Obama, India in Copenhagen
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - Dec 18, 2009
That's the gist of remarks Friday by Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.), in Copenhagen to observe the United Nations climate summit. ...
Obama dives into Copenhagen talks
Los Angeles Times (blog) - Dec 18, 2009
President Obama brought a blast of optimism to the snowy streets of Copenhagen this morning, diving into climate negotiations in their final hours. ...
Obama In Copenhagen; Climate Change Talks 'In Disarray'
NPR (blog) - - Dec 18, 2009
The UN climate talks were in serious disarray Friday, with delegates blaming both the US and China for the lack of a political agreement ...
Copenhagen: Deal Or No Deal?
Sky News (blog) - Dec 18, 2009
A few yards from where I write, Barack Obama and other world leaders are sitting around a table trying to hammer out a political declaration which will ...
Must avoid 'hollow victory' in Copenhagen, Obama says
Boston Globe (blog) - - 20 hours ago
COPENHAGEN – President Obama arrived in the frigid Danish capital today to shake loose climate negotiations, saying the next ...
The Presidential Planner Abroad
ABC News (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
ABC's Sunlen Miller reports: After traveling overnight, President Obama will land in Copenhagen, Denmark early this morning and immediately enter into ...
Obama's High Stakes Copenhagen Gamble
ABC News (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: President Obama will fly overnight to Copenhagen, Denmark this evening, for the tail-end of the climate ...
Obama Hopes for Better Result in Copenhagen
CBS News (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
If President Obama comes home empty-handed from the UN conference on climate change, it'll be the second time in three months he's been cut down in ...
WH plays down Climate deal before Obama trip
FOXNews (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN - Repeatedly citing the "incredibly complex" negotiations stalling a long-sought climate change deal here, senior Obama officials said hours ...
Dispatch from Copenhagen: Clinton Joins $100 Billion Pledge
BusinessWeek (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
The climate change summit must be reaching its climax because the big hitters have started to arrive. In the late morning on Dec. 17, it was US Secretary of ...
Deal or Not, Obama Heads to Copenhagen
New York Times (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
The last time President Obama traveled to Copenhagen, he was unable to persuade the International Olympic Committee to award the Summer Games ...
White House Confirms Obama Will Head to Copenhagen
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
The White House said President Barack Obama still plans to attend the Copenhagen climate-change summit, rebuffing speculation he would ...
As Climate Talks Teeter, US Ponies Up Cash Promise
FOXNews (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN - With global climate change talks veering off and precariously back on the tracks, the US offered unspecified sums as part of a $100 billion ...
Signs of Movement on Money and Trust
New York Times (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN — The political and diplomatic pressure to produce a meaningful agreement on climate by the weekend is clearly having an ...
China asks developed world to show more sincerity
eTaiwan News (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
AP China asked developed countries on Thursday to show "more sincerity" as the UN climate conference in Copenhagen neared its end. ...
China urges 'more sincerity' at climate talks
eTaiwan News (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
AP China is asking developed countries to show "more sincerity" in climate negotiations as the UN conference in Copenhagen nears its end. ...
Clinton says US will join $100ba year climate deal
Boston Globe (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that the United States would help create a $100-billion-a-year fund ...
US Offers Climate Aid for Poor Countries, But With Strings
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today in Copenhagen that the US would help raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to help finance the ...
China Sees No Deal In Copenhagen
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - Dec 17, 2009
Apparently they can. Chinese officials said early Thursday they don't see any chance of getting even an interim agreement out of the ...
Hillary pledges US will join $100 billion developing nations fund
Politico (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has played her biggest card yet as hopes for a Copenhagen accord fade -- committing the US to a multinational ...
COP 15 fizzle: China nixes "operational agreement"
Politico (blog) - Dec 17, 2009
China's climate negotiators have told Western counterparts they can't agree to an “operational agreement” on climate change that President Obama had hoped ...
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
South Dakota Politics (blog) - 3 hours ago
Representatives of 193 concerned nations have been clinking and drinking in this friendly old girl of a town. They have also been pouring tons of carbon ...
Copenhagen Talks Extended to the Weekend
Blog for Iowa (blog) - - 3 hours ago
By Month By Year by Simeon Talley Obama's speech essentially reiterated the US's already stated position – mitigation commitments by all major economies, ...
Copenhagen: Obama Announces Climate Deal, UNFCCC Crumbles?
