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"Copenhagen" anyhow, and why should I care? It's the venue for a Very Important Meeting. From December 7 to 18 2009, the world's climate "deciders" (ministers, lobbyists, experts, protestors etc) will gather in the Danish capital. The plan/hope/dream/nightmare is to come up with a global deal to replace/extend the "Kyoto Protocol", an international agreement that was signed by pretty much everyone who mattered except the Americans, and then ignored by pretty much everyone. Without an agreement to limit 'greenhouse gas' emissions, and bunging loads of money at poor countries to help them adapt to bigger deserts, higher seas, weirder weather etc, then the scientifically all-too-plausible fear is that the temperature of this pretty little planet will go up so far and so fast that the two-legged hairless apes who reckon they are "sapiens" will be toast. The smart money is on mid-term toastiness. |
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information: Official site for the meeting Official site of "UNFCCC" United Nations 'gateway site Business outfit- the Copenhagen Climate Council Brilliant news service- the Institute for International Sustainable Development Climate Radio Seal the Deal- UN sponsored "grassroots campaign" Grauniad sub-site (not sponsored by Shell, as far as I can tell) Financial Times on climate change The insider interview (May 2009) |
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resources: 1) "Beyond Copenhagen" piece from June 2008 2) The Copenhagen fish (latest version) 3) The Copenhagen poster (released late June 2009) 4) Cartoons: Crisis, What Crisis and Piece of Cake and Never mind the Bullocks 5) The insider interview (May 2009) 6) I ain't marchin' anymore (arguments against marching in London/Copenhagen, to be written yet...) |
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meetings on the road to Copenhagen: June June 22-3 Major Economies Forum in Mexico July G8, Italy, and then side meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy Security and Climate Change, organised by Obama August 10-14 August Bonn, Germany The AWG-KP and the AWG-LCA have agreed to convene informal consultations. Further information will be provided after the eighth session of the AWG-KP and sixth session of the AWG-LCA. Aug 31- Sept 4 World Climate Conference, Geneva |
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Reading: Danny Chivers' excellent piece on Climate Justice in New Internationalist Jan 2009 President Evo Morales' Copenhagen Solution Radical and wide-ranging response to climate change in the form of a clear-sighted, 20 point plan from the Bolivian President. NGOs Copenhagen Climate Treaty – Version 1.0 Can we get a deal in Copenhagen? Environment and Development NGO’s have already drafted one! |
Septemeber UN Climate Change Summit, New York G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh 28 Sept to 9 October, Bangkok Ninth session of the AWG-KP and seventh session of the AWG-LCA October November 2-6 November Barcelona Resumed Ninth session of the AWG-KP and resumed Seventh session of the AWG-LCA |