YCAN brings you the best analysis and reactions of the dismal Copenhagen summit failure. A Climate Con – analysis from the Climate Action Centre Summary of assessments from leading climate experts Copenhagen as a historic failure – Joss Garman Blood on the summit floor – Jess Worth China is to blame – Mark Lynas George [...]

Australia has shamefully won the Fossil of the Day Award on day ten of the Copenhagen negotiations for pressuring our neighbours in the Pacific islands, in particular Tuvalu, to water down their demands and accept a 2 degrees and 450 parts per million CO2 agreement, which would all but guarantee that their islands and way [...]

Photo: The Age Millions of people in around 50 countries have marched this weekend to demand a strong, fair and binding deal at the Copenhagen climate talks. Around 100,000 protested in Copenhagen itself, while Melbourne had the biggest rally in Australia with police estimates putting the crowd at a massive 40,000 people. The Walk Against [...]

The following editorial was published simultaneously by 56 newspapers from all points on the political spectrum, across 45 countries, in 20 languages, in an unprecedented show of unity in the face of the climate crisis and the Copenhagen negotiations: Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through [...]

Excellent short video that explores the flaws with the current cap and trade model for climate policy pursued by most governments, including the Australian one via the inaccurately named Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. And for an interesting critique of the video click here.

Have you voted yet? The Angry Mermaid Award has been set up to recognise the perverse role of corporate lobbyists, and highlight those business groups and companies that have made the greatest effort to sabotage the climate talks, and other climate measures, while promoting, often profitable, false solutions. Named after the iconic Copenhagen mermaid who [...]

The climate change talks in Barcelona have just wound up. These are the last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit starts in four weeks. The refusal of the developed countries like Australia to commit to the necessary reductions in global warming pollution resulted in a walk-out by the African delegation, with Kevin Rudd and [...]

The synthesis report from the March 2009 climate change conference has now been released. This is one of the most important publications since the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. Click here to download a copy. The message from the world’s climate scientists couldn’t be clearer. The [...]

Last week, Copenhagen was the set for an extraordinary event. Several thousand scientists gathered for a climate change conference. This isn’t extraordinary in itself, but what made this conference different was that one of the purposes was to influence government policy. While this doesn’t sound like much, it is almost unprecedented in the history of [...]