The message emerging from the climate negotiations in Poznań, Poland, last week was clear: the world has a long, rocky road to travel over the next year if it is to achieve the kind of far-reaching agreement that will be needed to stave off devastating climate change...

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POZNAN, Poland (AFP) — George W. Bush's last hurrah in the global climate arena has met with a welling of disdain contrasting with the outsized expectations for his successor, Barack Obama.

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Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May is a difficult person to interview at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland.

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The coming of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is "the one big positive factor that everyone is hanging onto," says Fred Heutte of the U.S.

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And What About the Land?

Yes, one knows that the economy and the climate are jobs one through ten, but I can't help but be a tiny bit concerned that the new Obama administration still lacks a Secretary of the Interior, a Secretary of Agriculture, a Secretary of Energy, an Administrator of the Environment …

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"Welcome to the Hotel California. Such a lovely place. Such a lovely place." That Eagles' classic was playing on the taxicab radio when I arrived in Poznan, Poland last night for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. ...

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A New Leaf: Tackling Deforestation and Climate Change Together

Saturday was Forest Day at the climate negotiations in Poznan. Many people think of forests in terms of the CO2 that they absorb, or "sequester"– the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia are known as the lungs of the planet.

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Global Warming has become too big an issue to address only through personal actions and at-home conservation measures. There must be an international agreement to address climate change through reducing all emissions and saving forests. World leaders must act now in Poznan.

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For island communities and species, global warming is not a distant threat – it's something that is happening now. Islands hold 10 percent of the population and more endangered, threatened and rare species than anywhere else in the world. Can these communities survive?

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RSA warned Australia would put a post-Kyoto climate deal in jeopardy if it failed to adopt a 2020 target of at least a 25 per cent cut in emissions below 1990 levels; Australia won't reveal its cuts at Poznan

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To cite some examples of climate change impact on indigenous communities, the report refers to unprecedented levels of ice-melt in the Arctic region, droughts in east Africa, and a rapid fall in crop yields in Vietnam.

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Australia will delay announcing its 2020 greenhouse target until December 15, 3 days after the UN Climate summit in Poznan concludes and despite prior assurances that it WOULD announce them at Poznan.

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