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According to The Guardian, developing countries “react furiously” after a draft text allegedly written by the UN conference’s host country was leaked Tuesday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted Tuesday that a robust agreement to combat climate change will be reached in Copenhagen and implemented immediately.

In harsh wording Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, defends British colleagues whose hacked emails have ignited debate over the credibility of mainstream climate science.

Indonesia, former chair of the Group of 77, proposes to extend the time frame for a new global climate treaty until June 2010. But there is a conflict of interests within the group, The Jakarta Post reports.

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, several West African, South East Asian and Central American countries may become future international migration hotspots.

No developed country is on the top 20 list of countries worst affected by extreme weather events.

The British Met Office has released world-wide temperature data into the public domain to give evidence that the globe is warming.

This decade has very likely been the warmest in the historical record, and 2009 will probably end up as one of the warmest years, the UN weather agency announced Tuesday at the second day of the 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen.

Even before any climate adaptation fund has seen the light of day, Bangladesh makes substantial demands.

France is pushing for a political agreement at the climate conference in Copenhagen to include a tax on financial transactions to help developing countries, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says.

British Prime Minister urges EU to lay the cards on the table.

European project will meet demand from wind energy producers complaining that the few links between countries and power stations allow little wind-generated electricity to be piped quickly where it is needed.

Negotiators at the Copenhagen climate conference should agree to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius by mid-century, and countries must make better offers of action, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.