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19-12-2009	EWEA Press release: Climate declaration is no international deal

China and the US go solo in Copenhagen
World leaders continued talking in Copenhagen rather than acting, says Christian Kjaer, Chief Executive of EWEA

Looking back over COP15
Eleanor Smith reports on her COP15 experience...

Local governments fight climate change
Local governments are already engaged in the fight against climate change...

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I will not hide my disappointment regarding the non-binding nature of the agreement here. In that respect the document falls far short of our expectations.

José Manuel Barroso, European Commission President

Unless...parties commit themselves to strong action prior and after 2020, global emissions will peak later than 2020 and remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to...related temperature raise around 3°C...

Leaked confidential UN draft

It would be hard to imagine...that there could be the legal or financial commitment that I have just announced in the absence of transparency from the second biggest emitter (China)

Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State

Copenhagen: Why it matters

by Chris Rose

This month’s world climate summit, known as COP15, can be reduced to one central question: Will world leaders agree on a binding formula that sees CO₂ emissions peak by 2015 and then decline rapidly so that global temperature rise can be limited to 2°C by the end of this century?
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More Wind = Less CO₂

"Harness the wind to tackle climate change"

The wind is an abundant energy resource. Wind energy is a real alternative to emission producing fossil fuels and, crucially, can be deployed and begin reducing CO₂ emissions immediately.

Wind energy is already fighting climate change: in 2008, wind power in the EU avoided the emission of 91 million tonnes (Mt) of CO₂... read more »