The Copenhagen opening ceremony on Monday as the climate change summit began By Reuters COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – China led calls by developing nations for deeper emissions cuts from the United States, Japan and Europe at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, as a study showed that this decade will be the warmest on record. The first decade of [...]
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Negotiators at Climate Talks Face Deep Set of Fault Lines
Countdown to Copenhagen, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil By TOM ZELLER Jr. – The New York Times With the scientific consensus more or less settled that human activity — the burning of fossil fuels, torching of forests, and so forth — is contributing to a warmer and less hospitable planet, one might reasonably ask, [...]
Climate talks remain alive, but so do many obstacles
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved — including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an [...]
Brazilian president says ‘gringos’ must pay to protect Amazon
Associated Press Photograph: Fernando Bizerra Jr/EPA Speaking before Amazon summit, Lula calls on industrialised countries to provide financial help to halt deforestation Brazil‘s president said today that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich western countries had caused much more environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees [...]
The Amazon’s crusader, taking on the world
Photo: Elza Fiúza – Agência Brasil By Juliet Eilperin, from The Washington Post When international climate negotiators convene next month in Copenhagen, Brazilian politician Marina Silva will serve as the conference’s unofficial philosopher-activist. A native Amazonian who grew up in a community of rubber-tappers, Silva worked with murdered Amazonian activist Chico Mendes, won the prestigious [...]