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• Earth to Thomas Friedman: Winning the “Earth Race” Requires Federal Investment

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  Cross-posted from Americans for Energy Leadership In a major departure from conventional climate wisdom, Thomas Friedman argues in today’s New York Times that the UNFCCC framework is broken and should be replaced by a global competition in the clean-tech industry, which he says the United States can and should lead. “Let [...]
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  Posted: December 20, 2009, 12:03pm EST
  by Teryn Norris

• Guest Post: Where We Go From Here

  This is a guest post contributed by Zach Kitamura, an inspiring Pacific University freshman I’ve had the honor of working with this year.  I wholeheartedly agree with Zach that we must channel the frustration and disillusionment of this moment into action makes our movement even more effective.  As a start [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:46pm EST
  by nickengelfried

• DOPENHAGEN: Forests Fail Fast but We Move Forward

  Bloodshed with REDD. Talks of saving the world’s last remaining forests and the communities who depend on them came to a grinding halt at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations. Initial agreement on a global target to reduce deforestation and other safeguards were either moved from operational part of [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:57pm EST
  by summerrayneoakes

• The End of COP15, and the end of the Fast. So how do we all feel?

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  Cross-posted from www.climatejusticefast.com === Distress, confusion, hurt, anger? Hope, passion, energy? Emotion! Let it all out, people! Personally, I am feeling a very strange and beautiful feeling today, as we concluded the fast, after 43 days entirely without food, coinciding with the disappointing end of COP15. It is a mix of feelings – disappointment [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  by AnnaCKeenan

• Open Letter to Bill McKibben: Blaming Obama for Copenhagen Is Wrong

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  Update 12/20/09: Bill McKibben has responded below Open Letter to Bill McKibben: Blaming Obama for Copenhagen Is Wrong December 19th, 2009 Dear Bill, Yesterday, in response to the end of the Copenhagen negotiations, you issued a press release with 350.org titled “The President has wrecked the UN (and the planet),” in which you wrote: [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  by Teryn Norris

• Out of the frying pan and into the streets!, or “How I stopped lobbying and put up my dukes!”

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  (at risk of offense to those that worked stalwartly at ends that haven’t borne fruit-where-expected, as revealed by Copenhagen) The failure of Copenhagen’s COP15 climate talks may be that much-needed dose of what could embolden and broaden the climate movement here in the States: a sobering piece of disillusionment to fan [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:13am EST
  by tanuki

• The Fight for the UN: “Collective action is the only effective action”

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  Just when you thought things were over… Last night, the media made a big hoopla about a supposed “Copenhagen Accord” that President Obama helped negotiate and heralded it as the final result of Copenhagen climate talks. They were wrong. As last night went on, it was clear that the entire world wasn’t [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 6:49am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Liveblog: Copenhagen End Game (Continued)

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  For detailed updates as it happens, follow some of our writers on Twitter: Ben Powless -   Zoë Caron -   Juan Hoffmaister -   Matthew Carroll -   Liz McDowell -   Caroline Howe Note: Matt’s incredible description of the beginning of this session are fabulous. You can check out our live notes, or [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 1:23am EST
  by Caroline Howe

• Battle Until Dawn for Humanity’s Survival

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  It is 6:13 am and in the Bella Conference Center I am listening to the chair of the AOSIS (Association of Small Island States) trying to fight off uncontrollable tears. I am almost certain that the Group of 77 (a behemoth of 130 plus developing country states) is coming to [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 1:13am EST
  by Kartikeya

• Liveblog: Copenhagen End Game

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  4.12am A group of us are following the final plenary inside the Bella Centre in Copenhagen. The atmosphere has erupted in the last hour, and we’re going to give a play-by-play as things develop from here. For detailed updates as it happens, follow some of our writers on Twitter: Ben Powless [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by Matthew Carroll

• LIVEBLOG: Flash Rally to Reject ‘Climate Sham[e]‘ Outside Bella Center Now

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  Immediately after hearing the announcement of what was sold as ‘the deal’ in Copenhagen on Friday night, over 150 people, many who had been locked out of the COP15 summit, organized a flash rally at the Bella Center to oppose efforts by a small group of countries to subvert UN [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  by joshlynch

