Climate Conference Embraces Copenhagen Accord

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network
COPENHAGEN — Seven countries, led by the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, this morning declined to accept the Copenhagen Accord that was reached late last night. But in a procedural move designed to put the agreement into effect, the conference decided to “take note” of the accord instead of formally [...]

No Truth But Potential Consequences For Inhofe’s Strange Copenhagen Trip

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network

COPENHAGEN — On the day that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed up in Copenhagen to say that the U.S. would contribute to a global clean energy and climate action fund that could grow to $100 billion in spending by 2020, Senator James Inhofe also appeared in Copenhagen.
Earlier this month, [...]

Final Week of Copenhagen and the Last Act is Far From Clear

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network
COPENHAGEN – Like all spellbinding human drama the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which today entered its second and last week, represents the accumulated chapters of an urgent script – the fate of the planet.

Everybody in every corner of the world has a stake. Island nations, some of them starting [...]

Big Copenhagen Climate Demonstration – Noisy, Colorful, Insistent – Pushes For Climate Action

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network
COPENHAGEN – Great social movements are about the intelligence and vision of individuals, and the compelling strength of crowds. Both have been in abundance throughout the first week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and especially today.
Wearing polar bear costumes, red suits and dark glasses, black jeans and matching [...]

U.S. Charm Offensive at Copenhagen Climate Conference: Will it Work?

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network
COPENHAGEN — Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pushed through a crush of visitors at the U.S. Center yesterday, stepped to the podium in front of a packed meeting room, and became the first of President Obama’s senior advisors to appear at the UN Climate Change Conference [...]

Deliver a Message of Resistance at Copenhagen

Civil disobedience works: it played a role in ending apartheid and segregation and in launching FDR’s New Deal, to name just a few examples. When an organizer presented him with a list of demands, Roosevelt said, “I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.”
Now is the time to [...]

At Copenhagen Climate Conference, Science Facts and Deceit at Odds

COPENHAGEN – Among the hundreds of riders on this city’s automated, energy-efficient Metro rapid transit system was Isakwisa Mwamukonda, an environmental policy manager for the vice president of Tanzania. We had half a dozen stops between the tight-cornered streets of Copenhagen’s downtown and the Bella Center, site of the UN Climate Change Conference, to explore [...]

A Scientific Hack Job That Won’t Cripple Climate Talks

Editors note: Once again, the opponents of climate action are relying on spurious, deceptive, dishonest, and possibly illegal practices to disrupt the world’s steady march to achieving a solution to a warming planet. Late last week it was revealed that hackers broke into an email cache at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University [...]

Copenhagen Climate Progress Feels More Real

By David Turnbull
Climate Action Network
As Copenhagen prepares for December, a strange combination of Christmas lights, clean energy expos, evergreen wreaths, and security barriers have begun to crop up around the city.  It’s an exciting time to be in Copenhagen, reflecting on a year of intense pressure, activity, and engagement around the world.
Over the past several [...]

Although Still Unclear, Copenhagen Meeting Will Produce Real Progress

By David Turnbull
Climate Action Network 
Waking up almost a week ago on a dreary Sunday morning in Copenhagen (where I’ve recently moved to prepare for the upcoming climate talks in December), I was met with a barrage of headlines, mostly from U.S. media. Their message: Copenhagen is doomed to total failure and I might as well [...]

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