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
U.S. delegation brings COP15 negotiations to a halt. U.S. delegation brings COP15 negotiations to a halt.
Progress on REDD. But little hope for forests without greater rich country commitments on emissions cuts and finance.
Dec 16, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
What is cap and trade? What is cap and trade?
An explanation of market-based solutions to climate change by Carbon Trade Watch's Oscar Reyes.
Dec 15, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
Naomi Klein: US Politicians, Don’t Come to Copenhagen Naomi Klein: US Politicians, Don’t Come to Copenhagen
The climate talks are heading into their final three days, and Naomi Klein worries that US politicians have run out of time to broker the deal that's needed.
Dec 15, 2009 / Katherine Goldstein
“It’s a massacre.” “It’s a massacre.”
An update on deforestation negotiations at COP15
Dec 15, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
Poor countries push back at COP15. Poor countries push back at COP15.
Are COP15 talks lurching toward the precipice of collapse?
Dec 14, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman