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Carbon-credit dispute threatens new climate deal
MOSCOW -- Russia is on track to far exceed its targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto climate-change treaty, but its success could derail efforts to reach a new accord against global warming, according to officials and analysts following the negotiations.
 

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More on the Dec. 3-14, 2007 event in Bali, Indonesia.

Gore Wins Nobel Prize

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Former Vice President Al Gores Shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. Panel.

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Visual representations of the effects of climate change.

  • Warm Trends  The "hockey stick graph," so called because its line resembles one, used data and estimates from thermometers, tree rings, corals, ice cores and historical records to chart temperatures over 1,000 years.
  • A Rapid March  Global warming is a factor in the spread of diseases carried by insects and water, scientists say.
  • Banking on Environmental Conscientiousness  Some reserach shows carbon "offsets" some researchers say offsets don't always deliver what they promise.

Special Report: Oil & Gas Prices

Read Post coverage of the financial and political debates revolving around the continued rise in oil and gas prices.

Climate talks remain alive, but so do many obstacles (Post, November 29, 2009)
 
Thinking globally to save riches of the sea: International efforts called key to halting overfishing, exploitation (Post, November 29, 2009)
 
China sets target for emission cuts: PREMIER TO GO TO COPENHAGEN
Moves could signal progress in climate talks (Post, November 27, 2009)
 
Tell it to the ice caps (By Eugene Robinson, November 27, 2009)
 
By 2011, greener screens in Golden State (Post, November 27, 2009)
 
Obama to set goals to reduce emissions: GOING TO COPENHAGEN
President's target reflects U.S. political reality (Post, November 26, 2009)
 
Fighting pollution -- inside your house: The right vacuum and a well-maintained HVAC system can help make breathing easier (Post, November 26, 2009)
 
Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows (Post, November 25, 2009)
 
Nuclear power regains support: TOOL AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
Even green groups see it as 'part of the answer' (Post, November 24, 2009)
 
U.S. to offer target for emission cuts (Post, November 24, 2009)
 
Six years later, gender-bending fish in our water supply remain a mystery (Post, November 24, 2009)
 
What makes this bird so special?: It's not just that they're cute. Penguins help define the effects of pollution, overfishing and climate change. (Post, November 24, 2009)
 
The Green Lantern: Should we go ballistic over rockets? (Post, November 24, 2009)
 
Looking ahead, Brazil's farmers take up reforestation: Demand for 'greener' products changes growers' tactics (Post, November 23, 2009)
 
In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes: Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics (Post, November 22, 2009)
 
India challenges Western data linking climate change, Himalayan melt (Post, November 22, 2009)
 
Awash in fossil fuels (By George F. Will, November 22, 2009)
 
In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes: Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics (Post, November 22, 2009)
 
The wind may carry a solution for Kenya: Desert will be site of major project to help boost energy supplies (Post, November 21, 2009)
 
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center: Scientists' e-mails deriding skeptics of warming become public (Post, November 21, 2009)
 
A climate threat, rising from the soil: Degraded peatlands in Indonesia unleash vast amounts of carbon (Post, November 19, 2009)
 
U.S. and China reach accord on data collection (Post, November 19, 2009)
 
U.S., China may come to talks with emission-reduction goals (Post, November 18, 2009)
 
Low-emission locomotives may boost public health (Post, November 17, 2009)
 
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Wire Updates

Upfront money needed to ease UN climate deal (AP, November 29, 2009; 4:14 PM)

Despite momentum, no smooth path to climate deal (Reuters, November 29, 2009; 4:01 PM)

EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact (AP, November 29, 2009; 2:03 PM)

Europe's post-Soviet greening _ gains and failures (AP, November 29, 2009; 12:43 PM)

EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact (AP, November 29, 2009; 10:58 AM)
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Bad climate for global worriers (By George F. Will, November 8, 2009)

Costly Carbon Cuts: Proposed Strategies Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable (By Bjorn Lomborg, September 28, 2009)

Could We Engineer a Cooler Planet? (By Samuel Thernstrom, June 13, 2009)

Bridging the Gap on Climate Change (By Richard G. Lugar and Henry M. Paulson Jr., July 14, 2008)

We're Carboholics. Make Us Stop. (By David Crane, October 14, 2007)
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Post Editorials
Signs of Life: An experiment allows oysters to make a comeback in part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (Post, August 6, 2009)

A Glass Partly Full: The long, fractious road to global climate talks in Copenhagen (Post, July 16, 2009)

Free Parking: Not to mention exercise, beauty and history at sites across the country (Post, June 21, 2009)

In the Bag?: The D.C. Council should approve a smart measure to cut down on trash. (Post, June 1, 2009)

Cold Reality: Addressing climate change is a job for Congress, not the Endangered Species Act. (Post, May 18, 2009)
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