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EU in cold as climate deal redefines relations

The European Union had hoped to use its pledge to deepen emissions cuts as a bargaining chip to coax the US and China into stronger action, but Barack Obama brushed aside EU demands and forged a non-binding deal

UN urges end to climate wrangling

Threat to legally binding treaty

Beijing rejects UK Copenhagen criticism

China: Miliband comments are ‘political scheme’

India welcomes Copenhagen accord

Re-affirms its solidarity with China

China hails deal despite being cast villain

UK blames Beijing over Copenhagen

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Comment & Analysis

We should change tack on climate after Copenhagen

The dismal failure of the UN talks may finally get us to face the facts about what works and what does not to cure climate change, writes Bjørn Lomborg

Copenhagen: A discordant accord

The failure of climate talks to forge a global deal increases doubts about the UN’s ability to solve the world’s most pressing problem

Dismal outcome at Copenhagen fiasco

Governments need to understand, even if they cannot say so, that the conference was worse than useless. If you draw the world’s attention to an event of this kind, you have to deliver, otherwise the political impetus is lost

Hopes for new order from climate chaos

Many participants seem to have lost sight of the reason why they are in Copenhagen: to save the world from what the majority of scientists insist is an impending disaster

Lessons of a memorably chaotic global gathering

The rich-poor divide will not be bridged as long as many developing nations frame climate finance from the north in terms of “carbon debt”, writes Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

Bah, humbug. For rich nations, this is not the season for giving

Given the murkiness with which aid is labelled and distributed, any promise is highly uncertain when announced and its implementation almost impossible to judge in retrospect

Copenhagen’s nuclear glow

The demonstrators in Copenhagen this week should come to grips with an inconvenient truth: alternatives to smashing atoms are costly and ineffective

Leaders must now agree climate deal

On Thursday some 115 heads of government will descend on the Danish capital to try to agree on a global climate deal. They must succeed – and not stumble over public financing

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Carbon emissions past and projected

Carbon emissions

Which countries and continents generate the most CO2? Find out in our interactive graphic that plots emissions in total and per capita since 1980

    Reducing emissions

    Climate change

    Interactive graphic: compare the pledges made by some of the world’s major economies to cut carbon emissions by 2020 from their 2005 levels

      Podcasts

      Breaking the deadlock

      With two days left to secure a deal the US attempts to break the deadlock by backing a proposal that developed countries should provide poorer nations with $100bn per year by 2020 to fight climate change

        Will the Copenhagen climate talks break down?

        Ed Crooks ,energy editor,discusses the possibility that the climate talks will break down before a deal can be reached

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          UN agrees need for reform of climate process

          Business chiefs hit at climate agreement

          Deal leaves plenty to play for

          Climate deal arms Obama for Congress fight

          Q&A: Was the event a failure?

          Climate conference ends in discord

          Chaotic end to a fractious process

          Responses to Copenhagen ...

          Climate negotiations set to rumble on

          Leaders need to re-engage public

          UN appeals for Copenhagen climate deal

          Race against the clock for climate deal

          Hopes for new order from climate chaos

          Marathon runners start final sprint

          The old world order is melting away

          Procedural disputes block climate accord

          ‘Big prize’ appears out of reach

          Kerry plays central role in crucial deal

          Minister ready to deal as deadline nears

          White House plans green tax break extension

          Climate deal in balance over aid

          Day 10: Delegate diary

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