Copenhagen Climate Talks

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.

World climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit.

South Africa’s political opposition and environmentalists have slammed the controversial Copehagen agreement reached by five powers, including SA.

A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states.

The new Copenhagen accord, hammered out late on Friday night with SA in a leading role, is a sham — leading climate change observers say.

A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at 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…

World leaders have reached a ”meaningful” climate accord but it is not sufficient to combat the threat of global warming, senior officials say

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.

Barack Obama’s speech at Copenhagen on Friday contained nothing significantly new to help the world reach an climate change agreement.

For Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism, failure of the Copenhagen negotiations is a forgone conclusion.

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.

With the UN climate negotiations the hottest show on Earth this week, thousands more participants than expected descended on the Danish capital.