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Developing Countries
Boycott Climate Talks

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

Dec 14, 2009 9:23 AM CST

Developing Countries Boycott Climate Talks

Refuse to participate unless rich countries cut more

(Newser) - A group of 125 developing countries, including China and India, boycotted the climate change talks in Copenhagen today, accusing developed countries of trying to ditch the Kyoto protocol, and the penalties it imposes on them if they don't meet emissions limits. The Africa-led move created chaos at the talks, which...

Denmark
Releases
1K Protesters

UPDATED

Dec 13, 2009 6:03 AM CST

Denmark Releases 1K Protesters

Thirteen remain in custody; more protests planned today

(Newser) - Danish police today released hundreds of activists who were detained during a mass rally demanding strong action from the UN climate conference. Police said only 13 of the 968 people detained during and after the demonstration in Copenhagen remained in custody today. Of those, three—two Danes and a Frenchman—...

Copenhagen Talks Will
[Doom] [Save] World

time to pick a bracket

Dec 12, 2009 3:15 PM CST

Copenhagen Talks Will [Doom] [Save] World

It's a numbers game now for world leaders

(Newser) - Copenhagen now boils down to a preposterously simple numbers game, writes Michael McCarthy. The draft text released yesterday leaves momentous decisions like how much to limit carbon emissions as choices surrounded by square brackets. Take the long-term target for cutting CO2 emissions, for instance. Should nations cut them by [50]...

Protesters Descend
on Copenhagen

updated

Dec 12, 2009 12:22 PM CST

Protesters Descend on Copenhagen

Police detain about 600 youths when bricks are thrown

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen today to press world leaders for progress on global warming. Estimates ranged from 40,000 (from police) to 100,000 (from organizers). Police say they detained about 600 black-clad youths after bricks were thrown at officers, reports AP . Earlier,...

New Proposals Boost Hopes of Copenhagen Deal

climate summit

Dec 11, 2009 4:00 PM CST

New Proposals Boost Hopes of Copenhagen Deal

Negotiators appear ready to extend, build on Kyoto protocol

(Newser) - New draft proposals at the Copenhagen summit have renewed optimism that negotiators will find consensus on a substantial deal. One plan would renew and extend the Kyoto protocol—this time, presumably, with a US endorsement—which is set to expire in 2012. Another draft proposal, framed as a "Kyoto...

Leaked Text Causes Chaos
in Copenhagen

climate talks

Dec 8, 2009 4:24 PM CST

Leaked Text Causes Chaos in Copenhagen

Developing nations say they're getting an unfair deal

(Newser) - Leaders of developing countries angrily accused rich nations of cutting them out of the negotiations at the Copenhagen climate summit after the leak of a secret draft agreement. The Guardian got hold of the draft, known as the "Danish text," and says it would allow rich nations to...

UN: '00s Warmest Decade Ever

Dec 8, 2009 8:26 AM CST

UN: '00s Warmest Decade Ever

Weather agency says 2009 among the five warmest years

(Newser) - This decade is very likely to be the warmest ever recorded, with 2009 ranking among the top-five warmest years, the UN’s meteorological agency told the Copenhagen climate conference today. Since records began in 1850, the warmest years have been 2005, 1998, 2007 and 2006. The current year is set...

Copenhagen Hookers
Offer Delegates Free Sex

CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT

Dec 7, 2009 7:52 AM CST

Copenhagen Hookers Offer Delegates Free Sex

Delegates at Copenhagen conference get unexpected bonus

(Newser) - Delegates at the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit won’t have to just hang out in the hotel bar between sessions: They can have free prostitute sex. In retaliation against the mayor’s anti-prostitution campaign (she sent a postcard asking summit guests to “Be sustainable: Don’t buy sex”),...

Climate of Skepticism Swells in Copenhagen

Dec 7, 2009 6:37 AM CST

Climate of Skepticism Swells in Copenhagen

Leaders all but abandon hopes for binding treaty this year

(Newser) - Global warming talks kick off today in Copenhagen, but leaders have already largely given up hope of a binding international treaty amid a climate of swirling skepticism toward the issue. The “climategate” emails do little to debunk two decades of climate science, scientists and policymakers tell the New York ...

56 Newspapers Call for
Climate Change Action

Dec 7, 2009 1:20 AM CST

56 Newspapers Call for Climate Change Action

An appeal to 'the better angels of our nature'

(Newser) - On the eve of the Copenhagen climate change summit, 56 newspapers from around the globe have published a joint editorial urging that world governments act to curb climate change. Aware that the summit cannot produce a full, binding treaty, the papers call for politicians to agree on a framework—with...