• Not Over Yet: Vigil at Bella Center Now, Join the Action

  Here’s just a quick update because I’m running out the door to head to a vigil at the Bella center. Emails and texts are flying around Copenhagen to drive people out to the Bella Center where the UN climate talks have been taking place. Obama’s statement tonight basically sold out [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Copenhagen and the end of naïveté

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  The most striking thing to me – sitting on the left side of the pond from Copenhagen – is that with some exceptions it appears that the veil of legitimacy of the climate policy making process of the US-dominated UNFCCC  (which climate justice activists have criticized for year) is finally falling away…which [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  by Cascadia Brian

• Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award in DC

  The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “Angry Mermaid Awards“. We at the DC Climate Action [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:14pm EST
  by sam1daly

• Video from Last Night’s “Vigil for Survival” In Copenhagen

  Take a look at this video from the beautiful “vigil for survival” in Copenhagen last night, inspired by the thousands of vigils that this movement hosted around the world last weekend: Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Climate Sham[e] – No Ambition Puts Climate Talks on Ice

  On what was scheduled to be the last day of the Copenhagen climate talks, a diverse crowd of global civil society locked out of the negotiations sent a clear message of “Climate Shame” to Obama, Merkel, Hu, Harper, and other leaders who are most responsible for the current stalling of [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  by joshlynch

• Climate Sham[e], Climate Hope: Citizens Prepare for Major Aerial in Copenhagen

  It’s only 4:00 pm in Copenhagen, but the sun has already set and the cold night has set in. The general gloom could be a reflection of the faces of many activists here in Copenhagen, many of them huddled in the Oksnehallen warehouse in downtown Copenhagen, exiled from the Bella Center [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 10:47am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Obama’s Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech

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  There was a time, say 12 months ago, when each speech by Obama was anticipated with a mix of excitement and hope. Despite myself, I felt that same mix of giddy expectation as he took the stage this morning at the Bella Center where the UN Climate Talks continue to [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:19am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Tomorrow is Today

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  On Tuesday morning I posted this note on Facebook: “If you could see what is happening here in Copenhagen you would be outraged. After two decades of negotiating climate change policy to death, wealthy countries are blocking a real deal with weak targets and loopholes. The next 72 hours I will [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 3:40am EST
  by joshlynch

• Life Goes on Outside the Bella Center

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  By Valida Prentice, who offers us her reflections from the nine-hour sit-in and climate justice fast Cross-posted from TheClimateers I spent months helping prepare policy briefs on adaptation, plan how the SustainUS communications team would interface with policy and actions, and set up a framework for the international youth communications and media [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:20pm EST
  by Louise Yeung

• Call for Action from the Solomon Islands

  Cross-posted from Project Survival Media I know this is technically old-hat, a whole week old, or a dinosaur in blogging-years, but this is a really wonderful video that captures a powerful moment, and I wanted to be sure to share this with all the youth who read IGHIH. On Monday 7th December [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:09pm EST
  by Madeline Kovacs

• Decisions About Youth’s Future being made Without Us.

  By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips, cross-posted from Project Survival Media This is an empty room. Why is it empty, and why does it matter? Well, between the coat check and any of the actual meeting rooms in the Bella Center where all the COP15 negotiations are taking place, you have to walk [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  by Madeline Kovacs

• A Video about Survival: Rising Tide

  I am proud to announce the arrival of the mini-documentary, Rising Tides: Sunderbands, India. This documentary is the work of the India, Asia team of Project Survival Media. I asked team leader Ekta Kothari to tell me about her experience making the film, and she did! “The story was incredibly powerful [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  by Madeline Kovacs

• The US “Back in its Rightful Position”? Um, Not Quite

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  Don’t get me wrong.  Most of the time, I love Washington Governor Christine Gregoire.  She’s one of the most environmentally progressive governors in the US, and has done great things to help jumpstart the clean energy economy in the Northwest.  I also think it’s great that she’s showing her level [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 3:35pm EST
  by nickengelfried

• Boston Climate Activists Hang 30-Foot Banner Off Harvard Bridge During U.N. Climate Conference

