Gordon Brown calls for new group to police global environment issues

Ben Webster, Francis Elliott Times [UK] 21 December 2009

A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say tomorrow.

The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be […]

UK and France propose climate fund for poor

BBCNews.com 28 November 2009

UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change.

Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Both spoke at the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad, the last […]

Krauthammer: Obama’s French Lesson

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 2, 2009

“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.” — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24

When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Just how low we’ve sunk was demonstrated by the […]

Obama rudely twists the lion’s tale

By: MICHAEL BARONE Senior Political Analyst Washington Examiner 09/26/09

Barack Obama, as my Examiner colleague Byron York has noted, has been snubbing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. This strikes me as highly regrettable and foolish in the extreme. Does Obama have some gripe against the British related to his Kenyan colonial heritage? If so, […]

LA Times: British PM gives American president spine, again

LA Times: Top of the Ticket by Johanna Neuman September 25, 2009

The array of world leaders was familiar. Against the backdrop of an international summit, this time the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, and an international crisis — disclosure that Iran has for years been building a second nuclear weapons facility — British Prime Minister […]

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