Udgivet / published on: Saturday 01 May 2010 04:29
af / by Jeff McMahon
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<p>Just as feudalism proved too inflexible for industrialization, capitalism appears too inflexible for sustainability. And sustainability increasingly appears necessary for survival. Democracy and capitalism get along famously well, as America has demonstrated, and nothing can stop them. Except the planet. It’s the developed democracies of ...
Udgivet / published on: Wednesday 14 April 2010 04:52
af / by Jeff McMahon
<p>While Bolivia stole the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9F095HG1">headlines</a> at this weekend’s climate talks in Bonn, the usual suspects took the blame as the United Nations lowered expectations once again for a binding international agreement on climate change this year.</p>
Udgivet / published on: Monday 08 February 2010 18:25
af / by Dissident Chickpea
<p>During the days of action around the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Denmark - most commonly referred to as the COP15 - a group of radio ethusiasts hailing from around the globe came together to produce daily radio shows for Indymedia Radio in four different languages.</p>
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Udgivet / published on: Tuesday 02 February 2010 03:40
af / by Jeff McMahon
<p>Fifty-five nations have attached formal emissions targets to the Copenhagen Accord, the United Nations reported today. But most nations, including the U.S., are hedging their pledges:</p>
Udgivet / published on: Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:16
af / by Jeff McMahon
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<p>With the election of a Republican to the Senate yesterday, hope has dimmed that the United States will cap its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming year, and on that hope rests the greater hope that the rest of the warming world can do the same. But the world has no intention of letting the United States off the hook, one of its more patient spokesmen warned this ...
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 07 January 2010 18:50
af / by Robinwood
<p>Since the 18.12.09 ROBIN WOOD-Activists squat several trees in the Gählerpark in Hamburg Altona to impende the contruction of a heating pipeline for the planned coal power plant Hamburg Moorburg, which would mean the loss of the trees in the park. The company proposing the pipeline is Vattenfall, a Swedish corporation. With their protest they support two residents who have squ...
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 31 December 2009 15:36
af / by Jeff McMahon
<p>As often as socialism and communism are evoked to discredit the Obama Administration’s agenda, it can be illustrative to observe how communist governments actually behave.</p>
Udgivet / published on: Wednesday 23 December 2009 13:21
af / by Jeff McMahon
<p>In testimony before India’s parliament yesterday, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the BASIC countries–an acronym-jumble for Brazil, South Africa, India and China–would not have accepted a legally binding agreement. Political was the best we could get. And the difference may be negligible anyway...</p>
Udgivet / published on: Tuesday 22 December 2009 23:39
af / by Jeff McMahon
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<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is the lynchpin vote for the U.S. to pass a law limiting greenhouse gas emissions next year. He and Joe Lieberman agreed to play along only after Democrats accepted concessions promoting nuclear energy, offshore oil drilling, and oxymoronic clean coal.</p>
<p>A U.S. law limiting carbon emissions, meanwhile, is crucial to an equally f...
Udgivet / published on: Monday 21 December 2009 17:14
af / by Jeff McMahon
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<p>COPENHAGEN–President Obama walked into a meeting of the world’s most powerful developing nations Friday night, divided his opposition, and pressed the larger United Nations assembly into salvaging these two weeks of talks with the 2 1/2-page document that will forever be known to history as the Copenhagen Accord.</p>
<p>A brief history of the...
Udgivet / published on: Monday 21 December 2009 13:28
af / by New World ordre
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<p>In the world of the Agathe Christie detective character Hercule Poirot, one of his favourite expressions is that of “order and method”, and that of using ”the little grey cells”, i.e. the brain and a persons intellectual faculties. When looking at the tragic result of the COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the period of 7....
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 17 December 2009 06:08
af / by Jeff McMahon
<p>"Almost two weeks ago, the Obama Administration declassified about 1,000 satellite photographs of Arctic ice the Bush Administration had kept under wraps...."</p>
Udgivet / published on: Sunday 13 December 2009 15:37
af / by The Climate Figther
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<p>DEAR SPARROW</p>
<p>Your JUST so right, long since a so precise ionformation</p>
<p>regarding the Danish POWER-SYSTEM has been given.</p>
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Udgivet / published on: Thursday 10 December 2009 23:50
af / by IMC Features
<p><strong>11th Dec: For latest news coverage of events see <a href="/action_timelines/3">Timeline Reports</a> | Live Video from <a href="http://cop15live.com">Cop15live</a> | <a href="http://www.modkraft.dk/spip.php?article12153">Modkraft.dk Timeline (dk)</a></strong></p>
<p>From "the inside&q...
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 10 December 2009 09:47
af / by graswurzel.tv
<p>Short clip about the Social and Climate Caravan on their way from the WTO in Geneva to Copenhagen. Mary Lou and Tom speak about the caravan and their motivation to go on the trip.</p>
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 10 December 2009 00:15
af / by Takver
<p>The UN climate summit in Copenhagen came to a temporary halt on December 9 as the small Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu demanded commitment to a legally-binding agreement while industrialised nations refused to express an opinion.</p>
Udgivet / published on: Thursday 10 December 2009 00:02
af / by imc-features
<p>The <a href="http://www.climatecaravan.org/">Trade and Climate Caravan</a> [<a href="../articles/1399">more</a>] will finally <a href="../articles/1447">arrive tonight</a> to Copenhagen [<a href="../articles/1455">report</a>], meanwhile hundreds of activists are already in town putting the final tou...
Udgivet / published on: Wednesday 09 December 2009 22:55
af / by Takver
<p>COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - Fifty young Americans took over a climate denier conference hosted by a prominent conservative organization this evening in Copenhagen, rushing the stage and telling the live TV audience that a clean energy future is the real road to prosperity in America. The young people, merely a fraction of the more than 350 US youth in Denmark for the UN climate negotiations,...
Udgivet / published on: Tuesday 08 December 2009 10:52
af / by Climate Fighter
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<p>At the SUMMIT in Copenhagen dec 2009 it’s IMPORTANT to</p>
<p>show the corrupt politicians that NGO's, the people, are serious</p>
<p>regarding the climate matter!</p>
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Udgivet / published on: Tuesday 08 December 2009 10:44
af / by Climate Fighter
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<p>COP15 Save Planet earth!</p>
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<p>At the SUMMIT in Copenhagen dec 2009 it’s IMPORTANT to</p>
<p>show the corrupt politicians that NGO's, the people, are serious</p>
<p>regarding the climate matter!</p>
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<p>AND warning to all who demonstrates: the DP will p...
Udgivet / published on: Monday 07 December 2009 13:48
af / by Ed Hadfield
<p>Jeg er en del af redaktionsholdet hos Demotix.com, et nyhedsservice og fotoagentur drevet af vores brugere. Vi støtter ytringsfrihed og fortæller historier som er tit ignoreret af det meste af pressen. Vi glæder os meget til klimatopmødet i København i december og vil bruge Demotix til at få nyhederne ud fra Danmark til res...
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