What would it take for you to leave your comfortable car at home and jump on a bicycle to get to work, school, or even to go shopping? As cities focus more and more on clean energy, residents of Copenhagen – a developed city – have adopted cycling as the preferred mode of transport. Rosalia Omungo reports on the Copenhagen cycling experience.

Nearly 35 people were reported dead in Kenya in the first few weeks of January, following heavy rains. The Meteorological Department says the rains will subside by the end of the month, but the destruction in their wake is linked to years of environmental degradation. Rosalia Omungo reports on the reality beyond the Copenhagen summit.

The fate of climate negotiations in Copenhagen hangs in the balance after African nations suspended talks today. Even though the talks later resumed, the African Group and G77 plus China accused the Danish host government of trying to sideline talks on setting more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. The Africa Group is rooting for a two track system, in which the Kyoto Protocol is continued in conjunction with other long term agreements.

Anxiety is growing at the Copenhagen climate talks as ambitious deal looks increasingly unlikely. Some analysts say pressure will now shift to the political leaders who have started arriving in the city to ’salvage’ the talks.

Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister, speaks to Indian journalists at around the halfway mark of the Copenhagen talks. Here, he talks about how the BASIC group solved the Africa walk-out, on how the US could be brought into a deal and on how the negotiations are moving.

Deep disagreements between the European Commission and developing countries spill out off the negotiating rooms and into full public view. Watch here as Karl Falkenberg of the EU and Ambassador C Dasgupta from India clash over the issue of ‘climate justice’ and who should be taking responsibility for cutting emissions.

How one small Danish island transformed itself from a quiet backwater to a pioneer in the world’s clean energy revolution.

GMANews.TV’s video contributor Pia Faustino was one of the few Filipino journalists lucky enough to cover the entire Copenhagen talks. For the video below, she asked a fellow journalist at the conference to follow her around the cavernous Bella Center, the main venue for meetings but also for quirky protest actions, to educate us on the conference and the discussions taking place at COP15.

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In this video by Pia Faustino, GMANews.TV’s correspondent in Copenhagen, members of the Philippine delegation size up President Obama’s speech. One delegate, despite being disappointed with Obama’s speech, found inspiration in an unexpected source: the rousing words of Brazilian President Lula de Silva.

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