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New Global Leader For A New Year: Kumi Naidoo
A new year has sprung from the hope and ashes of 2009. It’s a perfect opportunity for us to introduce you to Kumi Naidoo – the new leader of Greenpeace internationally. Kumi is also the first African to take on the job as Executive Director of Greenpeace International. In a recent interview with the BBC,…
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Joss Garman: Copenhagen – Historic failure that will live in infamy
Originally published in The Independent The most progressive US president in a generation comes to the most important international meeting since the Second World War and delivers a speech so devoid of substance that he might as well have made it on speaker-phone from a beach in Hawaii. His aides argue in private that he…
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Assessment Of Copenhagen Accord
It ain’t good enough. Not by a long way. It isn’t fair, it isn’t ambitious, it isn’t legally binding – and it isn’t going to save the world from runaway global warming. Our political team on the ground in Copenhagen have pulled this quick (interim) assessment of the details of the Copenhagen Accord. We’ll be…
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Not Fair, Not Ambitious And Not Legally Binding
What did we get from Copenhagen? Nothing at all like what the world has asked for. Speaking from Copenhagen, Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo put it like this: “The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a…
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Obama Fails At Copenhagen – Rudd Must Reject Deal
In closing hours of the Copenhagen climate summit, US President Barack Obama announced an alleged ‘meaningful’ climate deal – an agreement that was cooked up among a small group of countries. This deal was done behind the scenes and without any involvement of those countries most vulnerable to the early affects of climate change. The…
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Copenhagen In Crisis – Your Pressure Needed
With the Copenhagen climate talks at crunch point, a leaked document from the UN shows that the likely outcome of the meeting is failure. Greenpeace Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo is calling this “the single most important piece of paper in the world today”. What’s worth such claims? The document, dated this Tuesday, 15 December, is…
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Copenhagen And Carbon Capture And Storage
As I wrote last week, one of the many side meetings at the Copenhagen climate summit was a small gathering of countries that were plotting to undermine the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (designed to promote sustainable development) by including the controversial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. If it goes ahead, it would mean that…
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Things Are Getting Hot In Copenhagen
Things are heating up, both inside and outside the Bella Centre here in Copenhagen. Of course, there’s climate change, the greatest threat to our civilisation, that’s warming the planet and threatening everything humanity holds dear … well, we know that. Then there is the worldwide climate movement that is increasingly making its voice heard around…
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NGO's evicted from Copenhagen meeting centre
As I write this, security are moving through the Bella Centre and are evicting the NGO observers who refused earlier requests to leave. WWF, Greenpeace and a few other NGO’s have staff who defied the earlier requests to vacate the building but have been removed now. This follows the earlier removal of Avaaz and FoE…
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Not The Battle Of Copenhagen But A Battle For The Climate
Yes, there are police sirens all over the city. Yes, there are activists being arrested everyday. And, yes, today the police fired tear gas at a group of activists who were trying to “Stop the Cop”. It’s the conflict between police and protesters, and the poor Danish logistics (long lines at the door of the…