COPENHAGEN – Today was the first day of the ministerial segment of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Outside, 15,000 people were standing in line for hours to get access into the Bella Conference Center, home of the climate negotiations....

The world’s farmers have to produce 70% to 100% more food by 2050, and yet do so while reducing the roughly 30% of greenhouse gas emissions that agriculture causes.  That was the challenge under discussion at Agriculture Day in Copenhagen on...

COPENHAGEN — Midway through the climate talks, we’re at a good place to take stock of where things stand. Negotiators from around the globe have made progress on a few fronts. Hundreds of pages of negotiating text have been boiled down to focus on...

According to popular lore, China is on the cusp of assuming the mantle of global economic leadership from the United States.  In the minds of many folks, the U.S.-led global financial crisis-cum-global recession is hard and indisputable evidence of...

ANKARA — In Turkey, the Swiss referendum banning the building of new minarets is perceived as just another example of Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims.  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “This decision is primitive, outdated,...