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Although the Copenhagen Accord set no overall emissions targets, the US is bound by law to honor its international committment to emissions-reduction.In 1992 the US signed a UN sponsored treaty intended to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the…

US President Barack Obama urged international action as the UN climate conference drew to a close. “We are running short on time…These international discussions have essentially taken place now for almost two decades, and we have very little to show …

President Obama will attend COP15 in Copenhagen where he will promise the most ambitious targets America has ever proposed to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gases.The White House has announced 17 percent emissions reductions below 2005 levels…

The following essay was written by the Danish Ambassador to the United States, Friis Arne Petersen. He was responding to news that global leaders would not reach a climate deal at climate change meetings in Copenhagen.Ambassador Petersen has had a dist…

The upcoming UN meeting in Copenhagen is the fifteenth meeting on climate change but it is not the last. The US Senate’s inability to pass climate change legislation before international negotiations begin at COP15 is not the end of the process.The Sen…

As we ease out of a serious recession it is becoming apparent that if we are to afford the costs of managing climate change the global economy must grow. The estimates of the cost of a global deal on climate change varies from less than $200 billion a …

Despite the Senate’s resistance to climate change legislation, the Obama administration has made considerable progress on the environmental front.Unlike his predecessor, President Obama heeds the dire warnings of federal climate scientists. Accordingly…

Late in October British Environment Minister Ed Miliband said “The truth is if this is left to the negotiators … I think we’ll fail,” In Singapore last weekend world leaders confirmed Miliband’s prophetic sentiment with a statement that indicated the…

Climate change in Google Earth has built a site where you “explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen i…

With 130 countries represented, this year’s Blog Action Day will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers and this year bloggers around the world are posting about climate c…