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Greenland Play Dramatises Our Inept Responses to Climate Change

February 8, 2011

Plays about climate change are all the rage in London right now. What with The Heretic at the Royal Court and Greenland at The National playing simultaneously, it appears theater land is suddenly making a conscious effort to get involved in the clima…

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The Creative, Colorful Climate Protests of Cancun 2010 (Photos)

December 14, 2010

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If the UN Had a Home Security Unit … (Video)

December 14, 2010

What if the UN were charged with protecting neighborhoods from burglars, using the same methods it does to protect members of the international community from injustice from other nations? That’s the premise of this Upright Citizens Brigade video th…

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Top UN Climate Chief: Idea of a "Big Bang" Agreement a "Myth" (Video)

September 24, 2010

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I’d been meaning to write about this statement, made by Christiana Figueres, the new UN Climate Chief, since she made it a couple days ago, at a panel I attended at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. What she’s talking about, of cou…

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Why Conservation Won’t Save the World’s Forests (Video)

September 23, 2010

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And why we might need to sell forests to save them
“Conservation has a place,” says, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana on the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative. “Despite all [the conservation groups'] good work,” he says…

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Kevin Rudd: 3 Good Things Came Out of Copenhagen (Video)

September 23, 2010

Unless you’re a climate policy wonk or a close follower of all things global warming, here’s what you probably remember about Copenhagen: It sucked. It was a failure. Crash and Burn. In reality, it wasn’t the absolute loss that many perceive and stil…

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Brazil’s Climate Chief Dampens Hopes for COP16

August 1, 2010

It will be another four months until leaders from around the world gather for COP16 in Mexico, but expectations for the meeting’s outcome are hardly optimistic. After last year’s UN climate summit in Copenhagen produced a less-than-ideal result, the …

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World Nations’ Current ‘Paltry’ Emissions Cuts Will Lead to 3C Rise

April 21, 2010

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Those of us that tried to be optimistic about Copenhagen often pointed to the fact that a non-binding treaty was better than no treaty at all, and that the voluntary pledges made by nations to curb their emissions was indeed going to be have an impact. Well, the scientists are not so optimistic. A recent article by scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany in the journal Nature puts it bluntly: the ‘paltry’ pledges by nations who s…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Video: RAN’s Names The Copenhagen Accord As Its Greenwash of the Week

April 12, 2010

Rainforest Action Network has used its “Greenwash of the Week” show to mock the efficacy of The Copenhagen Accord, the deal President Obama is said to have brokered at the international climate talks in Denmark last December. The Accord is viewed by some as weak because it allows for countries to “pledge” their emissions reduction goals, but the countries are not legally bound to meet their pledges. The Accord is also soft on funding com…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Leaked Confidential Document Reveals Obama’s Climate Strategy

April 12, 2010

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The Guardian has obtained a confidential document accidentally left on a hotel computer in Europe by a member of the Obama administration. The British newspaper says it “reveals the US government’s increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks.” They’ve reproduced the entire document online–but what does the classified paper reveal about US plans for brokering a climate agreement on the international stage? I’ll include the entire…Read the full story on TreeHugger