Dec 11 Ray Suarez: Monumental Week for Climate Ahead in Copenhagen By Ray Suarez Just keep repeating to yourself: If any of this was easy, Kyoto would have worked. It's been 12 years since delegations from around the world met in Japan to discuss a coordinated global response to rising levels of greenhouse… Continue reading
Dec 10 Judy Woodruff: China Could Make or Break Copenhagen The reporting I've done in the past few days on the Copenhagen summit tells me we may discover one more piece of evidence, as if we needed it, of China's growing global influence. A senior U.S. official at the… Continue reading
Dec 09 Tempers Rise over Danish Text at Climate Summit By Talea Miller Tension between rich and poor countries hovered over climate negotiations in Copenhagen Wednesday, as developing nations fumed over the leak of a climate document drafted by Denmark. The 13-page document, known as the Danish text, was drawn up outside… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch Climate Pact Elusive in Copenhagen as Stakes Rise Rallying cries for a global reduction in emissions grew louder at an international climate change summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday. Yet as Judy Woodruff reports, a deal is still far from complete. Continue watching
Dec 08 New Warnings and More Debates on Day Two of Copenhagen By Murrey Jacobson It's Day Two of the big climate change summit in Copenhagen and if some of today's headlines tell you nothing else, it should convey both the difficulty of getting something significant done in the next two weeks and the… Continue reading
Dec 07 EPA Decision ‘Obligates’ Action on Greenhouse Gases As leaders from nearly 200 countries open a two-week summit in Copenhagen to work on a climate change treaty, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this afternoon that greenhouse gases are dangerous to human health, taking the first step toward… Continue reading
Dec 07 Fact Sheet: Copenhagen Climate Summit By Talea Miller Representatives from 192 nations are converging on Copenhagen Monday for the opening day of the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference, where the next steps are expected to be hashed out towards an international emissions agreement. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch EPA: Greenhouse Gases Pose Danger to Humans In an interview with Gwen Ifill, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson explains the decision to declare greenhouse gases a danger to human health. Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Diplomats in Copenhagen Seek Pact on Emissions As an international climate summit kicked off in Copenhagen on Monday, the EPA took a step toward regulating greenhouse gases by declaring them a risk to human health. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Dec 04 Obama to Appear on Climate Summit Closing Day President Barack Obama upped the ante on his appearance at the Copenhagen Climate Summit Friday, switching his travel plans to appear on the final day of the summit, Dec. 18, instead of Dec. 9 on his way to pick… Continue reading