Environment

Obama to Meet With Chinese Premier Wen Obama to Meet With Chinese Premier Wen

President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will meet within hours in Copenhagen to try to break the deadlock.

Dec 17, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard

Breaking news from COP15 Breaking news from COP15

Leaked document predicts that current emissions reduction targets inadequate to keep global temperature rise below 3°C.

Dec 17, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman

Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think? Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think?

A candid interview with Ambassador Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping.

Dec 17, 2009 / Naomi Klein

Kerry Comes To Copenhagen Kerry Comes To Copenhagen

Kerry's COP15 speech shed additional light on America's negotiating position heading into the final two days of climate talks.

Dec 17, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman

Climate Structural Adjustment: We’ll Save Your Life On Our Terms Climate Structural Adjustment: We’ll Save Your Life On Our Terms

Unless every country here agrees to the U.S. terms, the Secretary explained, “there will not be that kind of a [financial] commitment, at least from the United States.”

Dec 17, 2009 / Naomi Klein

The Courage to Say No The Courage to Say No

The G-8 powers are willing to do just about anything to get a deal in Copenhagen. But the urgency doesn't come from a desire to stop climate change.

Dec 16, 2009 / Column / Naomi Klein

From Nicaea to Copenhagen From Nicaea to Copenhagen

The leaked "Climategate" e-mails undermine climate activists' claim to the moral high ground.

Dec 16, 2009 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

A Planetary Movement A Planetary Movement

The Copenhagen summit has witnessed the coming of age of a genuine, global and muscular mass movement on behalf of climate action.

Dec 16, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard

Lessons of Darkness: On Peter Maass Lessons of Darkness: On Peter Maass

For Peter Maass, oil is not a drug so much as a Pandora's box. Tap a well and base instincts spew.

Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin

Shell Games in Nigeria Shell Games in Nigeria

Prospects for lasting peace may depend on the oil company's dubious pledge to clean up its act.

Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Sasha Chavkin

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