Monday, November 16, 2009

A Climate [Fraud] Communicator’s Indian Journey - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Eric Roston, a former Time magazine journalist and author of “ The Carbon Age,” spent three weeks roaming India at the invitation of the United States State Department to explore and talk about north-south differences in talking about climate change. (He told me that his talks and interactions were not in any way shaped by government officials.) The journey wrapped up at a conference organized by the International Federation of Environmental Journalists.
Binding climate treaty may slip far in to 2010 - Forbes.com
Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said he favoured at most a six-month delay for a legally binding deal -- until a meeting in Bonn in mid-2010. That would give time for the U.S. Senate to pass carbon-capping laws, he said.

"It's like metal, you've got to beat it when it's hot," he told Reuters at two days of talks involving 40 environment ministers. They are trying to end rich-poor splits blocking even a political deal for sharing out greenhouse gas curbs.
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Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard also said the December summit should end with a clear deadline.

"Maybe a realistic deadline would be Mexico but it depends on how far parties go on crunch issues," she told reporters. Ministerial talks are scheduled for Mexico in December 2010.
The Associated Press: New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty
"We either get it right and all of humanity comes out on the other side with a new world," Naidoo told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview before he took the Greenpeace helm. "Or we get it wrong and all the world is going to sink."
But he's not even a climatologist! | Kumi Naidoo | Climate: A question of justice
This week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Here, he explains why he is making the jump to a mainstream environmental organisation
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The other route is one that truly engages with the radical changes the world needs, and where governments, businesses and civil society all work together to make the far-reaching decisions that are required to ensure that we keep the planet safe for future generations.

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