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India has been an important player in global climate talks, but lost its way in Durban last year. India has been considered a skilled negotiatior in international climate...

The problems with trees and statistics. Eric Johnson wrote in your opinion pages that official environmental accountants treat the effect of harvesting trees as...

Climate negotiators could take a leaf out of the global postal sector's book. The two weeks of tortuous negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

Power plants burning harvested wood can pack a massive carbon footprint. If a tree falls in the forest, do carbon regulators hear it fall and adjust their accounts? The sad...

Connie Hedegaard's risk in Durban was redemption for the EU after its embarrassing failure at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Connie Hedegaard, the European...

When the EU moves, others follow, writes the European Commissioner for climate action on the breakthrough deal struck at the Durban summit on climate change. At the Durban...

Agreement in Durban on a roadmap to a future global treaty will see Europe continue a second period of binding emissions cuts, but Green groups say the deal is...

Climate change deal includes all major emitters. The world's largest economies have agreed on a roadmap towards a legally-binding deal by 2015 to to cut greenhouse-gas...

South Africa and Brazil are now prepared to sign up to a roadmap, but other major countries are holding out. The EU has made a final appeal to large economies to sign up to a...

Little prospect of a deal at Durban conference. The mood darkened at the  climate-change summit in Durban, South Africa, yesterday (7 December) as negotiators failed to...

There are only two paths to choose between at Durban. Your recent report on climate change highlighted the debate in the EU about an extension of the Kyoto Protocol at the UN...

Commissioner for climate action says she still believes that the EU should not sign up to a second Kyoto deal on its own. Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for...

Hedegaard says EU must continue to push others 'in our direction'. Expectations have been lowered for the United Nations climate summit, which begins in Durban, South Africa...

Agreement on an updated binding deal for climate change will be very tricky. The Kyoto protocol is showing its age – and has been for years. In 1990, the year used as the...

The European commissioner for climate action on what she expects from the climate talks in Durban. Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, says that...

Split over how to deal with assigned amount units. National ministers for the environment agreed at their last meeting (10 October) that they were open to extending the...

EU wants legally binding deal to succeed Kyoto; presidency wants agreed stance ahead of Durban. The EU's environment ministers are to discuss when they meet in Luxembourg...

At the UN's talks in Durban, the EU needs to show that it remains committed to leading on climate action. Ten years ago, the EU stood firm in the face of a US pull-out and...

The mobilisation of national-level low-carbon projects and policies is extraordinary. The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride in respect to securing a new global...

Commissioner vows to push for climate deal and praises ‘balanced' agreement at Cancún. Europe must keep up the pressure in 2011 for a strong global deal on climate...