The 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. At this CoP, agreements were to be finalised in two sets of parallel negotiations.

New Scientist asked leading scientists, politicians and business people to tell us if the imminent climate change talks can deliver.

It has been revealed that 65 heads of states and governments will be attending the most important environmental summit held in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The organizers of the climate summit announced this week that leaders of most of the world

A misplaced sense of global power is undermining India

The Bangkok and Barcelona negotiations demonstrated that the international climate negotiations have yet to reach the level of maturity required for states to adopt a legally binding

Given the emissions forecasts of both the industrialized and developing economies, and the disproportionate vulnerability of the world

The European Union proposed on Friday that rich countries should give developing nations up to

European Union leaders will lock horns on Thursday over how to pay for a global climate change agreement at a two-day summit that is expected to remove the last important obstacle to the bloc

Total, the French oil group, has warned politicians that they risk accelerating an oil supply crunch if they enact environmental policies that deter investment in oil and gas before enough viable alternatives are available.

The aviation and shipping sectors would be included in global carbon-cutting measures for the first time under a European Union proposal to be tabled at December

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