For now, Qatar, like many Arab countries, reclaims water from the saline seas. This process requires energy, and a lot of it. They can do this because their vast petroleum reserves provide the needed energy to desalinate the water -- for now. What about the future?

The negotiating teams are now tasked under the Durban Platform with identifying a new comprehensive policy architecture. The negotiators are therefore hungry for new ideas, in particular for outside-the-box thinking.

Whether or not the submissions by China and India are part of a diplomatic dance or represent a real step backward from their positions in Durban, the fact remains that the Durban Platform, by replacing the Berlin Mandate, has opened an important window.

Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...

The international community may have begun to recognize that incremental steps in the right direction are better than acrimonious debates over unachievable targets

It's crunch time. There are two days left for government leaders and their representatives to come to an agreement. Can they make progress? Can they find solutions?

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The most recent round of United Nations-led climate change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and alt...

What kind of person would you need to become, what kind of community would you need to be a part of, and what kind of process would it take to be able to experience a twenty-first century of increasing unpredictability and loss?

The Copenhagen Accord's discord continues. Studies are surfacing that even if all the nations meet their pledges, the effect on global emissions will be far too small to achieve the stated objective.

This story originally appeared on AlterNet. There's a lot of buzz about COP15, the big climate-change meeting coming up -- what exactly is all the hyp...

For decades, environmentalists have described shrinking forests as the planet's "green lungs." But can pumping money into forests save the climate? Can climate protection measures preserve forests?

Blogger Cory Morning Star is reporting that international best-selling author and columnist Naomi Klein was speaking at an event in Copenhagen last ni...

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BARCELONA, Spain — As China's actions to curb gas emissions garnered praise at U.N. climate talks, the United States came under renewed pressure...

In layman's terms, the leaked document means that if the developed nations don't commit to deeper emissions cuts, we're screwed.

The UN's Copenhagen climate conference has suddenly become a thrilling place to be. It's the small islands that are making waves here - islands so small that they will drown if action is not taken.

The activists inside the UN climate change summit are relatively few -- a robust fence and police cordon keep the majority of the tree-hugging hordes at bay -- but they put on a good show.

First of all, COP15 doesn't refer to COPenhagen. It stands for Conference of the Parties, which is the highest body of the UN Framework Convention on ...

Canada is not passing laws to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is not setting science-based targets, and it's not financing renewable energy.

I'm joining Hopenhagen because everything I love and care about is at stake. I do not want the day to come when my daughters ask us why we did not do more.

Americans For Prosperity's Tea Party campaigns might be happening thousands of miles away from Denmark, but their impact is felt here at the COP15 talks.

Tuvalu wants to ensure that global temperatures won't rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can see why: if it does, their island could disappear beneath the sea forever.

The year was 1972 and my father, Philippe Cousteau, Sr., was filming another episode of the famed series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.

We only need to look at how fast world leaders acted during the global economic crisis to see how quickly they can get things done when they have the political will.