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...More than 2,700 delegates from 180 countries met for the talks, which are intended to set the stage for the main event: the U.N. summit in Copenhagen in December, where nations are expected to hammer out a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol. "If this were a marathon, I think I'd say the runners were gathering their stamina for the final sprint," De Boer told reporters on the closing day. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...back and everyone is tired of spending the last eight years in the dungeon," says Jake Schmidt, the international-climate-policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "But they need to start bringing real proposals to the table and show what they're willing to do in Copenhagen...
...research is clarifying the ice-cap question - and the results are sobering. Scientists at the Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen this week presented a study estimating that sea levels could rise globally by 1 m or more by the end of the century, with large regional differences around the world. At the lower end of the estimate, scientists say it's unlikely that seas will rise less than 50 cm even if we can get a grip on carbon emissions. The revised predictions are due to better data on melting in Greenland and Antarctica and from glaciers around the world...
...Burmese video journalists who were there as eyewitnesses. We will shortly upload a version of the film on our website burmavj.com, where all reconstructions are clearly marked for the benefit of anyone who might take an interest in the matter. Lise Lense-M?ller, Executive Producer, Magic Hour Films, Copenhagen...
...Still, both countries recognize that they have much to gain from assuming a leadership role on climate change. This December, 190 countries will convene in Copenhagen for the third and final round of meetings to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the existing global framework on climate change. Until recently, many in the international community were downbeat about the prospects of effective legislation to come out of Copenhagen. Yet clean energy figured prominently in Obama’s stimulus package, renewing hope among many that American initiative on global warming might galvanize the world’s other largest...