The Copenhagen Primer, a user-friendly guide to the 2009 climate summit, lays out the essentials of history, science and negotiating points. Four pages of charts show timelines of previous summits; important scientific discoveries; the main political points nations are arguing over; and projections of what various actions—or inactions—are expected to cost in coming years. It [...]
The U.N. Summit on Climate Change is underway today in NYC with nearly 100 heads of state in attendance to address carbon emissions and climate change. Several leaders – including the president of the Maldives and the prime minister of Japan — offered impassioned pleas to take action and make strong commitments to reducing carbon [...]
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