The outlook for the global summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen in December is uncertain.
As the president is here in Europe, we also have representatives of our government attending the Bonn summit on climate change.
The material belonged to some of the world's leading climate scientists and caused them difficulty just before the major United Nations Copenhagen summit on climate change.
There is a growing danger that this bill will not be passed through the Senate and reconciled with the House version in time for the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December.
His desire to make a difference has seen him working with charities such as Oxfam and SOS, while in 2009 he spoke at the United Nations' Summit on Climate Change in New York -- a far cry from his early days as a lonely child in Benin.
It will be hard to secure an EU summit deal on climate-change targets in December, for instance (see article).
It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you to this very important summit level Conference on Climate Change.
Mr Stevenson was leading a debate on Scotland's contribution to the UN Climate Summit, on 24 November 2011.
Memories of the 1992 Rio summit, which produced important global agreements on combating climate change and protecting biodiversity, as well as the presence of so many world leaders, had also inflated expectations.
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G8 summit in July, which is likely to focus on climate change and on the rising price of food and fuel, his popularity will recover.
He is clearly passionate on the subject, but having witnessed Copenhagen at first hand is realistic about the chances of the summit throwing up a full and lasting agreement on fighting climate change.
This summit will not be the world's last word on climate change.
They'll be talking about what needs to be done to ensure that an adequate proposal goes on the table at the next UN climate summit, in Qatar in December, for putting EU emission cuts (and possibly others too) under the Kyoto Protocol.
In a final summit statement, the three leaders promised to forge a joint position on climate change and also reaffirmed the need to reject trade protectionism.
President Obama did attempt to give global leadership on the climate issue, by attending the UN's Copenhagen climate summit in 2009.
These are the dog days of Australia's permanent campaign, a rolling partisan battle that began in the weeks after the Copenhagen climate change summit, when Mr Abbott mounted the Liberal comeback, and has gone on pretty much uninterrupted ever since.
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The agreement on climate change is a modest triumph for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and the summit's host.
The UN talks here are due to conclude on Friday, and to set out some goalposts as governments look to the next UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year.
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