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Gordon Brown is pushing European leaders to commit to deeper cuts in carbon emissions in an attempt to seal a global deal, he revealed as representatives of 192 countries began negotiations at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.

To start with the basics: I don't expect this week's United Nations Climate Change Summit, a.k.a. COP15, to produce much from the perspective of global political change. I'm guessing, cynically perhaps, that the two-week event will yield more posturing and pageantry than productive policies.

The price of EU carbon emissions futures rose nearly three per cent to a three-week high of €13.96 (£12.69) yesterday as banks stepped up purchasing activity ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit next week.

As Lord Stern talks up the chances of a robust agreement, a leading climate scientist says it would be better to have no deal than a deal that puts world on a "disaster track"

Ian Powell sees Britain’s recession-ravaged landscape as a land of opportunity for the professional services firm

Even if the science was reliable (which it isn’t), we should not force the world’s poorest countries to cut carbon emissions.

Hopes for meaningful deal boosted as large numbers of world leaders agree to fly in for crucial talks.

Jeffrey Swartz cut the carbon footprint at Timberland and he wants Obama to follow.

Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world's chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said.

Developing nations call for UN body to police battle on climate change.