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• Dreaming of a Green Christmas

  
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  One of the biggest issues over the past year has been the environment.  In addition to the thousands of news articles covering such events at the United Nations summit on climate change, there have also been movements within countries for people to get greener.  Governments have been putting pressure on local ...
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• Friends of the Earth: UN Climate Conference Closes Without Adopting ‘Copenhagen Accord’

  
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  Press release from Friends of the Earth . On the day that the UN Climate talks officially closed, Friends of the Earth International warned against the false conclusion that the UN Climate Conference has adopted the ‘Copenhagen Accord.’ The Copenhagen Accord announced on December 18 by U.S. President Barack ...
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• Climate deal - A ‘powerful signal’ or a ’sham’?

  
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  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 19 (IANS) As the United States struck a climate deal with India, China and South Africa, President Barack Obama’s supporters hailed it as a “powerful signal”, but many some US environmental groups debunked it as “sham”.Calling Obama and leaders of the three major emerging ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
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  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• A Draft Political Agreement on Climate?

  
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  An early draft of a potential "political agreement" among parties negotiating in Copenhagen is beginning to circulate through the complex.
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
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  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• 30% of Carbon Offset Projects Amount to Hot Air

  
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  Nearly a third of carbon offset projects don’t live up to their stated expectations, according to recent analysis from Point Carbon, reports Business Week.The new report from Point Carbon shows that three out of 10 projects registered under the Clean Development Mechanism never actually get approval to be sell ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
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  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
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  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Friends of the Earth banned from climate talks

  
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  FoE are one of many groups campaigning for climate justice Friends of the Earth representatives have been barred from the UN climate talks in the Bella Centre in Copenhagen this morning. Every delegate from the international environmental campaign group arrived at the centre this morning to find their badges were ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
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  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• NGOs Banned from Cop15 Bella Center – Video Report of Sit In Protest

  
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  Avaaz and Friends of the Earth were banned from the Copenhagen Climate Talks Bella Center on Wednesday. Protesting Inside Cop15, Hope Wanes but Remains from Ann Danylkiw on Vimeo . About Ann: Economist by training, aspiring journalist in reality. Geek. Citizen of the World, legal resident of Wisconsin ...
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• COP15 Free-Fall

  
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  This morning two NGOs, Friends of the Earth and Avaaz, had their access to the Bella Center completely shut off, sparing a protests and a sit-in at the entrance. Hundreds of demonstrators from outside marched toward the Bella calling for the UN conference to be a "peoples assembly" and demanding "climate justice" ...
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• Copenhagen

  
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  I’m not really sure what my expecations were coming to the global conference on climate change in Copenhagen but I know that today turned out to be nothing  like them, whatever they were! (more…) Share This
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• Copenhagen climate summit: hundreds arrested at protest

  
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  Riot police fired teargas and arrested 260 outside the climate summit, while inside an emissions deal appeared in jeopardy.
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• Climate Action Network Letter to UNFCCC re Anti-Democratic Prohibitions on NGO Access

  
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  See this morning’s Friends of the Earth press release or this Guardian story for more information. CAN Letter CPH Access 16Dec09 Letter via Hill Heat .
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• Climate terrorism is the next thing

  
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  David Davis I warned people, time and again, about things like ALF, IFAW and the RSPCA. These were the breeding-grounds for the next big fashionable murder-scheme: climate terrorists . Much the same people frequent both camps. One never, also, really fully bought into the “Islamist” scare. Apart from 9/11 and ...
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• Friends of the Earth Suspended from UN Climate Talks

  
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  Press release via email. Members of Friends of the Earth groups from around the world who arrived at the Bella Center this morning to take part as official observers in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations taking place here were told that their badges were no longer valid. Friends ...
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• Civil Society Groups Squeezed Out of Climate Talks in Final Days

  
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  Reporting from Copenhagen Copenhagens mall-sized Bella Center, the command center for the largest climate change gathering ever convened, has exceeded its capacity, and thousands of registered civil society groups are now being asked to leave. The move is raising the ire of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
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   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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