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.
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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.
The coal industry wants your cash to save them
The coal industry realises that without massive public funding, carbon capture is dead. Without it, the coal industry and power companies locked into coal-fired power stations will, at best, be on life support, writes Bob Burton.
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”.
Grattan: Rudd still has a deal to make at home
The world’s leaders may have given up on a climate change treaty at Copenhagen, but brokering a climate deal at home will still give Kevin Rudd considerable clout at the conference, says Michelle Grattan
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.
Making the most of failure in Copenhagen
Next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen is doomed to failure, says Philip Stephens. But if scientists and world leaders are going to go anyway, there are a few more realistic goals they achieve to at least make it a successful failure.
“Copenhagen is our date with destiny”
At the opening of the Climate Vulnerable Forum yesterday, President Nasheed of the Maldives delivered an incredible speech, imploring world leaders to commit to real carbon targets at Copenhagen: “We will not sign a global suicide pact.”
Gorbachev: The battle over climate change is the new Cold War
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has a message for the leaders of today: climate change is your Wall.
Crikey’s Copenhagen Crib Notes – download them now!
Copenhagen is about to become the centre of the world because it’s where the world will meet to decide the collective path forward on climate change. Read some of the best Crikey writing on the issue here.
The real costs of Rudd’s CPRS are just starting to surface
The Government’s climate change policy is incoherent and becoming ever more expensive, writes Sinclair Davidson. No amount of name-calling is going to change the fact that this policy is a lemon and needs to be radically reconsidered.
Kohler: How the collapsing US$ will damage Copenhagen
For Australia, an international emissions trading scheme in Copenhagen may prove an economic disaster, thanks to a dropping US dollar a and rising Aussie dollar. It’s happening around the world and it’s making a Copenhagen deal unlikely.
Copenhagen reality check #1: 25% by 2020 isn’t in the ball park
You can bet your house that Copenhagen will not conclude with a 25% mandatory target for all the developed economies. But is that even what we need to do, or is the whole of the Copenhagen process wrapped in an enormous delusion? asks David Spratt.
Copenhagen is coming, lower your expectations
With the Copenhagen climate change conference just five weeks away and national leaders and scientists already disagreeing, it looks like a global plan for climate change and emissions targets is unlikely, writes David Spratt.
Political snippets: Good news from China, bad news from Copenhagen
Some good news from China on the economy, but some bad news from Copenhagen on the prospect of positive outcomes from the Copenhagen climate change talks. And au revior to the Breakfast Media Wrap.
Failure or foundations for Copenhagen
We are currently not on track to sign a ratifiable treaty in Copenhagen but that’s not to say we shouldn’t expect key outcomes that will set us on the path to achieve this global treaty in 2010, writes Erwin Jackson.
Crikey Says: Calm down, no rush on CPRS
Apparently the CPRS isn’t that urgent. Otherwise, why would debate keep getting delayed by both the Coalition and the government?
Don’t get your hopes up for Copenhagen
The likelihood that climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December will produce a comprehensive treaty on global warming are now looking pretty slim, with the US, like Australia, still squabbling domestically over the issue.
Davidson: Remember when this debate was actually about climate change?
The Federal Government and Opposition have both polluted the emissions trading debate with infighting and political power plays, says Kenneth Davidson. Neither party is offering a clear or realistic vision to combat global warming.
Crikey Clarifier: Copenhagen. What’s it all about?
Apparently something pretty major is happening in Copenhagen in December. Some big climate change world meeting. Crikey intern Melanie Mahony clarifies what it’s all about.
Why climate talks fail
World leaders are great at getting together to talk about the importance of climate change — they’re less skilled at actually making any concrete commitments or actions on the issue. Christopher Lingle explains why the world just can’t get its s**t together.
Australia, you have 3 days to get your act together on climate change
Bangkok’s climate talks have shown that the issue of climate aid is one of the main hurdles for producing a better global deal on climate change, — and Australia is lagging behind the pack, writes Will McGoldrick.
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen! Copenhagen for me!
Australia is fronting up to Copenhagen insouciantly talking about schedules and the importance of climate aid, without offering a single dollar, and boasting of our willingness to have a unilateral 5% — 5%! — cut in emissions by 2020.
The CPRS is pointless. It’s Copenhagen that counts
Whether the CPRS gets up or not will make no difference to global temperatures, writes Dr Richard Denniss. Why Malcolm Turnbull would stake his leadership on something so meaningless defies logic.
