Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Brown’

• Gordon Brown calls climate change deniers “flat-earthers”

  Recently Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spoke out against climate change deniers labeling them as anti-science “flat-earthers” who are spreading outdated information: “Mr Brown last night insisted that the science on climate change in settled, and …

• World leaders apologizes for climate failure in Copenhagen ads

  Our world leaders haven’t yet apologized for their climate failure in Copenhagen so Greenpeace and the global tcktcktck campaign have done it for them in these advertisements at the Copenhagen airport: “I’m sorry,” the text of the ad reads. “We …

• The “Danish text” makes developing nations furious and Naomi Klein says the deal we really need is not even on the table

  Here are some of the biggest and most interesting news today related to the ongoing COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen: A draft text for a potential final agreement in Copenhagen was leaked today to the Guardian. The “Danish text” has …

• Gordon Brown warns that climate deal is in grave danger, urges world leaders to attend climate conference

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is now warning that the upcoming climate talks this December in Copenhagen, Denmark, are in “grave danger” of failing. The UN climate change conference, also known as Cop15, in Copenhagen …

• British verdict will strengthen the anti-coal and climate movement

  Last week the verdict came in the case against the six Greenpeace activists – Ben Stewart, Will Rose, Kevin Drake, Tim Hewke, Huw Williams and Emily Hall – who in October last year performed a protest against the Kingsnorth coal …

• Solar power from Africa could power all of Europe

  The French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this summer launched, with the support of EU, a new Mediterranean union with the aim to “tackle issues such as regional unrest, immigration to pollution.” The new international body will include 16 non-EU states …