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Climate Change, Politics, Dec 15th, 2009,
It has been expected from the start of the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen that there would be a clash of interests between the developing world and the wealthy industrialized countries. The rich nations cause most of the pollution and the poor ones suffer the most from its effects. So they would like some recompense or – depending on which nation you ask – at least be able to industrialize and pollute their way into the developed countries club. As actor/comedian/columnist David Mitchell puts it in Sunday’s Observer ‘our long, unaffordable global lunch is coming to an end’, we’ve asked…
Tags: Africa, copenhagen, countries, developing, industrialize, kyoto, Obama, United States
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 13th, 2009,
With only one week to go for the UN climate conference, thousands of demonstrators showed their concern for the environment yesterday (Saturday, December 12th) in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, site of the COP15 summit. Though many news sources such as CNN, the BBC, the Guardian and the London Times initially had the figure as ‘thousands’ or even ‘tens of thousands’, the southern Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan reported an impressive tally of 40,000 protesters. Sydsvenskan, which is headquartered only a short train ride over the sound from Copenhagen in the Swedish city of Malmö, referred to the demonstration as record setting….
Tags: activists, climate, climate justice, CNN, copenhagen, Guardian, march, protest, Sydsvenskan
Climate Change, Dec 11th, 2009,
One climate change expert favors the development of geo-engineering technologies that ‘suck’ greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. Another prefers a scrapping of proposed policies for the UNFCCC at Copenhagen such as cap and trade, which he sees as ‘business as usual’ as far as the climate is concerned. “There are enough technologies in existence to allow for mitigation,” he said. “At some point we will have to cross over and start sucking some of those gases out of the atmosphere.” –IPCC Chief Rajendra Pachauri (source: London Times) In an interview with the (London) Times Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental…
Tags: Climate change, copenhagen, geo-engineering, global warming, Hansen, IPCC, James Hansen, Pachauri
Climate Change, Dec 10th, 2009,
Here is a brief rundown about how British newspapers are covering the COP15 conference in Copenhagen. It is based on the papers’ websites, as I don’t dare exit my house to buy copies of them all due to an intense fear of increasing my carbon footprint. Richard Black, environment correspondent for the BBC News website has a ‘COP15 Copenhagen climate summit’ blog which you can read here. The London Times Copenhagen Diary is a collection of interesting, lesser known facts and trivia connected to the happenings surrounding the COP15 conference. The Guardian‘s Mathew Weaver has a ‘liveblog’ that details the…
Tags: Blog, Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, newspaper, summit
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The G77 block of developing nations, chaired by Sudan’s Lumumba Stanislaus Di Aping accused developed nations of ‘carbon colonialism’ by giving an unfair share of allotted emissions to rich countries. The reaction by developing nations is in response to a leaked draft proposal, which has been dubbed the ‘Danish text’. Read about it in the London Times and in the Guardian. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ‘fighting to ‘make up for lost time’. As well as announcing plans to adopt stricter fuel economy standards and the development of renewable energy projects, the EPA officially declared on Monday…
Tags: China, climate, cop15, copenhagen, developing nations
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 8th, 2009,
If so-called ‘climate skeptics’ think that the mainstream media is ignoring the story of the emails that were either leaked or hacked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, then they are obviously not watching television news broadcasts or reading major publications. Climategate is everywhere. If the Copenhagen summit is mentioned, so naturally is the Climategate scandal. Amazing what the words ‘trick’ and ‘hide the decline’ can do amongst a sea of otherwise boring, presumably impenetrable scientific language – all apparently camouflage for the ‘smoking gun’ that was embodied in one deadly sentence. The liberal,…
Tags: climate, ClimateGate, cop15, copenhagen, media
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The UNFCCC opened on December 7th, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark with a moving four minute film featuring a girl who has a nightmare about natural disasters brought on by climate change. “We have made a film which speaks to the heart rather than to the brain,” says the Danish director of the film Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen (from the COP15 blog). Watch the film below and see what you think – or feel – for yourself. I dare you not to get a little misty-eyed. “Please Help the World”, film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference…
Tags: Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, opening film, Please help the world
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 7th, 2009,
Portugal is not a country you often find taking up headlines in major international news sources. But the small Iberian nation has recently been home to two major events focusing on the subject of the environment, especially sustainable development. From November 20th – 22nd Portugal’s capital city of Lisbon hosted Planet Earth Lisbon 2009, or PEL2009, a conference celebrating the end of the International Year of Planet Earth. A project by the Earth Sciences for Society, the International Year of Planet Earth is actually three years long, lasting from 2007 to 2009 and ‘aims to ensure greater and more effective…
Tags: cop15, copenhagen, environmental, International Year of the Planet, Planet Earth Lisbon 2009, Portugal, sustainable development
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009, marked the final convergence of delegates to negotiate terms for a climate change treaty. Today—December 7th, 2009—marks the beginning of the biggest climate change conference in world history. Today we will begin to see if the last two years of talking will lead to serious action. Today we will start to see where the future of the environment lies. To quote a recent statement from the U.N.’s top climate official, Yvo de Boer: “Time is up. Over the next two weeks governments have to deliver.” The number of nations planning to attend the event has risen…
