The success of ongoing negotiations to establish a new global climate change agreement depends heavily on the agreement’s acceptance by the world’s major economies, including the United States. The new agreement is being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention …
The following was published in the February 2015 edition of Biores, a publication of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. Will the current UN climate talks do enough to create common standards for international emissions trading in …
In a preview of a tough year ahead, governments meeting at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, went 30 hours over deadline to hammer out a modest set of procedural steps, and made no real progress on the …