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  More pictures available at www.risingtidenorthamerica.org Boston, MA – Activists with climate group Rising Tide hung a 30-foot banner reading, “System Change, Not Climate Change” on the Harvard Bridge (Massachusetts Ave.) spanning Boston and Cambridge this afternoon. The action comes in the final days of the United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen, [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 3:02pm EST
  by marleymiles

• The Twilight of Copenhagen

  [cross-posted from Project Survival Media] I just came back from an earth-shaking vigil tonight in Copenhagen. This is the twilight of my time here– with only one day left in the conference, nothing seemed to come of it. It has seemed to fail. Many of us organizers have also started to [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  by amydewan

• Solidarity Sit-ins Spread! Resources for your own event

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  Last night 19 people sat down in the conference center were the UN negotiations were held and began reading the names of over 11 million people who have joined the call for a fair, ambitious and legally binding deal. I stayed with them in support for what turned out to [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by katmceachern

• The Real Climategate: Leaked UN Report on Emissions shows over 3 degrees C, 550 ppm

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  Earlier this afternoon, leaked documents from the UN climate Secretariat emerged that demonstrate conclusively what we’ve been saying for months: the proposals now on the board would increase the planet’s temperature more than three degrees, and drive the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere above 550 ppm. Download the document here. [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Climate Talks Held Hostage!

  Greenpeace Rescue Unit on Scene! December 17, 2009 Washington, D.C., United States — Greenpeace activists and emergency vehicles descend on the Chamber of Commerce in response to a climate emergency. This global warming crime scene was quickly taped off by Greenpeace activists as a hostage negotiator attempted to make contact with [...][...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  by John Deans

• Live Blog: Sit-In at the US State Department, Reading names of 11 Million Petition Signers

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  The sit-in has concluded.  The protesters were ‘detained’ and removed from the hall, and made to sit in a small holding room.  Then they were given the option to leave, or stay and get arrested.  Since no press was on hand, and no one was there to witness the arrests, [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:49am EST
  by Morgan

• What would success in Copenhagen look like?

  Bill McKibben, Jessy Tolkan, George Monbiot, Daryl Hannah, and many other amazing leaders speak from a dream podium in Copenhagen. Click HERE for the official GOOD COP15 website! Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 10:31am EST
  by ash_anderson

• Australia is Trying to Buy off Small Islands at Copenhagen Climate Talks

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  Pressure is clearly building on poor countries to back down from strong climate targets here in Copenhagen. At a powerful press conference this morning, the Prime Minister of Tuvalu accused Australia of setting up a private meeting with a number of small island states and trying to bribe them into [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:03am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Youth Climate Movement sit-ins Spread Like Wildfire Across Globe

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  Following the heroic sit-in by international youth delegates in Copenhagen on Wednesday, waves of similar actions organized in the following days put immediate pressure on world leaders to enact a real, fair and binding climate deal. I’d like to see that story written tomorrow and Friday by mainstream media.  As Andrew [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:31am EST
  by Morgan

• Live from Copenhagen

  Check out the live stream of activists in Copenhagen and engage in the conversation. http://powershift09.org/live Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:31pm EST
  by dannymarx

• The hope in which we hope to create, hopefully

  by Jesse Boudart, Cascade Climate Network Week 1 is finished.  Negotiations moved forward, even though they still seem at a standstill.  The G77 seem adamant of the mitigation numbers, 1.5 C and 350 ppm.   I don’t blame them for their demands because of the implication of 2 C could mean certain [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:15pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Organize Solidarity Sit-Ins Now

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  Organize a Solidarity Sit in For Climate Justice. Now is the time. Demands for Climate Justice have erupted with an exciting energy on every stage of COP15 – thousands of marchers approached the Bella Center, hundreds of delegates walked in an attempt to join the People’s Assembly, and as  I write [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  by andrewmunn

• Live Blog: Seventh Hour Of Peaceful Sit-In At The UN Conference Centre

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  We just began our seventh hour here in the Bella Centre, sitting-in until world leaders achieve a fair, ambituous, and binding treaty. The past few hours have been incredibly positive as party members, NGO members, and UN observers have come by to meet us and ensure our wellbeing by offering [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:11pm EST
  by maryam adrangi

