‘UN’s top climate negotiator, Yvo de Boer, is confident the UN climate conference in Copenhagen will deliver a political agreement with ambitious targets from rich nations and commitments to cut emissions growth by the developing world.’

via Yvo de Boer: Hope for treaty by June – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009.

‘Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations agency convening the major climate change conference that opens in Copenhagen next week, outlined three hurdles today that the delegates must clear to make the meeting a success.’

via Kerry, de Boer Preview Copenhagen – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.

‘NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India thinks it may be possible to cut its carbon intensity by 24 percent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels, according to provisional government estimates obtained by Reuters Wednesday.’

via EXCLUSIVE: India’s provisional CO2 cut target at 24 pct by 2020 | Reuters.

‘BEIJING: In an unprecedented move, India on Saturday joined China and two other developing countries to prepare for a major offensive on rich nations at the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month. The four countries, which include Brazil and South Africa, agreed to a strategy that involves jointly walking out of the conference if the developed nations try to force their own terms on the developing world…’

via Copenhagen conference: India, China plan joint exit – India – The Times of India.

More details in a similar article in the Hindu
(Thanks to Julian Wong of the Beijing Energy Network for sourcing this quote):
‘…Particularly, it underscored what were, for India and other developing nations, four “non-negotiables”: The countries would never accept legally binding emissions cuts, unsupported mitigation actions, international measurement, reporting and verification of unsupported mitigation actions, and the use of climate change as a trade barrier.’

BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — The State Council announced Thursday that China is going to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with the level of 2005.’

via China announces targets on carbon emission cuts_English_Xinhua.

‘Government officials and commentators welcomed Mr. Obama’s presence as an important signal that the United States was finally becoming serious about tackling climate change. But many of them expressed disappointment that the president would only spend one day day at the conference.’

via New York Times / Green Inc.

‘BEIJING (Reuters) – China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal.’

via Reuters/Green Business

‘President Barack Obama is to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the US in several stages, beginning with a 17% cut by 2020, the White House has said.’

Via BBC News

‘BEIJING — A joint statement by the U.S. and Chinese presidents on climate change is encouraging as pressure builds in the last few weeks before a 192-nation conference in Copenhagen, but the language leaves a lot unsaid, observers in both countries said Wednesday.’

via The Associated Press: US-China climate statement raises hopes, questions.

‘Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.’

via Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute – NYTimes.com.