UNFCCC Talks, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009
There’s a lot of emails going around about what to do since the COP15 climate talks produced little more than an agreement-to-agree about nothing in particular. I’ll be adding my 2 cents in the coming days and weeks. Right now, I’m looking for something to lift my spirits, because I feel for the Earth, and…
Copenhagen, Dec. 18, 2009. Today is the last day of the COP15 climate summit and Oxfam GB has created the following Experts Live Blog– think of it as a twitter stream for the well informed. The live blog will run through the day and feature policy experts posting and trying to make sense of today’s…
There’s an article in the Huffington Post today about the problems, logistical and otherwise, resulting in NGO’s and other delegates being shut out of the Bella Center in Copenhagen even with proper credentials. I am here at COP15 and think I speak for a lot of NGO delegates and bloggers shut out of the Bella…
Copenhagen, Dec. 17, 2009. I’ve been at COP15 since Thursday last week and there’s a lot to be said about the logistical nightmare that is happening here. When I got here I had a letter of assignment from CBS Smart Planet, but the media accreditation process had already been suspended. At the media registration desk…
Copenhagen, Dec. 15, 2009 – In a clever stunt today at the COP15 climate summit, The National Center for Public Policy Research distributed bubble gum balls today bearing the warning: “Carbon Credit Gum: World’s Biggest Bubble” in an effort to curb enthusiasm for the creation of a carbon market in the United States. “This colorful…
Copenhagen, Dec. 15, 2009 – Today, more than 80 mayors from all over the world launched the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors with an opening press conference. The overall message from the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors is “Cities act.” It was emphasized at the press conference that cities are not only planning to reduce…
Copenhagen, Dec. 15, 2009 – President Mikhail Gorbachev and The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell have joined prominent business leaders, scientists and artists in a joint letter delivered today, calling on Prime Minister Harper to “dispel perceptions of defeatism” and to “rally the Canadian people” toward a clean energy economy. The letter’s authors point to the…
I heard the negotiations weren’t going well today and the African and developing nations walked out of the climate talks at COP15. As I was at the Bella Center at the time, I made my way into the Nigerian delegation’s offices where I was fortunate enough to secure this exclusive interview with Felix B. Dayo,…
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President Obama Delivers Too Little-Too Late Speech at COP15
After weeks of speculation and days of demonstration in Copenhagen over what the developing nations and NGO’s have been saying was our last, best shot to get a “real deal” for climate change reform — a deal that would help cut global greenhouse gas emissions by enough to turn back the tides, literally saving island…
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