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Another Green World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phil Gasper keeps sending me useful things, much appreciated! This is on Copenhagen and the mounting calls for a Tobin Tax, they can save the banks but saving the planet is just too expensive for them, we need to be making some noise in the run up to what is likely to be a carbon circus that shovels more money into the open mouths of the bankers. "> http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49182...
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The Ambassador blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Denmark being the host for the Climate change summit in Copenhagen in December I have been asked to give a brief overview of progress and expectations for a new climate agreement. But before doing that I would like to stress one thing that has become more and more evident to me here in Jordan as we [...]
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Black Listed News (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the disastrous Copenhagen treaty in sight, selling the overpopulation story is obviously considered crucial for the agenda
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
A climate change deal at the end of the year could end up being two treaties because the Americans refuse to sign up to existing global agreements.
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Carson's Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can anything come of the Copenhagen talks on climate change, the successor to the expiring Kyoto Conference? No, says Time, not when the world’s only superpower is not taking a leadership role. The magazine compares these talks to the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round of negotiations to increase global trade by reducing trade barriers between countries. [...]
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Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Copenhagen is about to become the centre of the world because it's where the world will meet to decide the collective path forward on climate change. Read some of the best Crikey writing on the issue here.
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Next Left (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Barack Obama could yet decide to attend the Copenhagen climate summit, Jennifer Palmieri of the Center for American Progress told the Fabian Change We Need conference in London. The Center for American Progress is an independent progressive think-tank, which is seen as probably the most influential with the Obama administration. Asked from the audience whether Obama should attend, Palmieri was sympathetic...
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BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Most of those concerned with climate have had their eyes on Barcelona this week, where delegates from 192 countries plus hundreds of observers, campaigners, lobbyists - and journalists - convened for the final session of preparatory talks before the UN climate summit in Copenhagen . As I've reported , there's been a deal of tension between rich and poor - with the developing world accusing the developed...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070,00.html'iid=tsmodule even 2010 seems like an optimistic deadline for global agreement.
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110702651.html According to some, the letdown can be explained in three words: the U.S. Senate
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6709209.html Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives scary precision to the word "immediate." By his reckoning, humanity...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/science/18256-dark-clouds-gathering-over-copenhagen.html A tax of 0.05 percent on financial transactions could produce $700 billion a year, Oxfam estimates. This would be enough to pay for climate-change mitigation and adaptation actions, and a good deal of development work besides.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged the international community to reach an ambitious agreement at the Copenhagen climate summit next month. "We should not waste such a unique chance to open a way to low fossil fuel wealth for all," the UN chief said in an article in the Swedish daily, Svenska Dagbladet. "Climate change affects all the other challenges we are facing: the...
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Josep Puigmarti | 29/03/2008
The relentless artistic activity to which Josep Puigmarti is delivered, leads him to work on his relentless quest for beauty through his creations, either in his facet as a painter or sculptor. We are talking about a genius in his purest form, with a unique view of the world around him that he reflects in his works. As a painter, his "Singular Figurations", "Alien fashion" and his new lines "Freedom"...
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