Alternate Copenhagen Venues
With the Bella Center barred to all non-governmental agencies, those unable to enter the main COP15 venue are forced to spend time at other venues if they’re to continue with climate-related events in and around Copenhagen
Conference, Canada in Disarray as Second Week Begins
Southeast Asian news crew in the crowded COP15 hallway
As Week Two began at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, confusion reigned as numbers exploded, positions entrenched and pressure mounted.
US Announcement Good for Global Agreement
The biggest news out of Copenhagen over the past 24 hours did not originate in the Danish capital, but rather from Washington DC, where the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that Carbon Dioxide and the five other major greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human and environmental health. The annoncement makes the creation of a binding global agreement more likely, even if it doesn’t occur at this summit.
“Vous allez a Copenhague?”
It’s a quarter past one in the afternoon in Montmartre. I’m sitting in a café right outside Métro Pigalle after having spent the morning looking for a wifi connection.
Annette and I arrived at 6:30 Central European time with 14 hours to kill before our 20h30 flight to Copenhagen. By pure chance we’ve already shared a restaurant with the head of a major environmental group and a flight with the Canadian Defence Minister, so I’m already feeling the global importance of the Copenhagen conference.
Since we’re in Paris for the day, we decided to check our bags now rather than haul around weeks of clothing while we roam around Paris.
“Vous allez à Copenhague?” the woman at the Scandinavian Airlines desk asks us. “Are you going to Copenhagen? For the climate change conference?”
Five Reasons to Follow the Copenhagen Climate Talks
Starting next week, over 20,000 people will be meeting in Copenhagen to discuss how the world should tackle climate change.
Officially called the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the two week-long meeting will (hopefully) culminate with a global road map on how humanity will tackle global warming.
Here are five reasons why you should follow the talks in Copenhagen.