The climate change wake-up call
Developing countries shifted their stance in a year that started after failure in Copenhagen and ended with optimism at CancúnThe year 2010 started inauspiciously with the spectacular failure of the...
View ArticleDevelopment scorecard: where points were won and lost in 2010
Real progress was made on the millennium development goals, and 2011 brings a chance to make up for missed opportunitiesAs 2010 draws to a close, it is worth reflecting on what the year has delivered...
View Article2010: The year in environment
The BP oil spill, climate science under the spotlight, soaring global temperatures and UN climate talks - the stories of 2010 in pictures
View ArticleBan Ki-moon ends hands-on involvement in climate change talks
UN secretary general will redirect efforts to making more immediate gains in clean energy and sustainable development• Yvo de Boer on Ban's green growth agendaBan Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary...
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Ban Ki-moon must shift the UN's focus to take climate into the mainstream debate on sustainable development• Ban Ki-moon ends hands-on involvement in climate change talksThe Cancún climate change...
View ArticleReheating the climate change story | Jules Boykoff
The media have dropped climate change, with its tricky science. But cast in economic terms, it could recapture public interestHere's a climate conundrum: while scientists declared 2010 to be the...
View ArticleWhy the UN can never stop climate change | David G Victor
For any progress to be made, diplomacy should shift to smaller forums, with achievable goals and focus on adaptationOn Sunday in Thailand diplomats opened another round of formal United Nations talks...
View ArticleDurban climate deal impossible, say US and EU envoys
BusinessGreen: Todd Stern and Connie Hedegaard write off any chance of countries agreeing legally binding emissions targets in DecemberThe chances of agreeing a legally binding deal to tackle climate...
View ArticleBonn climate talks: Developing nations question funding commitment
Money promised 18 months ago to help countries adapt to climate change has not been made availableThe UN climate talks re-opened in Bonn on Monday with developing countries increasingly resentful that...
View ArticleNeeded: a world leader | David King
At home, the PM is doing well on green issues. Now he needs to take the fight into the global arenaIn January 2004 I caused some consternation, particularly in the White House, when I said that global...
View ArticleClimate change: learning the lessons of the past 50 years | Stephen P Groff
We must draw on our experience of development co-operation to ensure climate change funds are effectively usedFew would dispute the need to mobilise funds to support developing countries in dealing...
View ArticleClimate talks: China calls on developing countries to 'step up'
China bids to bridge gap between rich and poor nations by urging emerging economies to make concrete emission reduction plansDeveloping countries must step up with concrete plans to cut carbon...
View ArticleGreen Climate Fund to discuss $100bn pledged by rich countries
UN body set up to be world's single biggest source of financing for climate change mitigation faces complex and difficult taskThe fate of billions of dollars of promised funding from rich countries to...
View ArticleThe highs and lows of 15 years of climate talks - in pictures
From Yvo's tears to Durban deadlock, we look back at the highs and lows of the last 15 years of climate talks since the Kyoto protocol was signedEric HilaireJessica Aldred
View ArticleGlobal climate talks timeline – interactive
How the global climate talks have progressed from 2005, when the Kyoto protocol became legally binding, to this year's negotiations in Doha, QatarChristine OliverShiona Tregaskis
View ArticleThe climate change wake-up call
Developing countries shifted their stance in a year that started after failure in Copenhagen and ended with optimism at CancúnThe year 2010 started inauspiciously with the spectacular failure of the...
View ArticleDevelopment scorecard: where points were won and lost in 2010
Real progress was made on the millennium development goals, and 2011 brings a chance to make up for missed opportunitiesAs 2010 draws to a close, it is worth reflecting on what the year has delivered...
View Article2010: The year in environment
The BP oil spill, climate science under the spotlight, soaring global temperatures and UN climate talks - the stories of 2010 in pictures
View ArticleBan Ki-moon ends hands-on involvement in climate change talks
UN secretary general will redirect efforts to making more immediate gains in clean energy and sustainable development• Yvo de Boer on Ban's green growth agendaBan Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary...
View ArticleBan Ki-moon's green growth agenda can bring climate to the heart of the UN |...
Ban Ki-moon must shift the UN's focus to take climate into the mainstream debate on sustainable development• Ban Ki-moon ends hands-on involvement in climate change talksThe Cancún climate change...
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