Bureaucratic Beginnings: The powers that be have always envisioned a global energy regulatory system.

The Annual Meeting of the Conference of Parties: Yearly mega-conferences have kept nations on track to achieve the ultimate objective.

What happens at a COP meeting?: While the public is distracted by an outward circus-like atmosphere, "stewards of the planet" make policy behind closed doors.

From Kyoto to Copenhagen: One step at a time, earth's nations are being led to surrender their right to determine their own destinies.