How Obama’s China trip killed CopenhagenDespite all the fanfare around Obama’s trip to China, he failed to make any headway with the country in securing support for serious emissions targets, says Steve Clemons. As a result, Copenhagen is now dead.
Climate treaty
Rumors of Copenhagen’s death have been greatly exaggerated
The Copenhagen climate summit hasn’t even started, yet the mainstream media are already writing its obituary. But the pundits are wrong, says David Turnbull: a climate treaty can still be reached at the conference.
A long way from “Yes We Can”
Yes We Can’t — that’s the new message on climate change from Barack Obama and other world leaders, who have now made a “realistic assessment” on Copenhagen: a climate treaty is “unrealistic”.
World leaders give up on Copenhagen
The Copenhagen climate conference doesn’t start for another 22 days, but world leaders at the APEC summit have already agreed that reaching a legally binding deal on climate change at the conference will be impossible.
Hamilton: Rudd at Bali and Beyond
When Kevin Rudd announces to the plenary session of the UN climate change conference in Bali in two weeks’ time that Australia will ratify the Kyoto Protocol he will receive an ovation like no other in his life, writes Clive Hamilton.
