UN chief urges leaders to 'get moving' on climate change [scam] | Euronews 24

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday negotiations have stalled over a climate change deal, and urged world leaders to get moving, ahead of a crucial meeting on the issue.

2007: Floods of tears as climate change 'hard man' breaks down at summit | Mail Online

He is known as the "hard man" of climate-change negotiation.

But after 12 exhausting days of trying to reach a worldwide agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it was suddenly all too much for Yvo de Boer.

As the 200-nation Bali conference wrangled over a minor procedural matter, the Dutch diplomat in charge of the talks burst into tears and had to be led away by colleagues.

Climate goals must be achievable: U.S. official | Green Business | Reuters

Chu said the outcome of the Copenhagen talks must not be so weak that they are a waste of time but added they should not be seen as the last chance to act on climate change.

"Do I say let us wait for (climate change) to be overwhelming? No. You have to bring more people along, so don't tee it up as now or never," he told reporters.

Bill Henderson: Gordon Campbell could send climate change signal by cancelling Olympics | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

Campbell could send such a signal now, at this singularly crucial time in the run-up to Copenhagen. Premier Campbell, the climate-change leader, could move the world over that Rubicon of political and economic business as usual by grabbing the world’s attention in canceling the Olympics. This $2 billion to $5 billion (depending on your accounting), monthlong party is a relatively easy sacrifice, but it would be a tectonic shift in attitude to climate change. A real deal at Copenhagen just might become possible—a global deal no longer constrained by what is possible within business as usual.