President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit. The president will attend the summit on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, the official said. Obama’s attendance had been in question until now. The [...]

By JORGE OSIT The 190-country Copenhagen climate change conference on December 7, judging from related news and opinions from pundits, is likely to encounter rough sailing which perhaps is only consistent with its hype as a make-or-break event for UN climate talks. For instance, the just-concluded ministerial meeting held earlier at Copenhagen last November 16-17 [...]