COP15: Senior US official maps vision for new energy future at UN climate change summit 11 December 2009 The international agreements being negotiated in Copenhagen “will propel all of us forward in the clean energy economy,” the US Secretary of the Interior has assured delegates to the UN conference on climate change, COP15, in Copenhagen. “Carbon pollution is putting our world and our way of life in peril,” Ken Salazar warned in his keynote address. “The places we love; the resources on which we rely; the peoples of the world who are most vulnerable, are all at risk if we do not act.”

PM Manmohan Singh, Wen may skip Copenhagen Nitin Sethi, TNN 14 December 2009, 06:00am ISTText Size:|Topics:Kyoto greenhouse COPENHAGEN: At 55 degrees and 43 minutes north, the winter sun sets early in Copenhagen, plunging the city into a cold grey gloom that only Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment Christmas celebrations can lift. But on Sunday, the chilling news that climate change talks could break down completely spread far deeper dismay in the Danish capital.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash. - (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology developed at the EERC at the University of North Dakota. Whole Energy is receiving global, exclusive licensing rights to EERC Foundation’s technology, which converts biomass and other recycled material into liquid biofuels.

India resists pressure to go beyond Kyoto protocol COPENHAGEN: India has opposed any amendment to the Kyoto protocol at the Copenhagen Climate meet as the EU pushed for an agreement that is "broader" Some of 30,000 people demonstrate in the center of Copenhagen to turn up the heat on world leaders debating global warming at the UN climate conference. (AFP Photo) Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment than the 1997 treaty and puts more obligations on developing countries for cutting emissions. The tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu has raised the proposal of adding another protocol to the Kyoto Protocol. Developing nations mainly India, China, South Africa and Brazil are, however, sticking to a one protocol approach.

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