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I just wanted to thank you for all the amazing support you have given me over the last year or so. We return from Copenhagen with an Accord which represents...
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Read moreIt’s the last day of Copenhagen. There’s not much time for reflection in this process but when the deadline starts roaring towards you the importance of what we’re dealing with...
Read moreSorry I haven’t been keeping this up. Frankly it’s been a bit exhausting. The plenary – when all the countries are in the room – broke up at eleven last...
Read moreJoan Ruddock took time off from her bilateral meetings with other European ministers to brief British parliamentarians on how the talks were going. Joan explained that Britain was pushing the...
Read moreJohn Prescott has arrived in Copenhagen – and has been able to dispense some wise advice on these big talks and how to get a deal. As he’s been walking...
Read moreEd Miliband has been asked along with the Ghanaian Environment Minister Ms Hani Sherry Ayittey to co-chair a group to discuss the financing aspects of a global climate change deal....
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Ed Milliband and Douglas Alexander fronted the British press conference today. Douglas said that his presence at this conference as Sec of State for International Development shows that the British...
I talk to John Prescott a lot about climate talks – since he was our negotiator at Kyoto. His best advice so far? “Walking and talking Ed, walking and talking,...
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First stop this morning – press conference with Douglas Alexander. It’s great he and Hilary Benn have been able to come out and show that the UK government’s commitment to...
The NGOs are creating a number of photo opportunities like this which are great for illustrating what is at stake at these talks – here is the WWF’s polar bear,...
"My simple message today is this: there can be a deal at Copenhagen. There should be a deal. It will not be all that everyone wants. But it was never...
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We're into the final week and we're not making enough progress. We're now getting close to midnight and we need to act like it. That means more urgency to solve...
The official conference was closed today so I put my time to use freezing on the streets, reading and sounding off about the Tories on Channel 4. It also seems...
Odd the things you do for the cause. In a frantic round of media interviews at the end of a busy day with texts and pledges and money and square...
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This conference is absolutely packed. And next week we are expecting even more people! There is some alarm starting to bubble up about just how everyone who wants come is...
Significant things out of Gordon Brown's press conference in Brussels: Through an ambitious deal the EU should commit to reduce emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 A financial framework...
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Day one for me starts with briefing and breakfast with the team and then travel on the Copenhagen metro to the conference centre. Holly Williams from Sky news came with...
I’ve just arrived in Copenhagen as part of GLOBE’s cross-party team of MPs from the national parliaments of the G8, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa. I’m out here...
I'm leaving for Copenhagen tonight. One of the last things I've done between phone calls and meetings with ministers from key countries and talking through the job and manufacturing...
Read moreJust a shameless plug here today for the good news for green jobs and the green economy out of the pre-budget report today. Not only a boiler scrappage scheme to...
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I know there’s been a bit of a flurry around a leaked text – of which I’m sure there will be several more before the talks are over. I...
I'm off to Manchester for the last public meeting I'll be holding before I go off to Copenhagen later this week. Friends of the Earth will be there as well...
Read moreQuick update this lunchtime - the Prime Minister is doing an exclusive video interview on the Guardian's website about Copenhagen. Today's the first day of the formal talks and now...
Read moreThis Saturday, I'll be holding the first ever ministerial mass phone call and I want you to join me. I'll let you know where negotiations are up to and take...
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The Countdown-to-Copenhagen clock in the department’s lobby I pass every day reminds me that we only have less than a week to go before the offical summit begins. There’s nothing...
Now sixty five world leaders have accepted the invitation to be in Copenhagen for the climate change talks. Gordon Brown was the first leader to announce that he would go...
Today I am in Copenhagen at a meeting of ministers from 43 countries trying to make progress in the run up to the December summit. I am glad to...
With a month to go to Copenhagen, I wanted to update you on the state of play. We are still going all out for a comprehensive, binding agreement, consistent with...
After a huge effort by people who've signed up to the Ed's Pledge campaign, the Guardian has reported that Ken Clarke has retracted his comments calling for an end to...
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I’ve been backing the 10:10 campaign - I was really pleased when the whole cabinet signed up to cut their CO2 emissions by 10% in 2010, and I know the...
Good news on the Copenhagen front - climate change talks are coming to London. The UK is to host the next meeting of the Major Economies Forum, where the...
Good news from Pittsburgh about phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels. Of course we have to make sure energy is kept affordable and accessible – but we won’t be able...
Read moreI'm going to be at the UN today where the Secretary General has called a meeting of world leaders to discuss climate change. It'll be a chance to urge other...
Read moreGood news. Gordon Brown has announced that he is prepared to go to Copenhagen to clinch a deal. He's the first major world leader to say he'll do...
Read moreThis is the speech I made at the TUC: It is a privilege to be speaking to the TUC as Labour’s first Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change....
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