As the sun had risen in Durban, the Durban Platform was passed at the COP 17. Yet in a replay of Copenhagen two years ago, backroom texts emerged at the 11th hour and the process was thrown into disarray.

South African Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, president of the COP 17,...

As international attention focuses on the economic situation of the EU -- the rollercoaster political-economic ride of events unfolding in Greece and Italy and the G20 summit in Cannes -- and domestic attention focuses on the Occupy Wall Street movement and the XL Keystone Pipeline protests, President Obama shifts gears...

Honolulu, Hawai'i - The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit kicked off on Tuesday, November 8 and runs through Sunday, November 13, 2011.

Numerous actions have been protesting the APEC summit. And not only here in Honolulu.

The summit brings together 21 Pacific Rim economies. Currently, the United States is...

Bonn, Germany -- On Thursday, specific nations presented their work to reduce emissions. Thursday morning, Canada, the EU, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Ireland and Switzerland presented their work. On Thursday afternoon, Denmark, Bolivia, the Czech Republic and the United States presented their current work to...

Berlin, Germany -- As polls closed today in Italy, voters had turned out in droves to scrap nuclear energy and water privatization.

Thus far, the 50% hurdle required for the voter turnout to count had been cleared. The latest count put the quorum at 57%.

Polling stations...

Bonn, Germany -- As the clock ticks on with the deadline for a second renewable period for the Kyoto Protocol looming, the UN climate negotiations remain stuck in first gear.

At the UN negotiations, work takes place through two working groups: the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA)...

Bonn, Germany -- Yesterday, a two-week long round of UN climate negotiations, lasting from June 6 to June 17, 2011, kicked off in Bonn, Germany. The talks will prepare the way for the COP 17, which takes place November 28, 2011 to December 9, 2011 in Durban, South...

Berlin, Germany -- On Saturday, over 200,000 protested nuclear energy in over 20 cities in Germany. In Berlin alone, over 100,000 persons demonstrated.

And on Monday, Angela Merkel announced a decision to phase out all nuclear energy in Germany by the end of 2022. It will,...

On Friday, December 19, 2008, Tim DeChristopher participated in a public auction. As the Bush administration moved to auction off 77 parcels of federal land totaling 150,000 acres for oil and gas drilling, DeChristopher, a student at the University of Utah at the time, bid $1.7 million for...

The most concrete goods delivered by last week's bilateral state summit between President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao came not from heads of state but from CEOs, as US and China-based businesses signed a deal through which China agreed to buy $45 billion worth of American exports.

President Obama...

Cancun, Mexico - On Friday, as the final hours of the COP 16 conference approached, representatives of countries most affected by climate change came together to make an appeal to developed countries "to do what is right" by fulfilling an ambitious second period of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol and...

Cancún, Mexico - As climate change increases, the World Bank is stepping up its funding for developing nations. On the agenda at this year's COP 16, is the development of a proper institutional financing system, and at the top of the agenda is setting up of a new Climate Fund....

Cancun, Mexico - On the antepenultimate (scheduled) day of the COP 16, I sat down with Bolivia's climate negotiator Pablo Solón to discuss how the COP 16 negotiations were proceeding, what Bolivia's demands were at the conference and how they were being received.

What are Bolivia's demands at the COP...

Cancún, Mexico -- It's crunch time! A draft text emerged this morning; heads of state and government have arrived and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is here. There are two days left for government leaders and their representatives to come to an agreement. Can they make progress? Can they...

Cancún, Mexico -- As the COP 16 kicked into high gear with high level ministers beginning to pour over the draft negotiations texts, Mexican President Calderón sought to avert discussions from stalling into gridlock by asking countries to meet in smaller working groups. (It was an attempt to break larger...

Cancún, Mexico - Yesterday afternoon, United Nations Environment Programme released the Emissions Gap Report, which seeks to assess how we are doing after Copenhagen, given the commitments made through the Copenhagen Accord.

http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/emissionsgapreport/

The Emissions Gap Report is based on modeling and scientific analysis from 25 climate modeling centers...

Yesterday, high levels ministers arrived to negotiate texts. Negotiations resumed this afternoon.

And today, heads of state started to arrive. They will discuss final draft texts on Thursday and Friday. About 20 to 25 heads of state are scheduled to arrive. Despite national emergencies in the homes countries, some...

Cancún, Mexico - On Friday, the normally staid and restrained atmosphere at UN meetings received a lively injection of energy and music, as about 30 indigenous delegates staged a peaceful demonstration at the Moon Palace, the main venue of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP16 in Cancún.

In 2006, Schwarzenegger committed California to a 25% cut in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 2020 based on 1990 levels through the Global Warming Solutions Act or AB 32. http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/4111/ It was the first such statewide mandate in the United States. And it does what most scientific bodies...

Last week, between 40,000 and 100,000 people took to the streets of Berlin to demonstrate against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent decision to extend the life span of Germany's 17 energy-producing nuclear reactors by 12 years, on average, beyond the expiration date of 2021, which had been agreed upon by...