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After a brief boycott of the UN Climate talks on Monday, poor countries agreed to resume talks.

The European Union says poor countries have stopped their boycott of climate change negotiations and have found a solution to their dispute with rich nations.

Informal talks resolved the impasse between rich and poor nations ending the day long boycott, [...]

Over on the other side of Moncure, Dee Reid has been quietly publishing a fantastic blog about our foodshed.
I’m new to it, and I am eating it up.
The other day it dawned on me that we have a bunch of bloggers around here who dabble in like-minded foodshed issues.  Whether it is Tess with her [...]

With only a short working week left to hammer out a deal, one has to wonder just what are we going to get.

The mood at the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference last Monday was said to be optimistic and positive.

How quickly it changed.

It only took a day or two before China and [...]

A war on drafts has broken out at the UN Climate Change conference, on a day which also say the European Union (EU) commit $3 billion US to climate fund, the G-77 chief negotiator of walk out of talks in anger and a divisive split over a proposed the two degree target.

As the Danish draft [...]

A political tug of war is starting to emerge at the UN Climate Change Conference, and it is between the have and the have nots.

Tuesday saw a significant rift begin to form after the publication of a draft proposal from Denmark suggesting authority for policing the agreement move from the United Nations to the World [...]

Delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, had quite a day.

The week leading up to the conference, a report was circulating that Denmark, host of the conference, had a drawn up a text that was sure to come under fire. Yesterday afternoon Britains’ The Guardian Newspaper published what they claimed to be [...]

It seems I write a lot these days.  And it seems I never get around to Energy Blog.  So I thought I would “re-publish” a recent column in the Chapel Hill News.
There was a time when Evan would bring hard copies of the Chapel Hill News to the plant.  They would lie around the kitchen, [...]

An admission, a challenge, and an unnamed diplomatic source, sounds like the beginning of good mystery novel.

The UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen wrapped up its first day of talks with a some interesting developments.

The Admission

The Environmental Protection Agency, of the United States, came out of the closet and finally admitted carbon dioxide as [...]