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Environmental news from Portugal: Lost in the shadow of Copenhagen
photo by MattGDawson (Flickr Creative Commons) 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...
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Compare Your Country’s Emissions Target to Others via Sandbag
Image source: sandbagclimategame.org In the past few months leading up to COP15 (and even in the past several years) you may have heard or seen mentioning of different countries and their proposed...
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“Please help the world”– Copenhagen opening film
Image from the video clip "Please help the world" (source: COP15 youtube channel) The UNFCCC opened on December 7th, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark with a moving four minute film featuring a girl who has...
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Media coverage of Copenhagen: Climategate in the headlines
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...
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Copenhagen climate change conference: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s...
*from yesterday (December 7th, 2009) This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languages Used under license from...
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Breaking news from Copenhagen: Five top stories from COP15
Greenpeace Youth Vigil in Copenhagen, photo by solargeneration (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The G77 block of developing nations, chaired by Sudan’s Lumumba Stanislaus Di Aping accused developed...
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U.K. newspapers cover Copenhagen – diaries, blogs, enthusiasm, skepticism and...
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...
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Threatened Indonesian peat forests find fair-weather friend
‘Made up of decomposed trees and plants, sometimes as deep as 50 feet, the waterlogged land stores billions of tons of carbon dioxide. But once drained or cleared, the peat land releases many times...
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COP15 update (IUCN): Ocean acidification and mass extinction of marine...
Used under license from Shutterstock.com According to ‘Ocean acidification – the facts’, a special introductory guide for policy advisers and decision makers released today at UNFCCC COP15 in...
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Keep Track of COP15 Negotiations with the Climate Scoreboard
Source: climateinteractive.org People across the globe are following the big Copenhagen event. Businesses, schools, politicians, stay-at-home parents and even celebrities are keeping a close eye on the...
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Klimaforum09 – the people’s alternative to the Copenhagen conference
Naomi Klein and a 12-string guitar, photo from klimaforum09.org Right now in Copenhagen there are two climate summits taking place: the one run by the UN and packed with political luminaries and...
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Breaking: Connie Hedegaard resigns as president of COP15 with immediate effect
Image source: Wikimedia Commons UPDATE: Connie Hedegaard spoke briefly with the correspondents of LinkTV at the Copenhagen Climate Conference and stated that her resignation should not been interpreted...
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Strange scenes at COP15: curious news stories from the Copenhagen summit
A sculpture reminding us not to be climate pigs, photo from wwf¬_france (source: Flickr Creative Commons) So far the UN climate summit in Copenhagen has had its fair share of drama and quirkiness, from...
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Al Gore speaks at Copenhagen Climate Conference
Image source: Wikimedia Commons Despite prior communications that he would not attend the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Al Gore did in fact attend and speak at the conference last Tuesday. His floor...
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Video from CNN – on the ground at COP15 and Fareed Zakaria on ‘global warming...
Image source: Wikimedia Commons Here are two segments from CNN relating to the issue of climate change and the conference in Copenhagen. The first is a brief video news report which gives a glimpse...
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Is there anything funny about COP15?
photo by Cian O'Donovan (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Surely there must be some humor about climate change, environmental disasters and missed opportunities at Copenhagen amongst all the doom and...
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Copenhagen Climate Conference: Just one more day to seal the deal
Image source: Wikimedia Commons The European Union is going for a reduction of 20 percent of carbon emissions by 2020 (the reference year being 1990). If a strong agreement is reached at Copenhagen...
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The aftermath of COP15 – reactions to Copenhagen summit
Are you already feeling nostalgic about all the buzz that lead up to COP15? Remember the feeling of anticipation before the historic summit in Copenhagen? It was palpable – we were going to solve all...
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The Rachel Maddow Show: U.S. diplomacy and Inhofe’s ‘truth squad’ in Copenhagen
Senator Inhofe's impromptu press conference at COP15, photo by Andy Revkin (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Here are a couple of clips from the Rachel Maddow Show relating to the erstwhile COP15...
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Copenhagen Accord may Already be a Failure
Image Source: Stock.Xchng. By: Flaivoloka. Don’t expect any kind of global treaty from future climate summits. It most likely won’t happen, or at least not hold much importance to those involved. Only...
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