Posts Tagged ‘Poznań’

• Carbon cuts will only give us a 50/50 chance of saving the planet

  Photo credit: azrainman New research from the UK Met Office, one of the world’s leading providers of environmental and weather-related services, shows that the world’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions would only offer a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature …

• Uneven Development and Northern Imperialism in the making of Today’s Ecological Crisis

  What is equality and development? And what kind of influence has the environment on both of these relations? For me, environmentalism has always been about caring about the well-state and equality of everyone and everything. Al Gore said, during the …

• 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. …