Geoffrey Lean’s Posts

• False Alarm

  Copenhagen panic is premature 4

  Posted 3 days, 12 hours agoThere's a chance that, with luck and skill, a climate-saving deal can be reached at the Copenhagen climate talks. And a salvageable deal, even if it's far from perfect, is still is a lot better than the doom that was so widely pronounced at the start of the week.

• Letter From Europe

  From hopeful climate to climate of despair 11

  Posted 1 week, 2 days agoBarack Obama's 2008 election victory sparked real hope in international circles that the United States would again be a leader on addressing climate change. Less than a year later, the mood has shifted as it becomes increasingly clear that Obama's hands are tied by an intransigent Congress.

• Letter From Europe

  Copenhagen reality check: Gov'ts concede new climate treaty unlikely until 2010 3

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days agoNow it's out in the open. Key government leaders and U.N. officials are finally, publicly admitting what they have long privately believed: there is no chance of concluding a new climate treaty in Copenhagen next month.

• Letter from Europe

  Global climate pact may hinge on EU summit 3

  Posted 3 weeks, 3 days agoOn Thursday and Friday European heads of government, meeting in Brussels, will struggle to come up with proposals on how to finance measures in poor countries to cut emissions and adapt to the devastating effects of climate change -- the most critical of all the outstanding issues in the official negotiations on the new agreement that is supposed to be struck in the Danish capital.

• Letter from Europe

  London gathering gives boost to climate talks 2

  Posted 1 month agoRich and poor countries resolved some differences over a new climate treaty this past weekend in London at the latest meeting of the Major Economies Forum.

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