MAYBE THEY SHOULD CREATE A NOBEL FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM TO GIVE HIM?:

Copenhagen is fast approaching, but a deal seems further away (Suzanne Goldenberg, 16 October 2009, The Guardian)

There weren't many signs of progress at the last three big gatherings on climate change. Barack Obama disappointed at the United Nations by failing to press the Senate to move forward on climate change legislation, while Hu Jintao offered no specifics on how far China would go to reduce its future greenhouse gas emissions. At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the industrialised economies fell short of expectations they would produce a package on climate finance. And climate talks in Bangkok this month ended in even deeper acrimony between the developing and developed economies.