The Copenhagen Conundrum

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 1, 2009 Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn't with the science, it's with the solutions.The shell game being played with climate change isn't with the science, it's with the solutions. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

China Sets Its Greenhouse Gas Target

Staff / Truthdig Nov 27, 2009 A day after the Obama administration issued a provisional target for greenhouse gases, China -- the world's largest emitter of gases -- has jumped on the bandwagon and announced it too has set a target to slow its gas emissions by 2020. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama to Make a Cameo in Copenhagen

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2009 The United States will take part, after all, in next month's United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen President Barack Obama will attend the meeting, if only for a day, to do his part for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the White House also announced (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 23, 2009 There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down No one in the White House will do it No one in Congress will do it And no one at the coming UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will do it. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Breaking the Law for the Environment

Staff / Truthdig Nov 6, 2009 "Illegal protest" can count a new baritoned bedfellow. In an interview ahead of the Copenhagen climate change conference, former Vice President Al Gore pronounced civil disobedience to be justified, believing that the global warming crisis requires more forceful methods of political activism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Danish PM Hopeful About Copenhagen Climate Summit

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2009 Even if all the countries slated to show up in Copenhagen for next month's climate talks are represented around the negotiating table, there remains a huge amount of work to do. For one, a legally binding measure to replace the Kyoto Treaty has yet to be created. Still, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is "optimistic" about the summit. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

EU Agrees to Pre-Copenhagen Deal

Staff / Truthdig Oct 30, 2009 It looks like the EU is anteing up for December's Copenhagen conference on global warming, agreeing to a conditional deal that estimates climate change will need almost $150 billion every year until 2020, and that the EU is prepared to pay its "fair share" -- though poorer countries say it's still not enough. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Two Arrested for Alleged Plot on Danish Paper

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2009 Two men from Chicago were arrested recently for allegedly plotting to attack overseas targets, including the Danish newspaper that sparked a huge controversy in 2006 by running the now-infamous cartoon of the prophet Mohammed sporting an explosive turban. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Expert to Obama: Come to Copenhagen

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2009 President Obama may think he's skipping December's United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, but one Lord Stern of Brentford has a message for him and other world leaders taking a stubborn stance on the subject. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China and India Join Forces on Climate

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2009 China and India, which together represent well over a third of the world's population, will be negotiating in concert at the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen The two booming economies produce most of the developing world's CO2, but they've also made big commitments -- China especially -- to (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lowered Expectations

Staff / Truthdig Sep 26, 2009 President Obama has lowered the bar for December's Copenhagen climate change conference by talking down the importance of arriving at an agreement on global warming by the end of the year. Obama's position contradicts the United Nations and others who see the conference in Denmark as a crucial moment for stemming climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 2, 2009 The 2009 Copenhagen climate conference will be critical to the success or failure of establishing a practical, binding global plan of action before human-caused climate change reaches the point of no return, creating a cascade of catastrophes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )