THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 10 2012 12:36 | LAST UPDATED Feb 10 2012 12:36 |
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Carbon cuts of 8.5% needed by 2020 to meet Copenhagen goalAhead of COP17 in Durban, a study has revealed that to meet goals for mitigating climate change, carbon emissions will have to drop 8.5% by 2020. Copenhagen is making a killingThe unflattering portrait of the city in the TV series The Killing has done nothing to damage its friendly and stylish nature. Ghost of Copenhagen stalks CancúnWorld climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit. Copenhagen: Obama fails to deliverBarack Obama's speech at Copenhagen on Friday contained nothing significantly new to help the world reach an climate change agreement. Temperatures risingWith the UN climate negotiations the hottest show on Earth this week, thousands more participants than expected descended on the Danish capital. Will we be takers or givers?This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. Arnie and the megafauna charm CopenhagenUntil now Copenhagen's most famous citizen was a girl with a fishy tail sitting on a rock. No more. UN climate negotiators hammer out initial draftNegotiators facing a Friday deadline hammered out an initial draft United Nations climate pact overnight. Something rotten in the State of DenmarkDuring the past two days the Bella Centre in Copenhagen has been a place filled with anger. Leaders fear for outcome of climate summitProspects for an ambitious accord to tame global warming darkened on Thursday with the UN summit deadlocked. |
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