Energy Collective (blog) - - 3 hours ago
In a late night press conference at the close of the international climate negotiations in ...
Highlights from the Proposed 'Copenhagen Accord' on Climate Change
SolveClimate (blog) - 4 hours ago
by SolveClimate Staff - Dec 18th, 2009 The proposed "Copenhagen Accord" announced by US President Barack Obama at the international climate talks is short, ...
Obama's Copenhagen Pact Unravels
SolveClimate (blog) - - 5 hours ago
A new global warming pact, heralded by US President Barack Obama as "an important milestone" and considered a done deal ...
Compromise Climate Deal Reached in Copenhagen
Politics Daily (blog) - 5 hours ago
President Obama announced late Friday that an "unprecedented breakthrough" had been achieved toward a global agreement to fight climate change. ...
Obama's Copenhagen Climate Deal--Real or Not?
Politics Daily (blog) - 6 hours ago
COPENHAGEN -- The final deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, which was convened to develop a comprehensive international response to the threat of global ...
United States
Obama brokers limited agreement at climate summit
Dallas Morning News - 1 hour ago
COPENHAGEN – President Barack Obama helped broker a climate deal Friday with a group of leading nations that provides for monitoring domestic emission cuts ...
Nations hash out climate deal
Chicago Tribune - - 1 hour ago
COPENHAGEN — - Leaders of the world's largest economies agreed late Friday to take steps to curb greenhouse gas ...
Climate talks leave unsettled atmosphere
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago
President Barack Obama hailed it as an "unprecedented breakthrough." Oxfam International, which works on climate and poverty issues around the world, ...
United Kingdom
UN conference has approved climate deal
CTV.ca - 18 minutes ago
After a round of all-night talks, the Copenhagen summit on climate change has come to an agreement on a framework for fighting carbon emissions. ...
In pictures: Final hours
BBC News - 37 minutes ago
In Copenhagen, the US, Chinese and three other leaders reached an agreement late on Friday on fighting climate change but their deal caused widespread ...
Correspondents' log
BBC News - 1 hour ago
BBC correspondents report on the reaction around the world to a climate change deal proposed by Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the US at the UN ...
India
Global highlights of the week
Business Standard - 1 hour ago
PTI / December 19, 2009, 14:22 IST Copenhagen: India will not agree to a concept of "peaking" year as there is a huge backlog of development in expanding ...
Dramatic turn of events at Copenhagen in the last few hours
Economic Times - 1 hour ago
19 Dec 2009, 1358 hrs IST, PTI WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama walking uninvited into a meeting of Prime Ministers of China and India and Presidents ...
Analysis: Climate deal won't cap warming, big gaps
Moneycontrol.com - 2 hours ago
A climate deal among world leaders including US President Barack Obama puts off many tough decisions until 2010 and sets the planet on track to overshoot ...
London, UK
Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama risks China's anger over satellite ...
Telegraph.co.uk - - 1 hour ago
President Barack Obama has suggested he would be prepared to use satellite technology to ensure China sticks to carbon emissions commitments agreed in an ...
Copenhagen climate summit: world leaders agree deal but concede it does not go ...
Telegraph.co.uk - - 2 hours ago
World leaders at the Copenhagen climate conference agreed an unprecedented last-minute deal to combat global warming but immediately conceded that the ...
Copenhagen climate summit: Brown struggles to salvage an agreement
Telegraph.co.uk - - 3 hours ago
Britain battled through Friday to salvage a deal that could bring global warming under control, as the climate summit entered its crucial final stages. ...
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Climate deal on knife edge as poor nations vent fury 12 minutes ago - Sydney Morning Herald | |
Climate talks go into overtime, PM Manmohan called back 13 hours ago - Times of India | |
New climate draft drops 2010 deadline for treaty 17 hours ago - The Associated Press | |
Climate: China, US narrow gap on verification, say experts 18 hours ago - AFP | |
Chinese premier: Will honor climate commitments 22 hours ago - The Associated Press | |
Obama hopes to seal the climate deal in Copenhagen Dec 18, 2009 - The Associated Press | |
Copenhagen summit talks 'made no progress overnight' Dec 18, 2009 - Times Online | |
Doubts over Copenhagen summit's last day Dec 18, 2009 - BBC News | |
Negotiators labor toward dawn at climate talks Dec 17, 2009 - The Associated Press | |
US, China inch toward climate deal Dec 17, 2009 - Toronto Star |
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