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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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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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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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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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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…
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Copenhagen: Glacier By Glacier
The Bella Centre is a vast network of modern buildings and temporary marquees, set out across several acres of land on the outskirts of Copenhagen. It is here that approximately 15,000 delegates and an equivalent number of NGOs, media and industry lobbyists are working to reach a new global deal on climate change.
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Postcard From Copenhagen
It’s hard to fathom the complexity of what is happening here at the Bella Centre on the outskirts of Copenhagen. But there are many signs that big changes are underway. Question: why is Penny Wong so grumpy? This morning she was quoted in the media as saying that she thought the negotiations “difficult” (well, of…
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Loo-loo-see-eff Causing A Stir At Copenhagen
If you picked up the Sydney Morning Herald or the Melbourne Age earlier this week, you would’ve seen the front-page story about Australia trying to cook the books at Copenhagen. Kevin Rudd was grilled about it on ABC Radio – and it was about time. Heard of LULUCF? Most people haven’t. But it’s a HUGE…
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Rapid Response: Your Second Mission
If you picked up the Sydney Morning Herald or the Melbourne Age this morning, you would’ve seen the front page story about Australia trying to cook the books at Copenhagen. Kevin Rudd was just grilled about it on ABC Radio – and it’s about time. The big lie of the climate summit is finally…
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Pundits Say: The Best Walk Against Warming Yet
I had the privilege of being the co-MC for the Sydney Walk Against Warming rally on Saturday. And what an outstanding turnout. Around Australia, over 80,000 people took to the streets for an inspiring day of climate action. The biggest crowd was in Melbourne, with up to 50,000 people turning out to raise their voices…
