Press Briefing: Copenhagen Climate Talks 101

WASHINGTON – With one month to go before the Copenhagen summit, leading climate experts joined Janos Pasztor, the director of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, on a November 12 phone briefing to set the stage for the upcoming climate meeting. Speakers briefly discussed what happened during this year’s international talks, the current state of play in these negotiations and what is expected out of the United States in Copenhagen.

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For instance, the direct action coalition Climate Justice Action has called on activists to storm the conference centre on 16 December. Many will do this as part of the "bike bloc", riding together on an as yet to be revealed "irresistible new machine of resistance", made up of hundreds of old bicycles. The goal of the action is not to shut down the summit, Seattle-style, but to open it up, transforming it into "a space to talk about our agenda, an agenda from below, an agenda of climate justice, of real solutions against their false ones … This day will be ours".
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What will be the significance of Copenhagen? I put that question to John Jordan, whose prediction of what eventually happened in Seattle I quoted in my book No Logo. He replied: "If Seattle was the movement of movements' coming-out party then maybe Copenhagen will be a celebration of our coming of age."

He cautions, however, that growing up doesn't mean playing it safe, eschewing civil disobedience in favour of staid meetings. "I hope we have grown up to become much more disobedient," Jordan said, "because life on this world of ours may well be terminated because of too many acts of obedience."

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