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- With the UK election campaign under way in all but name, the FT’s Martin Wolf explains why he doesn’t fear a hung parliament – arguing that it might be just what’s needed to achieve fiscal restraint.

One of the most significant developments at Copenhagen was the emergence of the BASIC coalition – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – which negotiated the final details of the Copenhagen Accord with the United States.

Yesterday, I speculated about prospects for the Copenhagen Accord if Democrats lost their super-majority in the Senate. Well, voters in Massachusetts handed them a thumping – so what next?

Most people left Copenhagen thinking the next big crunch date would be the last day in January, when 49 or so countries are due to lodge their commitments for reducing emissions with the UNFCCC (they fill in one of two appendices to the Copenhagen Accord – “quantified economy-wide emissions targets for 2020″ for developed countries; “nationally appropriate mitigation actions” for develo

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Authors: Nyla Sarwar & Sabrina Chesterman
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the final hours at COP15 (United Nations photo)

Guest Author: Bettina Wittneben, University of Oxford
Hopenhagen (Image by:/kallu)

From Heather Coleman, senior policy advisor at Oxfam America.

$200bn could mean the difference between success and failure in Copenhagen said Oxfam International as the UN climate summit in the city today.  TheSummit marks the culminationread more

Oxfam applauded today’s announcement that President Obama will attend the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen at the same time as other world leaders.read more