• Copenhagen Crisis: Take Action Now

  Here is what you need to know: Things have gone a little crazy in Copenhagen. Civil society has been severely restricted from entering the conference venue, and have effectively been banned on Friday, which is the final day of high level negotiations. Friends of the Earth, which in my opinion remains the “big [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by erinamelia

• LIVE BLOG: Youth activists sit-in, refuse to leave until negotiatiors listen to 11 mil voices calling for a fair and ambitious deal

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  1:54 More to come – don’t think that this is the end of us.  Over 150 people watching live stream.  Thousands of people know what’s going on. Thanks everyone for joining us, please continue to leave comments below.  Gotta run before I get swept away! 1:51 Security ready to crack down. [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:28am EST
  by Whit Jones

• Inside Bella: Where are we now?

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  Written by Ellie Johnston, a SustainUS youth delegate and senior at the University of North Carolina Asheville I have almost been in Copenhagen for two weeks now and have been watching from the inside and outside of the Bella Center as the UN Climate Change Negotiations proceed. At this point the [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:20am EST
  by Louise Yeung

• Updates from Copenhagen

  By Dominic Frongillo, a SustainUS youth delegate in Copenhagen and Town Councilman from Caroline, NY Dear friends, family, and colleagues, Yesterday began the highly-anticipated second week in Copenhagen, when the outcome of the UN climate negotiations will be decided. Thousands of newly-arriving government delegates and observers are pouring into the full conference center, [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:17am EST
  by Louise Yeung

• December 12, Copenhagen: The Real Headline

  Video by Ekta Kothari. Cross-posted from Project Survival Media. Footage of the arch was also posted on The Huffington Post. Sometimes it’s hard to describe an experience. Sometimes words, film, or photos fail to capture the overwhelming feeling that we are witnessing something truly extraordinary. We say, “You just had to be there.” Enter [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:18am EST
  by Madeline Kovacs

• Copenhagen: Hundreds Arrested in Protest; Police Brutality; Pressure Builds Inside the Conference

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  These are shocking images of police brutality from outside the Bella Center where the UN climate talks seem to be fracturing just hours before over 100 heads of state are scheduled to arrive to debate a climate deal. It’s all the more striking to see the faces of some of [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:13am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Police Beat NGO Delegates Trying to Join Protest Outside COP-15

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  UPDATE: Danish speakers can read an article here about this protest in Politiken. Today, 100 COP-15 delegates – mostly from NGOs, but led by two members of the Bolivian government delegation, and with dozens of members of organizations from the Global South and Indigenous groups – marched out of the Copenhagen [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Adrian Wilson

• COP15 President Resigns: Danish Prime Minister Takes Over

  Connie Hedegaard just resigned as President of the UN climate talks here in Copenhagen. The Danish Prime Minister to take over. Did we predict this to happen? Not exactly, though the move is general procedure here at the United Nations. It seems that it is the number of Heads of State [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:51am EST
  by Zoë

• An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

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  OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA December 16, 2009 Dear Mr. President: Four years ago at the UN climate negotiations in Montreal, I was part of a delegation of hundreds of youth observers from across the country and thousands from across the globe. In a meeting we held with the lead U.S. negotiator [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:20am EST
  by megboyle

• Reclaim Power Action Begins inside Copenhagen Climate Talks

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  A crowd of youth, activists, indigenous peoples, and perhaps some delegates, burst in chants of “Climate Justice Now!” and “Reclaim Power!” in the middle of the Bella Center where the Copenhagen Climate Talks are being held. Instantly surrounded by cameras and media, the group began a march out of the [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:38am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Heavy Security Presence as Reclaim Power Begins

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  As Reclaim Power begins in Copenhagen, the UNFCCC and Danish police – acting in close coordination – are clamping down heavily on activists both inside and outside the Bella Center. On the outside, police have established an extremely strong security perimeter around the building, and have shut down the Bella Center [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:29am EST
  by Adrian Wilson

• Civil Society Constrained at COP15

  In 1992, the United Nations formally recognized civil society as valuable actors in environmental decision making. Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration states that “environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens.”  It is a surprise, then, that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat announced that [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  by jodafoe

• COP15 Week 2: Emotions running high!

