This is judgment day, er, year for the original 189 nations that ratified the protocol (or at least the 37 industrialized countries that are required to do anything under it): Will global-warming e...
¡SÃ, another climate conference! The significance (and agenda) of COP16 in Mexico City will largely be determined by what comes out of Copenhagen in December 2009. And how many margaritas negoti...
At COP14 in Poznan, Poland, the Parties continue to Conference, but not much else happens. One notable development: discussion of a new program that would have developing nations seeing REDD: Red...
At COP13 in Bali, Indonesia, the talks go into overtime as the U.S. tries to squirm out of specific emissions targets and ultimately gets booed. A delegate from Papua New Guinea lays a verbal smac...
In yet another effort by IPCC scientists to tell the world that climate change is (still) real, they release their Fourth Assessment Report. The largest and most tedious, er, detailed compilation...
The Montreal climate conference, or COP11, begets the Montreal Action Plan, which sets forth a fuzzy vision for extending the life of Kyoto beyond its 2012 expiration date and slashing greenhouse-g...
Ninety days after Russia signals its commitment, the Kyoto Protocol takes effect for the 128 nations that ratified it. Legally binding emission targets, emissions trading, and the Clean Developme...
In their Third Assessment Report, those sharp IPCC scientists -- you won't find them lying down on the job! -- release increasingly clear statements that the climate is changing, and lately most...
The (in)famous Kyoto Protocol is drawn up and signed at COP3, thanks in part to U.S. Vice President Al Gore's work hammering out a final deal. Unlike the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol lays down the...
The ever-on-top-of-it IPCC churns out its Second Assessment Report on the state of the climate. What'd they find this time? The climate has changed, is changing, and will (likely) continue to cha...
Ich bin climate negotiator! In Berlin, Germany, climate treaty negotiations get rolling under the UNFCCC, with the aim of forging a legally binding and enforceable climate deal. Participating coun...
The IPCC publishes its First Assessment Report, saying, yep, climate change is happening, and humans are making it worse by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. More than half of the bla...
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