The failure of Copenhagen: what now for the EU?

Raising the EU's emissions-reduction target to 30% should be part of a new, six-point plan for the EU in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.
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The EU has the opportunity to lead the world to a prosperous, low-carbon future while bolstering its competitiveness and the economic and energy security of its citizens. But bold and creative approaches will be required, and Europe must act now if it is not to be left on the sidelines of the next industrial revolution, the low-carbon revolution.

Bert Metz was chief negotiator for the Netherlands and the EU in the international climate negotiations from 1992 to 1998 and co-chairman of the IPCC Working Group on Mitigation from 1997 to 2008.

Twitter / Aram Dulyan

Those climate change deniers sure are fond of recycling: http://j.mp/8L1NHD

Twitter / Tanin Ehrami

Making Climate Change sexy to desensitize the masses http://bit.ly/7ypxr4 I would've picked this picture http://bit.ly/79PmBs

The Reference Frame: A subtle sentence on extinctions

For this reason, the original statement is exactly equivalent to the following statement:

Approximately 70 to 80% of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at reduced risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5 to 2.5 °C (medium confidence).

Carbon [swindle] market exec still hopes for U.S. climate [swindle] bill

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. federal climate legislation may still pass this year even though a Republican who opposes the bill won a seat in the Senate this week, a carbon markets executive said on Thursday.

"Our view is that it's not dead," Abyd Karmali, managing director and global head of carbon emissions at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, told Reuters in an interview.