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  Cross-posted from www.watthead.org. Guest Post by Lindsey Berger, FTN COP15 Delegation Team Leader “Ten billion dollars will neither buy food nor coffins.” -Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese chairman of the G77 It’s week two, and a certain level of intensity has coated the city joining the fog- this is what we’ve been preparing for. Last [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by markkimbrell

• Corruption: Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethiopia’s Zenawi to Betray Africa’s Future at Copenhagen Climate Talks

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  NGOs and civil society groupings are reacting with anger and disappointment to a joint appeal by France and “Ethiopia, representing Africa” for a so-called ‘Copenhagen Accord’ to result from the current COP15 negotiations being held in the Danish capital. The French / Ethiopian proposal appeared on the French Presidency’s website [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Protest 15 Years of Failed Climate Negotiations with Mass Non-Violent Civil Disobedience

  Civil Society Groups Inside and Outside The COP Process Issue Call to Unite in “Peoples’ Assembly” to Demand Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis www.climate-justice-action.org Copenhagen, Denmark – As broad frustration grows with rich country and corporate influence over the content and direction of the climate negotiations, two international networks of [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:37am EST
  by mattwilkerson

• “Climatrix” FT Ad Targets US, Japan, and Germany

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  Decked in black trench coats, skin-tight pants, and black shades, the Matrix protagonists arrived at COP15 today with a message for the US, Japan, and Germany – “Take the Green Pill”. The image spoof was featured in a full-page ad in the Financial Times today with the message: “Obama, Hatayama, [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  by joshlynch

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu Offers Hope

  Cross-Posted from the Huffington Post: As the Hopenhagen Ambassador, I’m supposed to be spreading and collecting messages of hope. But to be honest, it isn’t easy being hopeful right now. According to a recent post by Andy Revkin of the New York Times, the pledges that countries are making right now [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  by davidkroodsma

• How about some serious financing

  Today, the Washington Post broke news of an announcement by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that the United States was contributing $85 million to The Climate Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative. “The initiative — which includes $85 million from the United States and donations from industrialized nations such as Italy and [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:07pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• COP15: From the streets to the meeting room with Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing

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  Cross-posted from Watthead.org Guest Post by Garett Brennan, Executive Director- Focus the Nation The other morning, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) released their AOSIS Text. The first proposal in the negotiations so far that is actually responding to what the science is demanding: 1. Fair – securing at least $200 billion [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:50pm EST
  by markkimbrell

• Young Elected Officials Call for Obama to Secure Clean Energy Economy

  Young Americans in Copenhagen press for energy action now COPENHAGEN – On the first day of the critical week of United Nations climate negotiations, young elected officials in Copenhagen and in the United States called on President Obama and Congress to secure a strong agreement that will grow clean energy [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by Louise Yeung

• Breaking: The Fight for 350 (President Mohamed Nasheed leads push for Survival in Copenhagen)

  It looks like we’re coming closer to a showdown on 350ppm at the UN climate talks here in Copenhagen. We’re getting only bits and pieces of information here, but we wanted to share it with all of you as soon as possible and then do our best to keep you updated [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:05am EST
  by jamiehenn

• COP15 WEEK 1 RECAP: Survival is On the Table

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  Last night the Avaaz team had dinner together at a local restaurant. We went around the table and shot out highlights from week one of COP15. My highlight was Tuesday afternoon. Tuvalu, a tiny island nation already being forced to plan for the displacement of its population, had just changed [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 7:31pm EST
  by joshlynch

• Cash for Caulkers should use Energy Efficiency Loan Fund Model

  Back in September, I wrote about the the power of energy efficiency loan funds, and how they could be utilized by local and state governments to eliminate the barrier of upfront financing for energy efficiency improvements which often prevents them from happening. When my student group UMD for Clean Energy [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Photography of the Climate March in Copenhagen

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  Over 100,000 people converged in Copenhagen on Dec. 12, 2009 to march towards the Bella Center and demand a fair, ambitious, and binding treaty at the end of the Conference of Parties. This gallery is a selection of some of my best images from the day. Posted in Copenhagen 2009, Europe, [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  by rvanwaarden

