News

Flow of pledges drives up UN expectations

Apart from the US, all industrialized countries have given targets for their greenhouse gas emission reductions. This promises a successful conference in Copenhagen next month, according to UN’s top official on climate change.
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Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month. (Photo: Scanpix/AFP) Read more

Blogs

Behind the scenes

COP15 sponsors 11 international students’ master degrees

13.11.09 The money normally allocated to gifts for conference delegates instead benefit international climate and environment students. Read blog

Climate Thinkers

Too small to think climate?

18.11.09 Andrus Ansip, Prime Minister of Estonia, is the latest contributor to the Climate Thinkers Blog. Read blog

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Climate Thoughts

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The Climate Quiz allows visitors to cop15.dk to test their climate knowledge. Visitors can also compare climate knowledge with friends. Take the quiz

Facts

What consequences can we expect?

Predicting the consequences of global warming is one of the really difficult tasks for the world’s climate researchers. (Photo: Scanpix/Reuters) Read more

A working laboratory for energy technologies

Energy efficiency in Denmark has been created by a range of new technologies, and today, this can serve as an example of how one can create high levels of growth. Read more

Climate diplomacy

By hosting the UN climate conference COP15 in 2009, the current Danish government has brought energy into focus again as a decisive political area. (Photo: Bent Petersen/Scanpix) Read more

News features

Failure in Copenhagen is not an option

If the world fails to deliver a political agreement at the UN climate conference in December, it will be “the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century”, says incoming COP15 president, Connie Hedegaard. (Photo: Claus Fisker/Scanpix) Read more

The essentials in Copenhagen

Rather than getting every small detail of a new global climate treaty done in Copenhagen, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer hopes the conference will reach agreements on four political essentials. Read more