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...session, the delegates hadn't come much closer to achieving the next meaningful step in the battle against climate change: negotiating a more complete successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. Though political awareness of the need to grapple with climate change was clearly at an all-time high - scores of national leaders don't suddenly convene at the U.N. without a decent reason - the global political will to actually do something still seems lacking. It's now 20 years since the issue of climate change was first raised in the U.N.'s General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.N.'s Hot Air on Climate Change | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...India - to Washington to discuss long-term goals on climate action. Both U.N. and Administration officials insist the two summits would be complementary, not competitive, but since the White House continues to insist on mostly voluntary action to cut carbon emissions, and the U.N. process is based on Kyoto-style mandatory cuts, contradiction seems inevitable. "People are concerned because [the White House] does have a history of going its own way," Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. special envoy on climate change, told TIME. "But the U.N. process is absolutely the way we have to go. Climate change affects every nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.N.'s Hot Air on Climate Change | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

Kalluk and his people will just have to adjust, but the polar bears may not be able to. A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) predicts that shrinking sea ice will mean a two-thirds reduction in their population by midcentury. Not even strict adherence to the Kyoto accord on limiting greenhouse gases would stop an Arctic meltdown, which means the Arctic, like nowhere else on Earth, is a place where efforts to mitigate global warming have yielded to full-bore adaptation to its impact. That process is freighted with irony. With gas and oil prices near historic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...well. Howard's sudden conversion on climate change is at least partially driven by the fact that global warming has emerged as a top concern among voters in Australia, which has suffered through years of extreme drought. The opposition Labor Party, which has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, is leading in most opinion polls, and an election will occur before the end of the year. "Environmental issues have moved to the center of mainstream politics here," says Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Improve on Kyoto? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

...international carbon market to fund tree preservation. "Having the world's third-largest emitter leading a group of nations on climate change doesn't break the U.S.-China logjam, but it does put pressure on it," says Petsonk. With the U.N. set to begin talking about a successor to Kyoto at climate change talks in Bali at the end of the year, every bit of pressure counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Improve on Kyoto? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

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