Everest 2009: Eco Everest Mt Everest expedition 2009 Update

As in the past, Dawa Steven will be setting up his Everest Base Camp Bakery which will also be a Climate Change Information Centre. ICIMOD and the World Wildlife Fund are participating in providing information.

Climate talks fizzle out | watoday.com.au

THE latest round of international climate change negotiations has ended in a familiar stalemate, with the wealthiest nations refusing to meet demands to introduce tougher greenhouse targets.

Despite high expectations, the first United Nations climate meeting attended by the Obama Administration fizzled out without a clear plan for reaching a post-Kyoto climate deal, due to be signed in December in Copenhagen.

Flashback to June '08 » Sometimes Less Is More

Barack Obama: “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”