Fight Climate Change, Not Wars
Naomi Klein:Here in Copenhagen, Obama's Nobel--which was awarded in part because of his re-engagement with the climate change negotiations--carries a special set of ironies.
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What is the EU's Position on a Legally-Binding Agreement?
Robert S. Eshelman:Amidst a scandal over a leaked Danish negotiating text, pressure is growing on E.
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What You Need to Know About "Climategate"
Robert S. Eshelman:A round-up of articles and blogs about the hacked emails and the climate change deniers who love them.
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Copenhagen: Where Africa Took On Obama
Naomi Klein
As details of a woefully weak climate deal emerges, Africa's love affair with Obama is cooling fast.
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Averting a Flop-in-'Hagen
Robert S. Eshelman : Global Warming & Climate Change
As Copenhagen kicks off, pressing questions about emissions cuts and financing for poor countries to deal with climate change are already on the table.
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Copenhagen: History's Judgment at Stake
: Global Warming & Climate Change
Today, fifty-six newspapers from around the world took the unusual step of publishing the very same thing--an editorial below, which calls for a "fair and effective deal" from the Copenhagen summit on climate change.
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A Historic Breakthrough?
Mark Hertsgaard
How Obama could save or scuttle a deal in Copenhagen, and why he needs civil society to push him.
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An Inconvenient Solution
Bill McKibben : Global Warming & Climate Change
In Our Choice, Al Gore explains what must be done. But is there the political will to do it?
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The UK's Climate Rebels
Maria Margaronis : Great Britain
Some of the best activism is happening in Britain--but in policy terms, payoff has been slight.
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The Physics of Copenhagen
Bill McKibben : Global Warming & Climate Change
Why all the normal political calculations are likely to prove disastrous in Copenhagen.
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Slide Show: Our Evolving Planet
Images that capture the challenges facing the environment and the reforms that may help save it.
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Factoring People Into Climate Change
Barbara Crossette : Reproductive Rights
More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.
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Obama Has Authority to Sign Climate Deal
Robert S. Eshelman
EPA's announcement yesterday demonstrates that Obama can regulate emissions. So why won't he pledge greater reductions at COP15?
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Zombie Nuke Plants
Christian Parenti : Radioactive Waste/Contamination
Our crumbling atomic power stations and the government agency that loves them.
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US: Cash for Exxon? Yes. Cash for Climate Change? No.
Robert S. Eshelman
Obama Administration is poised to provide an Exxon-led consortium with a $3 billion loan while remain uncommitted to financing climate adaptation.
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Searching for CCS
Holly Wren Spaulding : Global Warming & Climate Change
Will carbon capture and sequestration help us avoid runaway climate change?
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Climate Fog
Christopher Hayes : Global Warming & Climate Change
Congress is finally ready to address climate change--but the American public seems headed in the opposite direction.
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Klimaforum09 Opens in Copenhagen
Robert S. Eshelman
As the first day of COP15 winds to a close, alternative summit provides a place for movement building.
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Climate Activists Hit the Streets
Nathaniel Herz : Global Warming & Climate Change
Turnout for 350.org's International Climate Day of Action was high in New York City--and in some of the developing nations most vulnerable to effects of global warming.
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Copenhagen: Obama Better Go Back
Naomi Klein : Global Warming & Climate Change
If Obama can go to Copenhagen to support Chicago's Olympic bid, he can go back for the UN climate change summit.
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COP15: What's at Stake?
Robert S. Eshelman : Global Warming & Climate Change
The most important international summit in history? Given what latest scientific reports tell us about the quickening pace of global warming, the sense of urgency driving attention to the Copenhagen summit is warranted.
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Where's the Clean Energy?
Robert S. Eshelman : Clean Energy Technology
Promising local initiatives are pointing the way forward for national policy.
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Tony Kushner on Climate Change
VideoNation : Global Warming & Climate Change
Kushner speculates on why it's so hard as an artist to write meaningfully about climate change--and why policy change has come so slowly.
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Climate Roulette
Mark Hertsgaard : Global Warming & Climate Change
A frightening new climate change study says the United States must quit carbon within ten years.
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Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Revolution
Mark Hertsgaard : Food & Nutrition
The First Lady hopes to entice Americans away from their junk food past to a healthier, more delicious future.
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Gore to 'Get Crazy' on Climate Change
Saturday Night Live : Humor
Because no one is responding to his more rational pleas, Al Gore has some new, creative ideas that might finally elicit a response.
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Beyond Copenhagen
The Editors : Global Warming & Climate Change
Many obstacles stand in the path of a successful global agreement. But Obama can still take the lead on fighting climate change.
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The Global South Bloc
Mark Hertsgaard : Global Warming & Climate Change
Poor countries can make big gains in climate talks if they stick together, argues Saleemul Huq.
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