The real test will come next year in Glasgow, when countries have to make concrete commitments to reducing emissions
African countries stand a good chance at COP21 of getting their ideas across, while there will also be a better opportunity to access climate finance.
During secret negotiations, the US pledged to cut its emissions by 28% by 2025 and China promised to reach a peak in emissions by 2030.
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/ 5 December 2010
World climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit.
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/ 20 December 2009
South Africa’s political opposition and environmentalists have slammed the controversial Copehagen agreement reached by five powers, including SA.
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/ 19 December 2009
A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states.
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/ 19 December 2009
The new Copenhagen accord, hammered out late on Friday night with SA in a leading role, is a sham — leading climate change observers say.
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/ 19 December 2009
A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at Copenhagen.
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/ 19 December 2009
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.
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/ 19 December 2009
World leaders have reached a ”meaningful” climate accord but it is not sufficient to combat the threat of global warming, senior officials say
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/ 18 December 2009
The M&G has seen a draft of the Copenhagen accord and negotiations are expected to last late into the night to hammer out a final agreement.
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/ 18 December 2009
Barack Obama’s speech at Copenhagen on Friday contained nothing significantly new to help the world reach an climate change agreement.
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/ 18 December 2009
For Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism, failure of the Copenhagen negotiations is a forgone conclusion.
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/ 18 December 2009
The Copenhagen talks may have failed to produce a deal – when the M&G went to press that certainly looked likely – but they have succeeded too.
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/ 18 December 2009
With the UN climate negotiations the hottest show on Earth this week, thousands more participants than expected descended on the Danish capital.
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/ 18 December 2009
Amidst the buzz and hype of Copenhagen and only two negotiating parties matter — Physics and Chemistry, argues climate crisis campaigner Adam Welz
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/ 18 December 2009
Copenhagen summit is on a hiding to nowhere, with no agreement likely now
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/ 17 December 2009
Prospects for an ambitious accord to tame global warming darkened on Thursday with the UN summit deadlocked.
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/ 17 December 2009
Firebrand leaders Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Robert Mugabe turned up the heat at the United Nations climate talks on Wednesday.
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/ 17 December 2009
UN climate talks move into the final two-day straight on Thursday blighted by bitter wrangling that could wreck efforts to draw up a sweeping pact.
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/ 16 December 2009
The Kyoto Protocol is in ”intensive care” and global negotiations to extend the pact have stalled, India’s environment minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 December 2009
Ban Ki-moon suggested that a deal on climate change might not include a figure on financial aid for developing countries, a report said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2009
World leaders began arriving at the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks.
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/ 14 December 2009
The UN climate summit hit major turbulence on Monday when developing nations walked out of key negotiations and China accused the West of trickery.
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/ 7 December 2009
Negotiators and top scientists at UN climate talks on Monday slammed the theft of emails from experts at a British university.
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/ 4 December 2009
With just days to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the world waits for China to set its carbon target.