Archive for the ‘Poland 2008’ Category

• Gore: We cannot negotiate with the facts, the truth and the consequences

  During the embarrassing UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland, Al Gore held a speech where he said that the old and now “inadequate” climate change targets of 450 ppm (parts per million of CO2) had been made obsolete by …

• George Monbiot: The new European climate deal is carbon colonialism

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum George Monbiot writes today on the Guardian that the new EU emissions agreement is a disaster and calls it carbon colonialism. So much for the Europeans leading the way on climate change. Even as our …

• Embarrassment: EU leaders fail to agree on a strong climate deal

  Photo credit: rockcohen Leaders from the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a new watered-down climate deal to tackle global warming. The actual emissions cuts could amount to as little as 4% by 2020. Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …

• Watch: George Monbiot meets Yvo de Boer

  George Monbiot talks with Yvo de Boer, the current Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in the first of a series of interviews from the Guardian. In the video you can, for example, see Yvo …

• Germany, Poland and Italy blocks strong European leadership on climate

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum Avaaz, an independent and not-for-profit global campaigning organization, says that European leadership on climate is “essential to secure us all a global deal” in the UN climate conference in Poznań, Poland. Unfortunately have Germany, Poland …

• Poznań press briefings for the first week

  So far the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland, hasn’t really been that promising. But hopefully things turn out a bit better by the end of the conference. At least 49 countries now support a 350 ppm climate target. …

• 49 countries support a 350 ppm climate target in Poznań

  I just got this email and video from 350, the global grassroots climate movement: It’s 3 in the morning in Poland and I need your help with an experiment. Can you take 2 minutes watch an animation and help take …

• The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań

  The UN climate conference in Poznań, Poland, has started. The conference will be held on 1st – 12th of December. Thousands of participants from around the world will discuss and negotiate on an “ambitious and effective” international climate change agreement. …

• Obama promises actions on climate change, not going to attend UN climate conference

  During a climate summit in California today Barack Obama said, in a taped video, that his “presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change”. Obama spoke about his support for a cap-and-trade system and that he …

• Invite Obama to Poland for the U.N. Climate Meetings

  The global grassroots climate movement, 350, asks for your help to invite President-elect Barack Obama to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this December. So far over 48,000 “invitations” have been sent. Sign the invitation, click here!