In what reporters are calling a “surprise U-turn,” the United States changed its position on future cooperation regardin climate change as the UN Climate Change conference ended in Montreal this weekend.
After American delegates walked out of the United Nations climate change conference in Montreal over the wording of a draft statement calling for international [...]
As the UN Climate Conference ends, over 150 countries have agreed to work toward a second phase for the Kyoto protocols. The United States alone refused to endorse the new round, despite strong efforts from many of its allies and former US President Bill Clinton:
The US administration was facing condemnation last night after it refused [...]
Attendees at the UN Climate Conference were told that, based on research by a variety of organizations including insurance companies, the world faces an increasing and unprecedented series of climate-related financial crises:
This yearās figures, partly as a result of the highest number of hurricanes or tropical storms ever seen since records began in 1850, are [...]
Blogging from the Montreal UN Climate Negotiations summit, UK Guardian writer Simon Retallack suggests that the rest of the world “re-engage the US only once a new president was installed in the White House in just three years time.” Read the complete story, with links to other days’ blogs, here.
The UK Guardian has assembled a Special Report on global warming, including sections on weather change, government policy, technological solutions, and the politics of environmental protection. The main page for the Special Report contains links to many stories.
The UK Guardian reports:
The world scored an abysmal two out of 10 for its efforts in trying to save the planet from environmental mayhem this year.
That is the stark view of the World Economic Form (WEF), which has blasted governments for failing to make progress on global warming and on the safeguarding of the world’s [...]