With less than six months to go before Copenhagen, the global climate negotiations are at a pivotal moment. After a two-week negotiating session in Bonn, the negotiations are turning the corner. Or are they? For the first time, negotiators in Bonn debated the draft text of a global deal - a mixed bag of good, bad and fuzzy proposals for tackling climate action -- proposals that will form the basis of negotiations over the next six months. Many key issues remain contentious, including the wide gap between what developed countries are prepared to do on emissions reductions and what developing …

As climate change impacts ramp up over the coming years, we have a serious choice to make. We can try to run in between the raindrops, or we can figure out how to build the equivalent of sturdy, innovative umbrellas. Millions more people, mostly living in the world's poorest regions, are expected to be directly affected by climate change in the next decade, Oxfam says.Courtesy Oxfam AmericaWe are facing this choice because even stopping greenhouse gas emissions today won't stop the warming due to happen in the next couple of decades. And that global warming comes on top of the …