Listen to Michael Levi, CFR's senior fellow for energy and the environment, address the deadlock in climate change negotiations and argue that the world urgently needs a "Plan B" for Copenhagen.

CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi and CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon discuss the deadlock in global climate negotiations and the upcoming UN Copenhagen Summit in December 2009.

The 2010 World Development Report explains how climate change can hinder economic growth and says high-income nations need to reduce their carbon footprints and assist devleoping nations in switching to lower-carbon paths.

Madhur Singh places India's intransigence on climate negotiations into perspective, explaining how any international climate change framework will have to be acceptable among all nations.

Little attention has been given to reducing emissions of the light-absorbing particles known as "black carbon" or the gases that form ozone--even though doing so would be easier and cheaper and have a more immediate effect.

The free market has eliminated environmental hazards in the past, from leaded gas to acid rain, and it can solve the problem of climate change today.

David J. Rothkopf describes some of the potential geopolitical crises that could erupt as the world attempts to exploit greener sources of energy.

Richard N. Haass comments on the prospects for meaningful agreements at the upcoming Copenhagen Consensus conference.

Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, says U.S. domestic climate legislation might pass in 2010, after Congress deals with health care reform. But a global climate agreement, set to be discussed in Copenhagen in December 2009, is dependent on U.S. policy, she says.

Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal says if global warming really is the catastrophe the alarmists claim, the least they can do for its victims is not to patronize them while impoverishing them in the bargain.

A recent climate change declaration poses significant challenges--and opportunities--for India.

International Institute for Sustainable Development policy recommendations concerning trade and climate change.

This statement on climate change was signed on July 28, 2009 by the U.S. and Chinese governments in Washington, D.C., during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

An IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates special report on development of the Canadian oil sands.

Anne Applebaum writes that economic inventives rather than summit diplomacy will create the conditions necessary for a significant reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.