Tuvalu at Copenhagen: ‘The Fate Of My Country Rests In Your Hands’

Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, makes an impassioned plea for legally binding agreements to be made by world leaders to save his nation and other low-lying island states.
He notes that is is “an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world [...]

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 [...]

COP 15 Kickoff: Climate Action Hotline, Dec. 11

December 11, 2009
Day five of the UN Climate Change Conference. American delegates are joined in Copenhagen by dozens of American NGO and hundreds of American climate activists, many of them students. The U.S. call for action is strong inside the Bella Center, where the conference is being held, and outside [...]

CAN-I Press Conference, Dec. 10: Tuvalu Takes Center Stage

The press briefing on December 10 covered the dramatic action of Tuvalu in the negotiation hall, potential loopholes for logging in northern countries, and a focus on the EU, spotlighting finance issues. Experts on todays panel included David Ngatae, Cook Islands Climate Action Network; Saleemul Huq, IIED; and Chris Henschel, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; [...]