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Posts Tagged ‘cop15’
Climate & Change, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 29th, 2009,
World leaders, activists, celebrities and youtubers are uploading videos on the COP15 youtube channel to urge governments and citizens to act on climate change. Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen, actress Emma Thomson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and model Helena Christensen are among some of the bigger names, but also featured are youth representatives and spokespeople from a range of organizations dealing with the issue of climate change. Ordinary youtube users are encouraged to upload their own videos to contribute to the discussion. The ‘best’ will be aired during the COP15 CNN/YouTube TV debate, which takes place on December 15….
Tags: climate change, cop15, google, Google Earth, youtube
Climate & Change, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 25th, 2009,
Your Planet, Brighter from Brighter Planet on Vimeo. In an effort to spread environmental awareness, Brighter Planet has a project called the 350 Challenge with the aim of encouraging bloggers and web users to be more carbon conscious. The number 350 is in reference to a related awareness campaign about the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere considered safe by many scientists – 350 parts per million. To make your blog fight climate change, simply go to the 350 Challenge website and follow their simple directions. You’ll get a cool ‘MY BLOG FIGHTS CLIMATE CHANGE!’ badge for your blog and…
Tags: 350, 350 Challenge, Brighter Planet, climate change, cop15, environmental
Climate & Change, Politics, Oct 10th, 2009,
To head off the worst of global warming, scientists say the world needs to slash its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, which would mean an 80 percent cut for developed countries. The Copenhagen talks will attempt to make progress toward that goal. Europe wants them to set targets of 25 to 40 percent reductions by 2020 for rich nations. –David Adam, Washington Monthly The road to and from Kyoto has seen plenty of speed bumps, potholes roadblocks, carjackers and – at least from my back passenger seat – a fair amount of road rage. That may be milking…
Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, cop15, copenhagen, global warming, kyoto
Climate & Change, Oct 1st, 2009,
Turn on your radio…(or synch your iPods), ‘cause a future hit is about to hit the charts. Duran Duran and the Scorpions will be joined by about 50 celebrities to record a re-written version on Midnight Oil’s “Beds Are Burning.” Bob Geldof, the organizer of LiveAid, will also be participating in the project. The single will be released to bring attention to the December United Nations Climate Change Summit, which hopes to come up with a solution to global warming. Read the full article here
Tags: Bob Geldof, climate change, cop15, LIveAid
Climate & Change, Politics, Sep 28th, 2009,
What are the UNFCC and the Kyoto Protocol? Unofficially known as ‘Earth Summit,’ the UNFCC first gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June of 1992 with the basic goal of establishing limits on greenhouse gas production. The treaty was non-binding and without legal power. It is therefore commonly referred to as a ‘protocol’. The next significant and most well known meeting of the UNFCC was in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, marking a commitment from developed countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. The United States famously did not ratify the protocol, citing the belief that the treaty should include…
Tags: climate change, cop15, copenhagen, greenhouse gas, kyoto, protocol, UNFCC
Climate & Change, Sep 24th, 2009,
Could Greenland become like the mythical Atlantis someday; completely submerged underwater? It certainly is possible with the increase in speed that the ice has been melting away. For weeks now, there have been reports coming out on the melting ice problems that Greenland faces, but it seems things are much worse than scientists have anticipated. Shrinking faster than originally thought, researchers discovered that 81 of the 111 Greenland glaciers are thinning at what could be described as a self-feeding pace. Basically, the edges of two major ice sheets are melting at a quicker pace; so the more ice that melts,…
Tags: climate change, cop15, global warming, greenland, ice, melting ice
Climate & Change, Politics, Sep 23rd, 2009,
“The objective of the Summit on Climate Change, which I am convening on 22 September, is to mobilize the political will and vision needed to reach an ambitious agreed outcome based on science at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.” –UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon It seems that no matter what is happening to the planet – whether it’s climate change, melting polar ice caps, vanishing rainforests, pollution, vanishing fish populations or oceans full of plastic – it will never beat good, old fashioned, domestic, popular politics. According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times, the United States and China…
Tags: climate change, cop15, Copenhagen summit, UN
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The fashion industry has Fashion Week, the movie industry has the Oscars and Cannes and musicians have the Grammys and MTV Music Awards. For the green community, it seems the place to be this year is The United Nations Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark, set to begin on December 7 and will conclude on December 18. Everyone is a-buzz about this upcoming gathering and many environmental groups are urging their local governments to participate or get their agendas on the table. But why is the world excited about this a conference? What makes it so different from all the other…
Tags: climate change, cop15, copenhagen
