Lights go out as the world begins ‘Earth Hour’

On Saturday, Sydney’s Opera House and Harbor Bridge began the Earth Hour by going dark. The routine was followed by cities across Asia, where a global switch-off aimed at revitalizing efforts against climate change was made. The Harbor ferry horns blared to signal the initiation of the energy-saving event. The event was supported by 4,000 [...]

UN welcomes climate summit

COPENHAGEN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a climate deal in Copenhagen, terming it an “essential beginning”. Speaking after the world leader adopted a motion recognizing the agreement, which the US reached with key nations including China and Brazil, Mr Ban, however, stressed that the agreement must be made legally binding next year. The [...]

‘Meaningful deal’ reached at climate summit

COPENHAGEN: The US, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” in a “historic first step forward” on climate change action at the Copenhagen summit, says a senior US official. “No country is entirely satisfied with each element but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to [...]

Last-ditch effort to salvage climate talks

COPENHAGEN: World leaders are in last-ditch efforts to strike a deal on carbon emission cuts as the climate summit in Copenhagen ends on Friday. The world leaders were trying to save the talks from complete collapse, with no agreement even on a watered-down “Copenhagen Accord”, which fell far short of the decisive action they had [...]

No new commitments to cut emissions

COPENHAGEN: US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in their addresses to the climate summit here on Friday offered no new commitments to cut carbon emissions. Many delegates at the conference hoped the China and the US, the world’s two largest carbon polluters, to salvage a deal in Copenhagen by committing to emission [...]

Clouds of uncertainity over Copenhagen talks

A draft political agreement drawn up by a small group of countries including the UK, US and Australia was rejected during overnight discussions. Delegates described the situation as “confusing” and “desperate”. There were reportedly a number of sticking points over the draft agreement. For example, there was no commitment to a legally binding treaty, which [...]

Obama arrives in Denmark

U.S. President, Barack Obama has arrived on the final day of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Barely an hour after Obama landed in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Friday, he headed into a meeting with other world leaders to hammer out an agreement on climate change. The meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference included nearly 20 [...]

Copenhagen talks go slow

Talks remain deadlocked at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, with just two days left to seal a global emissions pact. Developed and developing nations remained in disagreement over who should cut emissions, how deep the cuts should be, and how much aid should go to poor countries. But there has been some progress – wealthy nations [...]

THE U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE – COP15 – DENMARK’S EFFORTS

THE U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE – COP15 – DENMARK’S EFFORTS Denmark would be hosting the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) taking place at Bella Center in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. The conference will be the largest international political conference ever held in Denmark with participants from 192 [...]

Climate talks step up after Monday’s suspension

Negotiators at the Copenhagen summit are trying to make up for the lost time as they stepped up efforts to reach an agreement. Protests by leaders from the developing countries had led to suspension of talks for half-day on Monday. They had blamed the developed nations for trying to collapse the Kyoto Protocol, which they [...]

Developing nations’ protests stall climate talks

The developing countries’ concern that the rich nations are trying to collapse the Kyoto Protocol stalls the climate talks being held in Copenhagen. Their protests forced a suspension of talks for some time on Monday. The G77 bloc representing the developing nations says scrapping Kyoto Protocol will mean ‘killing of Africa’. It also claims that [...]