Ultimately, though, without US China cooperation, a global climate agreement will be held hostage.

This year, a new global climate agreement will be negotiated in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Global climate change requires global decisions, and initiatives like the Roundtable Statement show that we can find areas of agreement for powerful action.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would be just one small step on the road to a global climate agreement.

The importance of moving forward to a new global climate agreement in Durban, South Africa, this year cannot be underestimated.

The EU s new global warming agreement may help win elections for leaders faced with voters scared by the prospect of climate change.

According to a timetable agreed in December 2007, we have six months to reach a global agreement on climate change in Copenhagen.

A Fair, Efficient, and Feasible Climate Agreement

Starting this fall, the UN SDSN will create a platform for all global citizens to participate in the hard work of saving the planet. The SDSN will offer a free, online introductory course to climate change, and then host a global online negotiation of a global climate agreement.

2009 is supposed to see the conclusion of an agreement on global warming and climate change to succeed and build on the Kyoto Protocol.

By then, we need a shared vision of a new global climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012.

CLIMATE CHANGE or global warming

In the next five years, we need to create a new economic vision for sustainable development and forge global consensus on a binding climate change agreement.

Global climate change requires global decisions, and initiatives like the Roundtable Statement show that we can find areas of agreement for powerful action. It s time for the world s political holdouts to join that effort.

This article is based on a piece written by Thelma Young for 350.org, an organisation building a global climate movement, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content sharing agreement.

Looking at preparations for the Copenhagen summit in December, when we will try to broker a new global agreement to combat climate change, does not make me grumpy.

Should I say Climate Change or Global Warming ?

Global climate change threatens Bhutan s ecology and economy.

The second megatrend is the global climate crisis.

MADRID Thousands of negotiators are currently gathered at the United Nations climate change talks in Warsaw, creating a blueprint for a comprehensive global agreement to be delivered by 2015.

Something akin to this happened during the climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009, where the US and China decided to oppose a comprehensive global agreement, effectively dismissing Europe.

During his mandate, the Secretary General will face the pressing challenge of forging a global agreement on climate change for the years beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol ends.

In four key respects, the agreement is a good one for those who regard global climate change as an important problem and want to take feasible steps to address it.

Climate change and improved banking and financial regulation head the current agenda, but soon global agreement will be needed on access to resources ranging from hydrocarbons to minerals to agriculture.

A global deal on climate change is urgently needed.

Our global world demands concerted global action to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.

But, perhaps more importantly in the long run, it would create the framework of collaboration and trust that is required if the world is to achieve a larger global climate agreement.

LONDON On July 9, the leaders of the world s largest economies will meet in L Aquila, Italy, at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) to discuss progress towards a new global climate agreement.

The paradox here is that the crisis presents a unique opportunity for the United States and China to strike a deal that would lay the groundwork for a global climate agreement.

Reaching agreement on climate change is an immediate priority for all of us.

Others will say that a priority should be agreement on slowing climate change.

Two factors differentiate global climate change from other environmental problems.

China will work for a global consensus on climate change.

Global climate change will affect the lives of people everywhere.

In addition, biogas could potentially help reduce global climate change.

Given the rapidly approaching 2015 deadline to negotiate a new binding international agreement on climate change under the Durban Platform, a US administration that supports institutional solutions to global problems is vital.

But, with climate negotiators promising to deliver the global agreement that they could not deliver in Copenhagen in 2009, the December 2015 summit in Paris is almost certain to be another debacle.

Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems demand global solutions.

These programmes include the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), and the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).

The effect of climate on agriculture is related to variabilities in local climates rather than in global climate patterns.

Americans now view cooperative action on global climate change more favorably.

Thus, global climate change is a public good (bad) par excellence .

Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC) and Global and Regional Climate Change Scenario Generator (SCENGEN).