Denmark Goes All-In
on Electric Cars

Dec 2, 2009 9:52 AM CST

Denmark Goes All-In on Electric Cars

Deal with Better Place aims to make it a 'laboratory country'

(Newser) - Denmark is so gung-ho about electric cars that it’s giving its people a $40,000 tax credit to buy one, and planning to line the streets with charging and battery-swap stations. They’re even keeping free parking open for them in downtown Copenhagen. Yet consumers, and some industry experts,...

China Pledges to Cut
Greenhouse Gases

hope for copenhagen

Nov 26, 2009 12:25 PM CST

China Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Beijing will peg its reductions to GDP

(Newser) - China said today that it plans to ramp up efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and that Premier Wen Jiabao will attend next month's climate conference in Copenhagen. The announcement comes a day after President Obama said he, too, would attend to lay out US reductions. The developments raise...

Obama Headed
to Copenhagen
for Climate Talks

updated

Nov 25, 2009 10:28 AM CST

Obama Headed to Copenhagen for Climate Talks

He'll propose 17% cut in US emissions of greenhouse gases

(Newser) - Barack Obama will head to Copenhagen on Dec. 9—the day before his Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo—to advocate for a comprehensive global climate accord. The White House had vacillated on whether Obama should go, since no one expects a legally binding treaty, insiders tell Politico . But Obama decided...

Leaders Punt on
Copenhagen Deal

BACKSTAGE AT ASEAN

Nov 15, 2009 12:04 PM CST

Leaders Punt on Copenhagen Deal

Acknowledge gaps too far to bridge before climate change summit

(Newser) - Just 22 days ahead of Copenhagen, President Obama and other leaders have declared that a meaningful and binding international deal is unlikely to come out of the climate change conference. The move, as the New York Times reports, sets the bar much lower and effectively delays the most treacherous issues...

Break Stuff to Save the Planet: Gore

Nov 6, 2009 4:15 PM CST

Break Stuff to Save the Planet: Gore

Former VP endorses civil disobedience against climate change

(Newser) - Al Gore says nonviolent disruption of polluters and airports is justified considering the grave threat posed by climate change. "Civil disobedience has an honorable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a...

Obama Lashed
McChrystal in
Tense Faceoff

Oct 5, 2009 4:13 AM CDT

Obama Lashed McChrystal in Tense Faceoff

Prez reads commander riot act over his 'Chaos-istan' dig

(Newser) - President Obama's talk last week aboard Air Force One with Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal wasn't merely a meeting, as was widely reported in the press, but a dressing down over the general's "shocking" recent comments calling for more troops, says the Telegraph. McChrystal was called on the carpet...

Olympics Defeat: How
Much Does It Hurt Obama?

Oct 3, 2009 8:44 AM CDT

Olympics Defeat: How Much Does It Hurt Obama?

(Newser) - It's a big disappointment for Chicago, but how big a hit was yesterday's Olympic Committee put-down of the US's 2016 bid for the president, who stuck his neck out to go to bat for it? Of course Rush Limbaugh said it was huge, the "worst day" of Obama's presidency,...

Obamas: Pick Chicago,
'Most American' City

2016 OLYMPICS

Oct 2, 2009 5:11 AM CDT

Obamas: Pick Chicago, 'Most American' City

President, first lady stump for their hometown ahead of Olympic vote

(Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama made an impassioned call today to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, which the president called the "most American of American cities." In his pitch to the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen, the president told of how he became "a proud Chicagoan" after...

In Blog Post,
White House
Blasts Fox News

Oct 1, 2009 2:26 PM CDT

In Blog Post, White House Blasts Fox News

Prez promised to call out detractors, and that he did over Olympics claims

(Newser) - In an unprecedented move, the White House has excoriated one of its most vocal opponents in a blog post ripping Fox News. The post singles out Glenn Beck, saying his "program has shown that nothing is worthy of respect if it can be used as part of a partisan...

Michelle, Oprah Hit Copenhagen

OLYMPICS SLIDESHOW

Sep 30, 2009 3:05 PM CDT

Michelle, Oprah Hit Copenhagen

(Newser) - Copenhagen's star power got a big boost today with the arrival of Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, in town to push Chicago's bid for the Games. Oprah was greeted with "bad weather for hair" and a throng of fans crying "Oprah! Oprah!" as she walked the streets,...