Topic: Kyoto Protocol
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The Monitor's View: Why latest failure of global warming talks may be a success
The weak outcome of the climate change talks in Doha only add to the momentum toward solutions at the local level, where values on the common good are more easily shared.
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Nations extend weaker Kyoto Protocol
UN climate conference approves extending Kyoto global-warming agreement through 2020. But new Kyoto phase will cover only 15 percent of greenhouse gases.
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Robert Reich
America's other cliffs: poverty, healthcare and the environmentAmerica does face a cliff – not a fiscal cliff, but a set of precipices obscured by Republicans' obsession over government’s size and spending, Reich writes.
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Climate change talks: What are the goals in Qatar? (+video)
UN talks for a new pact to curb greenhouse emissions and slow climate change are underway in Qatar. Negotiators hope to extend the Kyoto Protocol. The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a U.N. report released last week
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World Bank: Tackle warming or poverty remains
Climate change will hit all nations, but especially the poor ones, says new World Bank report. Warming could flood Vietnam and Bangladesh, dry out other areas, causing water scarcity.
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Energy Voices
Obama's climate legacy: What will he accomplish in his second term?Could President Obama use a second term to burnish his legacy on the climate not only to his country, but also to the planet?
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Rio Summit: Environmentalists slam agreements as too weak
Rio Summit: Expectations were low, and environmentalists say that texts diplomats agreed upon fail to set sustainable development goals.
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Opinion: Rio+20 earth summit should look to reduce black carbon through carbon trading
Delegates at the Rio+20 earth summit must look beyond CO2 to black carbon. Reducing black carbon (soot) is easier than reducing other kinds of greenhouse gas emissions. And a market-based international system to reduce carbon emissions is already in place.
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Rio +20 Summit kicks off amid global pessimism (+video)
Expectations are low at the UN conference that seeks to preserve Earth's ecosystems amid a growing population.
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Ahead of Rio +20 summit, UN sounds environmental alarm (+video)
A UN report released ahead of an environmental summit in Brazil warns that overpopulation, urbanization, and consumption pose grave threats to the Earth's biosphere.
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Rich-poor divide bogs down UN climate talks
Developing nations say the industrialized world - responsible for most of the emissions historically - should bear the brunt of the emissions cuts while developed nations want to make sure that fast-growing economies like China and India don't get off too easy.
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Private Empire
Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll takes a close look at secretive behemoth that is Exxon Mobil.
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Carbon trading: Why 'good' companies embrace 'bad' credits
When it comes to Europe's carbon-trading system, top companies like Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, and BP prefer to save a little money than hone their 'green' reputation.
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Famine early warning system gives Africa a chance to prepare
US government system, using ground sensors and satellite imagery, helped to predict this year's drought in Horn of Africa, allowing aid groups and governments to prepare relief.
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While a deal sets up new climate talks, scientists help Africans adapt now
Delegates in Durban, South Africa struck a deal to seek a new climate change treaty. Meanwhile, less-contentious projects like a famine early warning system help now.
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Activists showing impatience at Durban climate talks
Climate activists in Durban are expressing their displeasure at negotiators from wealthy countries, whom they see as dragging their feet on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Is the US dragging its feet on a climate deal?
Some countries and advocacy groups are saying that the United States is seeking to delay the start of a legally binding climate change deal until after 2020, a charge that the US climate envoy denies.
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Comprehensive climate deal 'beyond our reach': UN chief
Political differences, the worldwide financial crisis and a divergence of priorities among rich and poor countries are barriers to an agreement on a future negotiating path accordig to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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Global News Blog
Good Reads: China faces unrest as economy slowsThe rest of the world was hoping China's booming economy would pull everyone else out of economic slowdown, but now even China appears to be slowing down.
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Are banks to blame for climate change?
A report released by non-governmental groups at the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, said that major global banks bear responsibility for global warming by funding utilities and mining companies to build coal-fired power plants
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Climate change: 2011 temperatures the hottest ever during La Nina
Climate change studies show rising global temperatures – the 10th highest ever – and shrinking ice caps. This year saw the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice ever recorded, due to global warming, say scientists.
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Durban climate change talks: Experts see warmer world as inevitable
Many of the nations gathered in Durban, South Africa, this week have proposed voluntary cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. But even if all of those cuts were successful, they would still result in catastrophic climate change.
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The climate news is bad, but prospects for climate talks may be worse
UN-sponsored climate talks opened Monday in South Africa amid grim news on global warming and deeply divisive questions over how, or whether, to expand or extend the Kyoto Protocol.
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China: Economic woes no excuse for climate change inaction
Ahead of major climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, China's top climate official said that economic turmoil in the West should not get in the way of fighting global warming.
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The Monitor's View: Keep the climate challenge in focus
An international meeting later this month won’t take big steps, but it can hold everyone’s feet to the fire.
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