• Crackdown in Copenhagen

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  UPDATE: You can help by signing this petition protesting Danish police violence against climate protestors. Over the past week, the Danish capital has welcomed delegates, corporate lobbyists, and representatives of mainstream, moderate NGOs with open arms; however, they’ve shown a somewhat uglier face towards activists advocating climate justice. Yesterday, a massive, peaceful [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:20pm EST
  by Adrian

• Tar Sands An Important Issue? Two Tar Sands Actions In First Week Of COP

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  The first week of negotiations in Copenhagen ended with a second tar sands focussed action. Indigenous and non-indigenous people from Canada and the US come together to remind everyone that the tar sands is not just a Canadian issue—it affects everyone and there is no room for the tar sands [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:36am EST
  by maryam adrangi

• Thousands of churches ring their bells 350 times for climate justice in Copenhagen

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  This December 11-13, tens of thousands of people of all faiths will join the “World Wants a Real Deal” weekend of action with 350.org and its partners at the World Council of Churches and the TckTckTck campaign. “Church bells are both a way to call people to worship, and in many [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:30am EST
  by jamiehenn

• System Change, Not Climate Change!

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  After being in Copenhagen for five days now, there are some thoughts running through my head that I’d like to express and share with y’all. This is going to be short, and probably not all that eloquent, but it will help me get some points across that I think are [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 8:58pm EST
  by aafrench

• The Whole World Gathers for the Largest Climate Rally in History

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  This is amazing. More than a hundred thousand demonstrators from around the world make a united stand for action in the climate negotiations going on in Copenhagen. More to come soon. Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 2:31pm EST
  by dannymarx

• COP15 Friday- Youth voices, US leadership, exhaustion and excitement

  Cross-posted from here http://www.watthead.org/ Guest post by Garett Brennan, Executive Director- Focus the Nation Hey folks, I wanted to share how things are going over here from our perspective at the COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen. On the day I arrived, I found it very reassuring that back at home, our country’s [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  by markkimbrell

• Indigenous Peoples at Copenhagen Climate Talks Deliver Peace Prize Message to Obama at US Embassy

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  Indigenous Peoples from across North America and their allies from around the world gathered at the US Embassy in Copenhagen today to deliver a message to President Obama as he traveled to Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. The delegation of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and First Nations Peoples is [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:26am EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• December 10: Young and Future Generations Day

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  News from SustainUS Delegate Valida Prentice. What more appropriate time to celebrate her birthday in Copenhagen than Young and Future Generations Day? Cross-posted from The Climateers, By Valida Prentice Time is flying here in Copenhagen.  The question is, are we flying in a private jet or gracefully soaring like an eagle?  Are [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  by Louise Yeung

• Christopher Monckton calls Youth Climate Activists “Hitler Youth” Again!

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  For a full 6 minutes, this guy calls youth climate activists at Copenhagen “Hitler Youth”.  Completely outrageous!  This guy needs to hire a publicist. Cross-posted from: The Dernogalizer Posted in Climate Science [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:21pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Youth and Indigenous people escalate protests inside the UN

  Echoing the words of Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed (We will not die quietly!) and the African negotiator Ambassador Lumumba, (No to climate colonialism!) hundreds of youth created a loud and energetic “climate storm” today inside the Copenhagen climate talks at the UN. It was the largest demonstration at COP15 yet [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:22pm EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• Accept it in Oslo, Earn it in Copenhagen

  Today is “Young and Future Generations Day” here at the International Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, and I’m here with my wife Wahleah and our two-year-old daughter Tohaana. Along with thousands of other young people, we’re doing everything in our power to convince world leaders to commit to a fair, ambitious, [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:09pm EST
  by billyparish

• The Scientists Stike Back

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  There has been quite an assault on the climate science in the past few weeks. Far more so than ever before, which is saying something given the Climate Cover-Up that’s gone on for so long. First, e-mails were hacked from a British university, showing some cherry-picked conversations between climate scientists, [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:04pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Japanese Youth Go Green, Call For Japan To “Save Copenhagen”

  UPDATE — New video from our meeting with the Japanese delegation. Japan could shift the course of the climate talks with a strong finance proposal. It’s a huge part of Copenhagen, the financing of the $200 billion per year fund for climate change adaptation and mitigation. One of the countries that [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Nick Magel

• GRITtv: Jessy Tolkan: Youth Can’t Wait

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:10am EST
  by dannymarx

• Win It In Oslo, Earn It In Copenhagen.

