The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts contrasts the momentum of Chinese and American emissions trading schemes, and suggests that the United States’ lack of leadership could be a strategic error: China is both desperate and...
In the year since the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, both China and the U.S. have softened their positions and are now more likely to reach agreement at the ongoing Cancun talks. From the New York Times: The verification...
Tianjin is hosting a new round of talks aimed at jump-starting the negotiations that stalled after the Copenhagen climate change conference last year. From AFP: The six days of talks in the northern port city of Tianjin, due to...
Der Spiegel has obtained audio recordings of the meetings of world leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit which produced the final agreement: He Yafei was playing for time and constantly requesting interruptions,...
Three months after the conference, both India and China have agreed to formally sign onto the climate change agreement reached at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. From the New York Times: The two countries, among the...
Sam Sedaei is an international civil resistance trainer, producer and international affairs contributor. He wrote this piece on the Huffington Post: … ever since President Obama’s inauguration, China has been...
Jonathan Watts, Damian Carrington and Suzanne Goldenberg report in the Guardian: Rich nations furthered their “conspiracy to divide the developing world” at December’s UN climate summit in Copenhagen, while...
With China receiving much blame for the failure to produce a binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate change conference, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain John Prescott has defended China’s role in the...
AP reports: China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, on Sunday lauded the outcome of the U.N. climate conference, which produced a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions...
The New York Times reports on President Obama’s speech at the Copenhagen climate change conference and efforts to reach consensus before the meetings end: His remarks appeared to be a pointed reference to China’s...
With the Copenhagen climate change conference wrapping up in a couple of days, there may yet be progress on a deal between the U.S. and China, which has been one of the major stumbling blocks so far. From Reuters: The Dec 7-18...
Bloomberg profiles Xie Zhenhua, former head of China’s state environmental protection agency and now the country’s chief negotiator in Copenhagen: Xie, who resigned after an explosion at a PetroChina Co. plant...
Thanks to David Kelly, Professor of China Studies, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, for translating the following opinion piece by political commentator Liang Jing: Global climate change, humanity’s...
The New York Times reports on the impasse between the U.S. and China over monitoring and compliance of any any treaty: Chinese negotiators have said little during formal negotiation sessions here, where they have been working in...
Chinese blogger Li Puman comments on the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, and questions if there will be any consensus after the talks. Translated by Rose Scobie at China Elections & Governance: Truthfully speaking, do...
The war of words between Chinese and U.S. negotiators at the Copenhagen climate change conference continues. From the Christian Science Monitor: Perhaps the most visible disagreement so far is the one between the US, the...
The Green Leap Forward blog looks at the day’s events at the Copenhagen climate change conference, with negotiations continuing over an alternative to the leaked “Danish text”: A significant shift and softening...
The Copenhagen climate change conference is being hampered by a war of words between China and the U.S., AP reports: U.S. chief negotiator Todd Stern urged China to “stand behind” its promise to slow the growth of...
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