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Bolivia responds to US on Climate Debt: "If you break it, you buy it." Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, has responded strongly to the US position on Climate Debt, saying "We are not assigning guilt, merely responsibility. As they say in the US, if you break it, you buy it."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 8:22am PST
Climate Justice Activists Enter Day 34 of Hunger Strike Wednesday, December 9, 2009 :A group of international climate justice activists have entered Day 34 of a hunger strike. The strike began on November 6, the final day of the Barcelona climate talks. On Tuesday, Democracy Now! producer Mike Burke spoke with Anna Keenan, one of the hunger strikers here at the climate summit in Copenhagen....
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 7:32am PST
“This Text Is an Extremely Dangerous Document for Developing Countries”: G77 Chief Condemns Secret US-Danish Climate Deal Wednesday, December 9, 2009 :The UN climate talks are in disarray here in Copenhagen after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. Moments before we went on the air, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the Sudanese chair of the group of 132 developing countries known as G77, condemned the leaked document...
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 7:30am PST
Scientist: Extinction threatens Coral Reefs unless CO2 limited to 350ppm 
COPENHAGEN. Dec 9, 2009. Extinction of Coral reefs and 10-20% of marine species is likely if greehouse gases aren't brought down to 350ppm, warned Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from the University of Queensland. He gave a presentation at the US Pavilion at the COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen about the threat of climate change to the world's coral reefs. Over 500 million people living in approximately 90 nations are dependant in some way on coral reefs....
Posted: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 6:51pm PST
Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen 
Beginning in the second week of December, representatives to the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen will wrestle with the challenge of climate change. This week, influential actors in the World Trade Organization Seventh Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva are trying to push for a conclusion to the nine-year-old Doha Round of trade negotiations....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 3:14pm PST
2009 set to become the Fifth hottest year on Record, in the Hottest Decade 
2009 is likely to be the fifth warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with the current decade being the warmest on record, eclipsing the 1990s, which in turn was warmer than the 1980s....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:26am PST
Gwich’in Elder Sarah James on How Climate Change Is Altering Life in the Alaskan Arctic Tuesday, December 8, 2009 :While 15,000 delegates, activists and journalists are gathered here at the Bella Center for the official climate conference, a people's summit called Klimaforum09 opened last night across town. Speakers at the Klimaforum include Sarah James, a longtime advocate for the Gwich'in people in Alaska. She traveled to Copenhagen with the Indian-born photographer Subhankar Banerjee, who has spent years documenting life in the Arctic....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:07am PST
"Would You Commit Murder?" - 15-Year-Old Maldives Climate Ambassador Asks World Leaders to Take on Climate Change Tuesday, December 8, 2009 :One the countries on the front lines of climate change is the Maldives. Eighty percent of the land lies three feet or less above the waves. The predicted sea level rise caused by global warming could wipe the country off the map. We speak with fifteen-year-old Maldives climate ambassador, Mohamed Axam Maumoon. On his message to the world, Maumoon says, "On the basis that you know what you are doing is wrong and you can see that the victim is begging for mercy, would...
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:06am PST
Burma, Yemen and Vietnam Hardest Hit by Extreme Weather in 2008 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 :The World Meteorological Organization announced today that 2009 will likely be the fifth warmest on record and the first decade of this century the hottest since records began.
Meanwhile, here in Copenhagen, the environmental group Germanwatch issued a new report ranking the countries hardest hit by extreme weather based on socioeconomic data. For 2008, Burma topped the list, followed by Yemen and Vietnam. The United States ranked fifth, higher than any other indu...
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:06am PST
As EPA Rules Greenhouse Gases Endanger Public Health, a Discussion on Obama's Climate Change Policies Tuesday, December 8, 2009 :The Obama administration has moved a step closer to regulating greenhouse gases. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency said six gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, endanger the environment and public health. The move would allow the EPA to take action against greenhouse gases without needing congressional approval. We host a discussion on US climate change policy with Damon Moglen, global warming campaign director for Greenpeace, and John Hickenloo...
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:05am PST
Ahead of Copenhagen Talks, Tens of Thousands Protest Across Europe Calling for Climate Justice Monday, December 7, 2009 :While protests are expected to start later this week in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people marched throughout Europe on Saturday calling on world leaders to reach an agreement to reduce emissions in Copenhagen. Protesters took to the streets in Belfast, Glasgow, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and London. The largest protest was in London, where organizers of the Stop Climate Chaos protest put the crowd total at 50,000. Participants in the march included Britain Climate...
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 8:05am PST
Climate Change and the Global South: A Roundtable Discussion Monday, December 7, 2009 :We host a roundtable discussion with three guests who have extensively studied how climate change is affecting poor populations around the world: Saleemul Huq, a Bangladeshi-born scientist and lead author on parts of the last two reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South; and Tim Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 8:05am PST
Copenhagen Climate Summit: The gulf between rhetoric and reality Monday, December 7, 2009 : Even before the two-week climate summit begins today in Copenhagen, Denmark, the goal of a legally binding international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions has been ruled out. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is due to expire in 2012 and Copenhagen was widely touted as the venue where a replacement document would be agreed. The more limited aim of a political consensus to meet the benchmarks of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is also highly unli...
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 6:42am PST
Top Ten Questions about Climate Change on the Eve of Copenhagen From a Monday, December 7, 2009 entry on Informed Comment a blog run by Juan Cole...
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 6:39am PST
Australia: Can Perth become the first geothermally cooled city While the world debates emissions targets and climate funding amounts for developing countries in Copenhagen, a new research centre was launched in Perth on December 3 dedicated to developing technologies designed to help establish sustainable, low-emission, geothermal cities. At the same time the Western Australian State Government is planning to double the number of coal-fired power stations at Collie....
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 5:21am PST
BTL: Coal Industry Plagues Appalachian Communities with Health Hazards BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine...
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 5:33am PST
Carbon Offsets or Car Ban. Off Streets? A Tussle Over the Meaning of Green 
In the days leading up to Copenhagen, it seems that everyone has been talking about false market based climate ‘solutions’ such as carbon offsetting and trading. A couple of weeks ago, I cycled over to the Green Festival in San Francisco, put on by the non-profits Global Exchange and Green America (formerly Co-op America), to find out why carbon offsetting continues to be promoted as a solution, despite evidence that it can actually worsen emissions, and provide psychological cover for carbon...
Posted: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 1:15pm PST
25 Years After Bhopal Disaster, Survivors Still Seeking Justice Thursday, December 3, 2009 :Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on December 3rd, 1984 in the city of Bhopal, India, tons of lethal gases leaked from a pesticide factory run by the US company Union Carbide. Between 8,000 to 10,000 people lost their lives within days. Thousands more died in the following years. Over 150,000 are still suffering chronic and debilitating illnesses. A new report released ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 8:33am PST
TELEVISION SHOW HIGHLIGHTS YELLOWSTONE BISON CONTROVERSY 
"Buffalo Battle" Airs on Discovery's Planet Green December 5...
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 8:46pm PST
Australian Marine Scientists call for climate action over Ocean Warming and Acidification A Marine Climate Change report card released by Australian Scientists has warned that: ocean temperatures have warmed; the flow of the East Australian Current has strengthened, and will likely increase a further 20% by 2100; Marine biodiversity is changing in south-east Australia in response; and declines of over 10% in growth rates of massive corals on the Great Barrier Reef are likely due to ocean acidification and thermal stress....
Posted: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 3:02am PST
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