Tags: carbon dioxide, Climate Change Conference, co2, cop15, copenhagen, denmark, emission reduction targets, environment, greenhouse gases, united nations
Climate Change, Dec 6th, 2009,
Campaigners want Western nations to commit to an 80% cut in carbon emissions by 2050. –BBC News With COP15, the UN Climate Change Conference, only two days away, thousands came out on the streets yesterday to campaign for significant action on climate change. Organized by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, events and marches around the U.K. – collectively known as The Wave – brought demonstrators including environmental organizations, religious groups, trade unions and aid agencies together to voice their collective concern about climate change. U.K. Climate Change Secretary Ed Milliband told the BBC: “We’re going to go all out, the…
Tags: activism, Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, UK
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The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is finally about to begin this Monday. Our friends at Link TV, in partnership with OneClimate.net, are featuring Copenhagen live 24/7. This pioneering interactive TV channel offers us the possibility to watch the conference in Copenhagen from our computers; all of it live as it unfolds. I for one will be tuning in as I profoundly support this “almost” carbon-neutral opportunity to participate in what has been called “the most important conference since World War II”. Therefore, I embedded the live streaming player below. Be sure to tune in tomorrow, when hopefully we…
Tags: cop15, copenhagen, linkTV, live coverage, live streaming, oneclimate
Climate Change, Politics, Nov 25th, 2009,
In some areas of the world, trees have become a thing of the past. So many have died over the years; complete forests have vanished from sight and memory. It is a pattern that is starting to give the natural places of the world a very eerie, haunted-like quality. For the sake of trees, artist Angela Palmer has created the moving Ghost Forest exhibit as a means to show the connection between climate change and deforestation. Currently in Trafalgar Square in London—and soon to be moved on to Copenhagen—the exhibit shows 10 tree stumps (roots and all) collected from the…
Tags: Angela Palmer, Climate change, copenhagen, deforestation, Ghana, Ghost Forest, Suhuma forest, Trafalgar Square
Climate Change, Nov 19th, 2009,
Greenpeace now has a new director, and one with years of experience in the field. Kumi Naidoo, 44, is the first African director of this great organization and also the first executive director to come from outside of the organization (i.e. he wasn’t promoted from within). He is certainly passionate about the work he does, however. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, he said “we either get it right and all of humanity comes out on the other side with a new world, or we get it wrong and all the world is going to sink.” He also…
Tags: Apartheid, Climate change, copenhagen, environmental organizations, global warming, Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, South Africa
Climate Change, Politics, Nov 15th, 2009,
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Tags: cop15, copenhagen, eco-city, Green, Malmö, Pelin, Sweden, Västra Hamnen
Climate Change, Politics, Nov 5th, 2009,
Would you rather have the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change explained to you buy a source called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists or one simply called ‘Crikey’? How about ‘The Crikey clarifier (dumb questions for smart people)’? Sound like more your speed? I thought so. Never fear, you can read both. And to be fair, Australia’s Crikey gives a clear, basic overview of COP15, focusing on the when, where, why and who of the convention, with a realistic – if slightly pessimistic – expectation of the outcome. Crikey definitely doesn’t sugarcoat the coming Copenhagen summit as a panacea…
Tags: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, carbon emissions, Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, Crikey, ecological debt
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Nov 2nd, 2009,
As many know by now, COP15 is less than 6 weeks away. Come December, governments, businesses, organizations and people in general will be keeping a close eye on the proceedings of the Climate Change conference of the year. We all know that this big event is to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but how many of you know much about Denmark itself? I’ll bet it will surprise a lot of you to learn that from 2006 to 2008, Denmark was ranked the “happiest place on Earth”. That’s right, move over Disney World, the Danes have you beat for this title…
Tags: Climate change, cop15, copenhagen, denmark, environment, Nature
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 30th, 2009,
For months now, people have been pushing governments towards the climate change treaty goal of COP15 in Denmark. Protests were made, celebrities voiced their thoughts through song, and the number 350 spread like wildfire across the world. But it seems these efforts of ours may not be enough to convince government and U.N. officials to stick to their word (big surprise). Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, Janos Pasztor, said “it’s hard to say how far the conference will be able to go” because the US Congress has yet to agree on a climate bill, industrialized nations have…
Tags: carbon emissions, climate change treaty, cop15, copenhagen
Climate Change, Politics, Oct 27th, 2009,
‘It would mean sticking whole industries with trillions of dollars in unrecoverable sunk costs (all those coal-fired power plants whose financing depends on a 40-year run). It would mean paying a huge political price. It would mean aiming for a solution, not an agreement.’ –Bill McKibben If COP15 really is ‘do or die’ as it is being billed – indeed as predictions from climate scientists are saying – then the world is almost definitely going to choose the latter. That’s to die, in case you don’t get the whole attributive adjective thing. ‘Sinking’ as opposed to ‘swimming’, ‘breaking’ instead of…
Tags: 350, Bill McKibben, Climate change, copenhagen
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, 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
