With less than 50 days for the climate summit set in Copenhagen at the beginning of December, there is not much optimism for the results. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said too many people have not yet grasp the scale and urgency of the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

For the first time the White House has admitted that it does not expect to see a climate bill this year. This has raised doubts about how strongly the Obama administration will press the Senate for a climate bill when they are in the middle of the struggle over health care. And yet Obama received already severe criticism last month when he failed to urge the Senate to act during his speech to the United Nations summit on climate change. Read the rest of this entry »

The United Nations conference about combating climate changes has just finished. Now 70 days before the Copenhagen global summit about the same topic there is little to cheer. The world leaders arrived and talked, promises and admonitions were made but nothing concrete. Read the rest of this entry »

Just a short while ago, with some 100 heads of state gathered at the United Nations, a conference on combating climate change was opened by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general. In his remarks he called for unity to address the problem and appealed to world leaders to set aside their national interests and think about the future of the earth. Read the rest of this entry »