Thursday in Canberra, Julia Gillard emerged from a meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party ('the caucus') as the new leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She had, with the assistance, direction and support of ALP factional leaders, deposed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a man who had swept to power...

The only internationally legally binding agreement on carbon emission reductions is being abandoned by its former champion - the European Union.

International negotiations are truly crazy places. In between the ten page daily agenda which ranges from "Item 3 - a shared vision for long-term cooperative action" to "Conference and...

Most articles on climate change include graphs. These show that science and economics are at play (you can't have either of those things without graphs) and that things change over time. I thought of creating a graph for this post on Obama's international climate policy -- showing Hope vs. Change...