Climate challenge even greater after UN meeting in Bonn

Polish Prime Minister takes step towards EU leadership at UN Climate Summit

You asked and Poland answered. More than 16,000 of you have taken action and demanded that world leaders personally attend the UN Climate Summit in December. Today, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk became the first Head of State to respond directly to our call for world leaders to attend the meeting in Copenhagen by agreeing to attend the summit himself.

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Climate negotiators back out again in Bonn

Another round of climate talks is over, this time in Bonn, Germany. Once again negotiators are leaving without a plan or having left any money on the table to tackle climate change.

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Climate meeting in Bonn: save the forests, but don't cheapen carbon

If we're to have a hope of saving our planet from runaway climate change, we need to make it expensive for industry to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, and we need to make it profitable for countries like Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to preserve their tropical rainforests. Sounds angelically simple, but we need real leadership at the Bonn climate conference to get the devil out of the details.

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Climate meeting in Bonn: leaders wanted

When the future of the world is at stake, the last thing you need is a politician. You need a real leader. And that's our challenge to governments attending the first round of international climate talks in Bonn.