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COP 15: Copenhagen climate change conference 2009

January 2019

  • Gas-fired power station in Teesside

    UK power stations' electricity output lowest since 1994

    Energy efficiency and changing economy cut generation by 1% in 2018 as renewables supplied 33% of electricity

June 2016

  • Delegates hail the adoption the adoption of a historic global warming pact at the COP21 climate conference

    If we’re to win the climate struggle, we must remain in Europe

    Caroline Lucas and John Ashton
    Concerted EU diplomacy helped secure a landmark agreement at the Paris climate change summit. We should not leave the field just as the battle is turning

January 2016

  • Participants contribute coins into a piggy bank during the World Climate Change Conference 2015

    We print money to bail out banks. Why can’t we do it to solve climate change?

    Matthias Kroll
    We need an estimated $1tn per year to stay below a global temperature rise of 2C. Creating new money might be the only way to meet this financial challenge

December 2015

  • Ban Ki-Moon, Laurent Fabius and Christiana Figueres at COP 21

    10 tests to find out if Paris’s climate change deal is a success

    Adil Najam
  • Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Rudd: 'Jury is out' on Malcolm Turnbull at Paris climate talks

November 2015

  • ‘The aspirations at Paris are even lower than before Copenhagen, the proposals less bold.’

    I’ve seen 21 years of COP failures. Paris needs to deliver action, not talk

    Adil Najam
    Climate change is having a profound impact on my country, Pakistan, but talk of binding agreements at COP 21 is dismissed as ‘unrealistic’
  • A climate change protester in Copenhagen during the controversial summit in 2009.

    The long read
    Paris climate summit: the climate circus comes to town

    The long read: The soap opera of global climate talks has been playing for 20 years. As it comes to Paris on Monday, Suzanne Goldenberg reviews the tears, the bloodshed and the unspeakable catering
    • Yes, the Paris climate change conference can save the planet

      Ed Miliband
    • Paris climate talks: ‘Six years on, climate change is killing fish, flooding our fields’

    • Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks

October 2015

  • An ice floe in front of the Solheimajokull glacier in Iceland, where the ice has retreated by more than 1km since annual measurements began in 1931. Current international commitments on greenhouse gas emissions expire in 2020.

    Paris climate summit: 'sprint needed' to secure emissions deal in December

    Observers say draft text shows countries close to consensus after Bonn talks to hammer out final details of global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions

August 2015

  • Greenpeace campaigners dressed in orangutan costumes

    Leadership
    The protest movement is failing: it's fighting the same old battles with the same poor results

    Deborah Doane
    Activists’ tendency to turn every issue into a fight against government or big business won’t create long term change

June 2015

  • Smoke billows from a Chinese chemical factory in Hefei. ‘Some developing countries will present commitments [on curbing emissions] that are partly conditional, ie depending on financial support,’ said Fabius.

    West must pay up to secure deal at Paris climate change summit, warns Fabius

    French minister says COP21 climate conference’s success in curbing emissions requires rich nations to fulfil earlier funding pledges to finance poor countries

December 2014

  • Smoke from a brush fire hovers above a deforested section of the Amazon basin on November 21, 2014 in Maranhao state, Brazil. Fires are often set by ranchers to clear shrubs and forest for grazing land in the Amazon basin. The non-governmental group Imazon recently warned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon skyrocketed 450 percent in October of this year compared with the same month last year. The United Nations climate change conference begins December 1 in neighboring Peru.

    Brazil should take lead on climate, not just broker talks

    Carlos Rittl
    Carlos Rittl: Country’s efforts to keep negotiations moving towards a global agreement should be backed by robust action on cutting emissions and embracing renewables

November 2014

  • UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

    UN to investigate claims that UK spies infiltrated climate talks

    Claims that GCHQ snooped on two climate summits will be investigated, says UN secretary general

September 2014

  • Mary Robinson, Ban Ki-moon's special envoy on climate change: 'This is a different environment to Copenhagen'

    New climate deal push will not repeat Copenhagen mistakes – UN envoy

    Ahead of Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit in New York, Mary Robinson plays down no-show by Chinese and Indian leaders

January 2014

  • US Climate Envoy Todd Stern (R) and Hillary Clinton at COP15 in Copenhagen

    Snowden revelations of NSA spying on Copenhagen climate talks spark anger

    Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show NSA kept US negotiators abreast of their rivals' positions at 2009 summit

November 2013

  • Ban Ki-moon and Donald Tusk, Warsaw, 20/11/13

    Hosts Poland accused of endangering world climate talks timetable

  • Greg Hunt

    Climate change talks: no minister to represent Australia

September 2013

  • A drop of water falls from a melting piece of ice

    IPCC climate report: last-minute Stockholm talks make slow progress

    Climate scientists wrangle over crucial projections on likely effects of global warming just hours before report's deadline
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