The December 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen capped off what must have been a very disappointing year for global warming activists and their allies in Washington. The year began with high hopes that the new Congress and Administration would enact global warming legislation and sign up the U.S. to a new global warming treaty. It ended with that legislation stalled in the Senate and with the Copenhagen conference concluding with an agreement so weak that it represents a step backward for the U.N. treaty process.
The reality is that restrictions on energy use in the name of fighting global warming are a costly and ineffective solution to an overstated threat. That reality emerged in Copenhagen and will remain a major obstacle to an ill-advised climate treaty or legislation in 2010.
The United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen capped off what must have been a very disappointing year for global warming activists. After high hopes of the Obama Administration, 2009 ended with global warming legislation stalled in the Senate and a Copenhagen agreement that doesn’t require emission reductions. Read More.
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President Obama and his congressional allies’ domestic climate change agenda—“cap and trade”—failed in the last Congress due to extensive opposition to its costly regulations and barriers to growth. Having failed to enact draconian climate change legislation domestically, however, President Obama has quietly shifted some of these efforts overseas by funneling… Read more
The United Nations' first significant global warming meeting since last December’s Copenhagen summit just wrapped up in Bonn, with no progress toward a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. This meeting was supposed to help lay the groundwork for an agreement at the next major conference scheduled for… Read more
Is it a good thing that delegates from the United States and 191 other countries have convened a U.N. conference in Copenhagen to work on a new global-warming treaty? Well, it's good to the extent that warming is a real problem. But the "climategate" scandal -- the release of e-mails… Read more
Q: Is the Copenhagen Accord a real deal? Are there any beneficiaries of this decision? What responsibilities do nations have going forward? To fully appreciate what a step backwards the final Copenhagen accord is, one has to recall the buildup to… Read more
Israel Ortega discusses the Copenhagen Climate Conference and efforts to regulate CO2. … Read more
Abstract: Copenhagen 2009 -- yet another climate conference. Fortunately, this month's conference, which had been well on its way to renewing and reinforcing the controversial Kyoto Protocol on global … Read more
Ben Lieberman is discussing the Copenhagen climate conference and "Climate-Gate." … Read more
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is supposed to produce a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty signed by the Clinton Administration but… Read more
Ben Lieberman commenting on the Copenhagen climate conference. … Read more
A global warming conference is currently underway in Poznan, Poland, with representatives from 190 countries debating a new treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. However, this meeting is not likely to be of great consequence for the U.S. After all, the timing is off--it is too late for the Bush Administration to make any… Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is attempting to do what couldn’t be done at the international climate change...… Read more
Data show 2009 was a record year for lobbying on energy issues. 1747 clients (firms and groups) hired lobbyists to...… Read more
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The 2010 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen ended as another colossal failure for the Obama...… Read more
To fully appreciate what a step backwards the final Copenhagen accord is, one has to recall the buildup to it. For the...… Read more
In his speech at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, President Obama told leaders from around the world that “the...… Read more
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting...… Read more
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This morning while President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference, his allies were busy...… Read more
The President just gave a brief speech here in Copenhagen to the assembled parties, laying out what he believes are the...… Read more