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The EU should face up to the realities of climate change now rather than later. Although international negotiations on tackling climate change crashed horribly in December's...

EU decides against unilateral increase in its emissions-reduction target. The European Union today made a formal declaration to the United Nations that it will stick to its...

The UN assesses the state of talks in the wake of December's climate-change summit in Copenhagen. In December, the nations of the world and most of its leaders met in...

A Comment:Visions debate On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Comment:Visions invited decision-makers and stakeholders to discuss the implications of the COP15 conference in...

Raising the EU's emissions-reduction target to 30% should be part of a new, six-point plan for the EU in the wake of the Copenhagen summit. In her hearing before the...

There are limits to providing a good example in isolation, and 20% is the current limit. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is not a beauty contest: it is not worth being the...

Necessity, self-interest and negotiating tactics argue in support of a tougher target. Last December, 135 members of the European Parliament from 14 EU member states...

Danish commissioner-designate shows nous and know-how in parliamentary hearing. Connie Hedegaard gave a bold and convincing performance at her nomination hearing with the...

The shocks of December and a new foreign-policy system should be used to establish a G77 alliance. The EU woke up this year to a new world – not just because it now has...

The warm glow from ratification of the Lisbon treaty has been quickly dispelled by cold blasts of reality from Copenhagen and Athens. The icy winds that have been blowing...

Structure of UN talks needs changing and US needs to be ‘much more' engaged, EU presidency says. The Spanish EU presidency said today that the United Nations must reform...

A look back on Sweden's six months at the helm of the Council of Ministers. Sweden's six-month presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 2009 was...

After the EU's disappointment over Copenhagen, what next on climate change? The charge that the EU was sidelined in Copenhagen is unfair, but Europe still lacked diplomatic...

Council president adds climate change to agenda of informal summit of EU leaders. Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, has added discussion about the...

Environment ministers call for a report into the problems at climate conference. The European Commission will produce a report of ‘what went wrong' at the Copenhagen...

Copenhagen summit ends without a legally binding document, and pledges on emissions reductions fall short of EU hopes. EU leaders voiced disappointment this morning (19...

Barroso says any deal that emerges out of Copenhagen will be weaker than the EU hoped for. Hopes for a strong global deal on climate change were waning on Friday afternoon,...

The last scheduled day of negotiations has begun in Copenhagen, with signs that serious bargaining has started. COPEHAGEN | “Parties have recognised the urgency of action...

In the end, the European Council of 10-11 December mustered enough unity to make respectable commitments to developing countries faced with immediate challenges from climate...

EU leaders argue that targets set by China and the US will “make or break” climate deal in Copenhagen. EU leaders have renewed calls on China and the US to do more to...