By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 22, 2009
by Sara Engström
Since I live just an hour’s train journey away from Copenhagen, I decided to commute between Lund (my hometown) and the COP15 conference. The morning trains were full of people with UNFCCC badges of all colours hanging around their necks – there were delegates, press people, IGOs and NGOs.
One day last week I [...]
Posted in COP15, Stories | Tagged Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen, north, south
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
[Cross-posted from dirtblog]
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed speaking to a crowd in Copenhagen this week
I’ve been sitting all day in an amazing media hub (and bar) that tcktcktck has set up here called the Fresh Air Centre, watching journalists and bloggers and UN spokespeople come in and out. I’ve been editing stories for Project Survival Media [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, COP15, Stories, youth media | Tagged 350, Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen, Klima Forum, Maldives, President Nasheed
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
A slideshow from tonight’s vigil in Copenhagen, urging world leaders to rise to the historic occasion and sign a real deal for climate justice.
(Photo credit: Kris Krug)
Posted in COP15, Stories | Tagged Climate Change, conference, COP15, Copenhagen, vigil
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
by David G Matyas
“I think it might be illegal to have a climate change presentation without a drowning polar bear.” It was day two of the Development and Climate Change side event and behind the young academic from the University of Hawaii, a giant image of a polar bear floating on a tiny chunk of [...]
Posted in Antarctica & Arctic, COP15, Stories | Tagged arctic, Climate Change, conference, COP15, Copenhagen, polar bears
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
by David G Matyas
Two metro stops from the official COP15 conference, away from the debates over degrees and parts per million, is a side event with a humbler objective. Far from discussions of what an “acceptable” level of warming means on paper, participants in this basement studio at the Copenhagen Koncerthuse are trying to manage [...]
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By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
by Pratik Mandrekar
Developing countries have a number of key issues to deal with in every election, encompassing the basic amenities like drinking water, electricity, public transport, employment opportunities, sanitation and garbage disposal. Frequent protests against industrial setups like the case of the Tata Nano (the world’s cheapest car) in Singur, West Bengal or the case [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Stories
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
This is an empty room. Why is it empty, and why does it matter? Well, between the coat check and any of the actual meeting rooms in the Bella Center where all the COP15 negotiations are taking place, you have to walk through this arcade. It’s where NGOs and other civil society organizations set up [...]
Posted in COP15, Stories | Tagged civil society, climate negotiations, conference, COP15, Copenhagen, participation
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 17, 2009
by Sarabjeet Singh
Yesterday was a lucky day for me at the Bella Center. I met “Push,” or Pushpanath Krishnamurthy, who has walked all the way from his home at Oxford in the UK to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, to show his solidarity and support to the struggle against climate change. I was fortunate [...]
Posted in COP15, Europe, Stories | Tagged Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen
By Chris Chang-Yen Phillips on December 16, 2009
Tensions were rising inside and outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen today, with a demonstration and sit-in to protest the exclusion of developing countries and civil society from COP15 climate negotiations. Demonstrators marched on the conference center, where high-level talks are now beginning, demanding “no decisions about us without us.” They were planning to meet [...]
Posted in COP15, Stories | Tagged Climate Change, climate march, conference, COP15, Copenhagen
