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The United Nations process at Copenhagen was slammed as "appalling" by New Zealand's climate change ambassador yesterday, in comments to international media.

A confidential UN analysis obtained by the Guardian reveals that the emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit will lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C.

Climate change negotiators are looking to the United States for fresh ideas, and money, as they attempt to salvage a bare-bones political agreement by Friday.

New Zealand's performance on climate change has been ranked as very poor by European climate groups.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has been embarrassingly dumped from a climate change debate by the BBC.

Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation.

Opposition parties say New Zealand is looking increasingly isolated at the United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen.

E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.

The New Zealand delegation is likely to leave Copenhagen without setting a binding greenhouse gas target.

Emissions targets 'not enough' - China

The Copenhagen Climate Conference opened with a robust and angry defence of the science of global warming by two of the world's leading climate science figures.

The New Zealand delegating team in Copenhagen has the chance to help shape the course of human history over the next two weeks and it must not waste it, says Greenpeace.

In a few hours from now, the controversial Copenhagen summit will be under way - controversial because some see it as the planet's last hope, others as a scientific con job.

Scoop presents a selection of cartoon on the Copenhagen climate negotiations from notable New Zealand cartoonist Malcolm Evans.

This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languages

COPENHAGEN - The United States came under renewed pressure on Monday to take stronger action on greenhouse gases as delegates from almost 200 nations gathered at a historic climate conference in search of common ground in the struggle against global warming.

THE QUEEN won't eat our fish. Johnny Rotten is bad-mouthing our butter. Our dairy cows have been chomping palm kernel grown where orang-utans used to live. A consortium of 2000 scientists from 60 countries has written to the Prime Minister very worried about our sea lions.

“THERE is no planet B”, says the controversially sacked NIWA scientist and shared winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Jim Salinger. The world-class scientist has been rallying up support on climate change issues since he was abruptly fired from NIWA after “talking to the media without permission” in April.

Prime Minister John Key has revealed why he changed his mind about going to the Copenhagen climate conference.