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Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall in 2009 - Past Decade Still Sees Rapid Emissions Growth |
by Amy Heinzerling -- July 20, 2010 -- In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly 9 percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down from a high of 8.5 billion tons of carbon in 2008 to 8.4 billion tons in 2009. (Full Article)
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World People's Summit Calls for a Climate Justice Tribunal |
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by Claudia Lopez -- April 23, 2010 -- The World's People's Conference in Bolivia attracted over 30,000 participants and resulted in proposals that emphasized needs for a world referendum on climate change, a climate justice tribunal, and the protection of the rights of Mother Earth. Bolivian President Evo Morales called for a global referendum on climate change as a way to mobilize toward an international climate justice tribunal. (Full Article) |
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A New Climate Movement in Bolivia |
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by Naomi Klein -- April 21, 2010 -- With the Cochabamba summit, Bolivia is inviting the world to participate in drafting a joint climate agenda ahead of the next UN climate gathering, in Cancún. In the words of Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solón, "The only thing that can save mankind from a tragedy is the exercise of global democracy." (Full Article) |
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Bolivia Climate Change Talks to Give Poor a Voice |
by Andres Schipani and John Vidal -- April 18, 2010 --The main goal of the Conference is to present draft proposals to the UN climate meeting due to be held in Mexico later this year. Morales will also use the meeting to announce what could be the world's largest referendum, with up to 2 billion people being asked to vote on ways out of the climate crisis. Bolivia wants to create a UN charter of rights and to draft an action plan to set up an international climate justice tribunal. (Full Article)
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Lovelock Thinks Humans are too Stupid to Prevent Climate Change |
by Leo Hickman -- March 29, 2010 -- "The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful" Lovelock says. He thinks only a catastrophic event would now persuade humanity to take the threat of climate change seriously enough. "Another Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report won't be enough. We'll just argue over it like now." (Full Article)
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Europe's Post-Copenhagen View of Obama |
by Steven Hill -- Jan. 13, 2010 -- During the Copenhagen summit, the American media portrayed President Obama as a global dealmaker, shuttling from leader to leader trying to broker various compromises. What Mr. Obama was really doing was a lot of fence-mending, because the United States was seen as the principal obstacle — and Mr. Obama as the footdragger-in-chief — that prevented any ambitious agreements from being signed. (Full Article)
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Copenhagen Has Given Us the Chance to Face Climate Change with Honesty |
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by James Hansen -- Dec. 27, 2009 -- The difficulty is that fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, if the price does not include the damage they do to human health, the planet, and the future of our children. "Goals" for future emission reductions, whether "legally binding" or not, are utter nonsense as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy. (Full Article) |
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Ice Melting Faster Everywhere |
by Alexandra Giese -- Dec. 23, 2009 -- From the Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic interior and the mountainous peaks of Peru, Alaska, and Tibet, ice is melting at an alarming rate. The accelerating loss of ice sheets, sea ice, and glaciers is one of the most powerful and striking indicators of a warming climate. (Full Article)
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Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen |
by Amy Goofman -- Dec. 22, 2009 -- Obama reportedly heard of a meeting taking place between the heads of state of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, and burst into the room, leading the group to consensus on “The Copenhagen Accord.” One hundred ninety-three countries were represented at the summit, most of them by their head of state. Obama and his small group defied U.N. procedure, resulting in the nonbinding, take-it-or-leave-it document. (Full Article)
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Copenhagen Climate Deal: Spectacular Failure - or a Few Important Steps? |
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by Adam Vaughn and David Adam -- Dec. 22, 2009 -- We ask leading climate change experts for their assessment of the Copenhagen deal. (Full Article) |
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After the catastrophe in Copenhagen, It's Up to Us |
by Johann Hari -- Dec. 21, 2009 -- There was plenty of disgrace to go around in Copenhagen. The world's worst per capita warmer is the US, yet its President turned up offering a pathetic 4 per cent cut by 2020 – and once you factor in all the loopholes his negotiators demanded, he was actually demanding the right to a significant increase in US emissions. Similarly, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao vetoed the 80 per cent target by 2050, and refused to allow other countries to carry out basic checks to ensure China was carrying out the smaller cuts they were committed to. (Full Article)
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The Truths Copenhagen Ignored |
by Johann Hari -- Dec. 19, 2009 -- So that's it. The world's worst polluters gathered here in Copenhagen to announce they were going to carry on cooking, in defiance of all the scientific warnings. Those of us who watched this conference with open eyes aren't surprised. Every day, practical, intelligent solutions that would cut our emissions of warming gases have been offered by scientists, developing countries and protesters – and they have been systematically vetoed by the governments of North America and Europe. (Full Article)
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Preserve the Planet 