  I just walked past a television set in the middle of Copenhagen’s Bella Center, where the UN climate negotiations are taking place. There was a small crowd gathered around the television screen watching president Obama hold a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The two were speaking, of [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:32am EST
  by joshlynch

• Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis on climate change in Bella Centre

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  This is not the first blog of China Youth COP15 team but it is the first one that we are sending to ItsGettingHotInHere to share with you. We are very excited to share with you a major event of ours today at the Bella Centre and we hope you will [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:04pm EST
  by chinayouthcop15

• Stop Tarring Our Image, Our Future, Our Climate, and Our Communities

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  Canada’s former image of being an amiable and lovable nation is being tarred at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15), where Canadian negotiaters are constantly blocking progress towards an international climate deal. At the UNFCC today, Canadian youth converged in the plenary hall, holding a banner saying: Stop Tarring [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:48pm EST
  by maryam adrangi

• Climate Catastrophe on the National Mall

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  Sprinting across the puddle laden lawn of the National Mall? Easier said than done, especially when one is carrying eight 5′ artificial bodies sporting a very important message: CO2 Kills. The normally picturesque reflecting pool on the National Mall was witness to a grisly scene today, as we floated fake corpses [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  by skolmk

• Americans For Prosperity call youth activists “Eco-hypocrites” and “Hitler Youth”, post VIDEO of their own

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  A NOTE TO AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY (from the 'eco-activists') 1. We didn't come to Copenhagen JUST to attack you, AFP. Don't be so full of yourselves. 2. Great job admitting carbon pollution is bad (i.e. 'flying across the Atlantic')... Seems like you're beginning to see the light. ' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:02pm EST
  by Rachel Barge

• US Youth Crash Climate Denier Live Webcast in Copenhagen

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  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 [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• COP-15: Climate Justice for the Poor, or Backroom Deals by the Rich?

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  Written by Jennifer Krill and Adrian Wilson. Whispers in the hallways at the COP-15 Copenhagen climate negotiations emerged as a full blown controversy yesterday, when the UK Guardian published leaked text that was written by a secret group of negotiators, the so-called ‘Circle of Commitment’.  The U.S., UK, Denmark and other rich [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  by Adrian

• Good Morning, US Negotiators

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  This morning, before the start of the first plenary session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation at COP15, I decided to leave the roped-off seating area for observing parties of the negotiations and stroll down the rows of labeled seats for negotiating parties. After a few minutes of searching, I [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:28am EST
  by ethanbuckner

• “Listen to the Islands”

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  Moments ago in Copenhagen’s COP15 meetings, 100’s of people lined the entry way to the main plenary to stand with Tuvalu and all small island nations or AOSIS. Earlier today, Tuvalu showed true leadership at COP15, showing ambition by attempting to initiate an open conversation on how the world can [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:13am EST
  by Nick Magel

• From Copenhagen to Brussels: EU LEAD!

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  In the last three hours, over 100 people at the Bella Center in Copenhagen and more than 3,600 around Europe joined Avaaz to phone calls to European leaders urging them to be a deal maker. Angela Merkel of Germany, Lars Lokke Rasmussen of Denmark, and Gordon Brown of the UK [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:20am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Flash Dance: The Un-Official Chant of the Youth Climate Movement

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  In true It’s Getting Hot In Here fashion, the international youth performed a flash dance during the first day of the UN climate treaty negotiations. We made our presence felt outside the the first open plenary session of the conference. Over 100 youth gathered for the action and we were literally [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:19am EST
  by Jeremy Blanchard

• Memo to President Obama: Climate Change Policy Recommendations

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  (Cross posted from the Cascade Climate Network COP15 blog) As a final assignment for a climate course that I am in, I had the opportunity to write a memo to President Obama outlining what his climate goal should be and what policies/strategies he would use to reach those goals. Below is the [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:32pm EST
  by Jeremy Blanchard

• Video of SustainUS Youth at COP15 (featuring animatronic penguins)

  Ben and Rachel gettin’ down with animatronic penguins, and covering the Conference of Youth – where 700 youth leaders converged before COP15. Posted in Copenhagen 2009, Europe, Humor, International Affairs, United Nations, Video [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:45am EST
  by Rachel Barge

• Awesome COP15 Video by Australian Youth!

