Copenhagen COP15

EU-China Civil Society Forum: Climate Change Conference

May 2010

This conference on climate change brings together civil society from China and the EU to develop common goals and approaches to helping a shift to low carbon economies.

Energy and Climate Change: C+

January 2010
Daphne Wysham

In his first few months in office, Obama did take some significant actions to address climate change, but failed to follow through.

China: The Prince of Denmark

January 2010
Walden Bello

Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

Fouling up the air

January 2010
Praful Bidwai

India has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further.

After our Copenhagen self-goal

January 2010
Praful Bidwai

The Copenhagen Accord represents an ignominious retreat from the urgent and universal imperative of combating climate change through cooperative global action. It needs to be replaced with an ambitious, legally binding agreement.

Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen

January 2010
Nick Buxton

Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal -  the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.

On the Copenhagen UN climate summit or why you need more than butter to bake a cake

January 2010
Beatriz Martínez

So it seems that for once everyone agrees on something: the UN climate summit in Copenhagen was a spectacular failure. That is quite an achievement in itself, since consensus seems a rarity in these times.

Copenhagen cop out

December 2009
Praful Bidwai

It is apparent to everyone that the Copenhagen Accord is a travesty of what the world needs to avert climate change.

Climate after Copenhagen

December 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

The reason for the failure in Copenhagen is clear - rather than discuss coordinated efforts, countries lobbied for their particular interests. Everything now depends on individual states and their respective blocs.

How to cure the post-Copenhagen hangover

December 2009
Patrick Bond

Copenhagen unveiled that the leading southern countries are willing accomplices in climate crime to the rich nations, while the hope remains with the rising power of the climate justice movements.