We have all disagreed to agree, now what?
The Copenhagen Accord is weak and will not pressure countries to do more on climate change. There were too many competing national interests and not e...
The Copenhagen Accord is weak and will not pressure countries to do more on climate change. There were too many competing national interests and not e...
I am a long-term resident of China, working in an industry -- advertising -- in which productivity is inextricably linked to robust self-expression. ...
The danger in China's off-balance sheet shell game is that a good percentage of the original loans have been made to companies with oodles of political clout but absolutely no chance of every repaying the loan.
Too many observers, in my view, are judging the Copenhagen Accord by the wrong yardsticks.
China has been widely blamed for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks. Is that fair?
The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.
Just when Barack Obama thought his toughest decisions were behind him--his Afghanistan strategy, tackling unemployment, what to say to Tiger Woods i...
I think we owe it to the Copenhagen participants to recognize that, for these two weeks, they made the debate over health care seem reasonable by comparison.
World leaders -- most notably President Obama -- took over these negotiations and used everything in their power to push forward an agreement in Copenhagen.
Let's get real about Copenhagen. Until now, the biggest roadblock to signing the Kyoto agreement, and to making progress at
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After refusing to publicly commit to any numerical target for reducing emissions, China seemingly out of the blue announced it would reduce its carbon intensity by 2012.
President Barack Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place -- between Mr. Brown and the Dalai Lama. Last October, when Barack Obama canceled hi...
Much like how China found a way to modernize in many areas, China's current leadership knows that it must leapfrog from smokestacks to the next generation of clean energy sources.
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In an age of relative American decline, private placement of U.S. Treasury debt with the world's leading Communist power is an embarrassment whose time has come.
Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.
While the climate change issue is much bigger than a competition between any two countries, it does show how much can be accomplished when even one nation commits to action.
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The U.S. and China each need to do one more thing to give one another, and rest of the world, the confidence to move forward in Copenhagen
The entire world will gain enormously from the resulting predictability, fairness and follow-through of climate and development financing that we urgently need.