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  Meet some of the Global Youth Delegates to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, as they share their stories and their passion. Shot and edited by Mike Clay, Rohan Porteous and Sam Millar. [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:07am EST
  by Rachel Barge

• Rock on, Home Team

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  I woke up this morning wondering what I was doing in DC. Since the summer of 2008 when it turned out I wasn’t going to be able to go to COP14 in Poznan as planned, I had been saying I was going to Copenhagen. Three years on the Home Team [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:16pm EST
  by anjalih

• The Youth is Starting to Change

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  Cross posted from The Climateers As 27 of my fellow SustainUSers are in Copenhagen are attending plenary sessions and planning actions with international youth from around the world, I’m holding down the fort in Washington, DC by bridging the news from Denmark to actions at home. A friend of mine remarked today [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:35pm EST
  by lhyeung125

• Protest and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at Chevron; 31 Arrested

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  Protest and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at Chevron, California’s worst climate polluter, on first day of United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen San Ramon, CA – As Chevron employees arrived to work early this morning, they were met by nearly 100 people who gathered in protest of Chevron’s global destruction of [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  by Sparki

• Seizing the Moment in Copenhagen

  Copenhagen is already starting to look like a transformational political moment. Today was the first day of the COP15 climate talks. In the plenaries vulnerable nations spoke out forcefully about the need for global cooperation toward rapid greenhouse gas reductions. International youth joined Avaaz in staging two powerful actions inside [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:42pm EST
  by joshlynch

• Canada Is “Ambitious” Like Peanut Brittle Is Soft On The Teeth

  This post was co-written with Tria Donaldson of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the UNFCCC in Copenhagen. Today is the first day of the UN Climate Change Negotiations, and the Canadian Delegation starts it with the typical flair. No surprises coming from Canada, just the same ol’ COP-blocking. In today’s briefing meeting [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:21pm EST
  by maryam adrangi

• Hundreds Rally to Save Coal River Mountain Today

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  Robert Kennedy, Jr. calls for a stop to the blasting of Coal River Mountain and protection of nation’s clean energy resources, on first day of global climate talks in Copenhagen Today over 300 coalfield residents and their allies rallied to stop the blasting of Coal River Mountain and to transition [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:10pm EST
  by Sparki

• Copenhagen Day 1: Scandal! Bullying!

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  Cross Posted from Grist. Well it was opening day of the madness that is COP15: the meeting of the UNFCCC that is supposedly going to decide the fate of the entire world. And what better way to open it than with broad civil society outrage at the egregious lack of democracy [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:48pm EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• Join Us in Copenhagen

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  Hello dear movement friends, I have a very important ask of you, from one member of the climate family to another. Please read on. http://powershift09.org/rapidresponse I’m so excited and grateful to be here in Copenhagen for the International Climate Negotiations. These next two weeks are going to be jam-packed and intense. But it’s the [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:05pm EST
  by chenderson

• Mass “Die-In” Outside Plenary at Climate Talks

  More than 30 youth from Australia, Mexico, India, Sweden, the US, Germany, and around the world  staged a “die-in” today outside the main plenary at COP15 with the message – “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “Real Deal Saves Lives”. A real deal was in jeopardy today as speculation emerged [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by joshlynch

• Climate Justice Fast: One Small College’s Efforts

  Posted on behalf of Sasha Macko and the Williams College Climate Justice Fast team. I haven’t eaten for seven days.  To walk up stairs is like climbing Everest and I have almost forgotten what food tastes like. However, while this week has been a challenge to my daily routine, I woke [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:21am EST
  by Morgan

• This is About Survival

  This post is provided on behalf of Project Survival Media – a grassroots, student-run media project designed to highlight the true costs of fossil fuels in the lead up to Copenhagen.  On the eve of the Copenhagen climate talks, communities and individuals around the planet are thinking about survival.  In a world [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:25pm EST
  by nickengelfried