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Showing posts with label Copenhagen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Copenhagen. Show all posts
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Video: James Hansen at Sydney University on 'After Copenhagen: Looking for real solutions'

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James Hansen visited Australia in March and his lecture at Sydney University is available online. This is an excellent scientific introduct...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Australian Climate Activist on Trial in Copenhagen

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Natasha Verco, an Australian nonviolent environment activist living in Sweden, and Noah Weiss, an American citizen who lives in Denmark, ar...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark

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Update Jan 5: Natasha Verco released but still facing charges | Listen or Read transcript of Natasha Verco being interviewed (ABC radio AM...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

We already gave the Danes a princess - give us back our protestor!

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Danish authorities are continuing to detain an Australian, Friends of the Earth activist Natasha Verco, for a third week since the Copenhage...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Queensland Climate Change Minister spins Climate Destruction of Great Barrier Reef

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In December Kate Jones, the Queensland Climate Change Minister, stated "Queenslanders are by per capita the highest emitters of carbon...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Brisbane: Coal 1, Planet 0 - time to take action on climate

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Friends of the Earth Brisbane have taken action to highlight the climate failure in Copenhagen with banner drops in Shopping Malls and on br...

Climate Shame: Copenhagen agreement fails UN processes and the planet

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Climate negotiations in Copenhagen ended with a whimper and some chaos in the final plenary. About 115 national leaders attended the Copenh...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Climate Colonialism: Clinton's $100 billion in funding comes with colonial strings

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The final theft of the commons is under way - the dividing up of the atmosphere and the "right" to continue to pollute. Secretary ...

UN Leaked Document verifies world heading for 3 degree plus temperatures

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A leaked draft UNFFC document dated 15th December shows that current committments of emissions reductions "remain on an unsustainable ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Australia's obstructionist role causes Developing countries to walk

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Copenhagen. Dec 14, 2009. Australia and Japan are currently blocking movement on legally binding emissions reductions for rich countries, ...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Australians send a climate message to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

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A huge crowd estimated in news reports at 40,000 people, participated in the Walk against Warming in Melbourne to send a message to Australi...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Bolivia responds to US on Climate Debt: "If you break it, you buy it."

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Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, has responded strongly to the US position on Climate Debt, saying "We are not assigning...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tuvalu makes a Stand at Climate Talks

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The UN climate summit in Copenhagen came to a temporary halt on December 9 as the small Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu demanded commitment ...

Australia shamed with a Climate Fossil award over carbon capture and storage

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Competition for the Climate Fossil of the Day Award is very stiff at climate talks. The satirical awards are a popular event presented by C...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

2009 set to become the Fifth hottest year on Record, in the Hottest Decade

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2009 is likely to be the fifth warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with the current decade being the ...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Union calls for 40% emissions reduction target and abandonment of CPRS

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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) which covers many of the researchers and academics who work in science, economic modelling and...