By robertvanwaarden on January 16, 2010
2009 will be defined as the year that the climate movement exploded. Millions of people around the world got behind the call for a strong deal in Copenhagen. Although the final result was a failure, the activists pictured in these images know that they are Not Done Yet! These 20 images are from the year [...]
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By robertvanwaarden on December 22, 2009
Gallery of the ‘Best of’ images from COP 15 in Copenhagen. Images ©Robert vanWaarden
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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 [...]
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By MahfamMalek on December 18, 2009
I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark right now for this. It’s the final day of negotiations, and I don’t think any of us knew what to expect exactly. I know that we certainly didn’t expect that our leaders would magically & suddenly grow a conscience and throw traditional political deal-making protocol to the wind in favor of [...]
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By EmilyDavila on December 18, 2009
Making the complexity of climate change something people can relate to is no easy task. But this month in Copenhagen, ‘green culture’ is everywhere you look. Subways walls are plastered with signs urging negotiators to ‘seal the deal’, and every museum and city plaza has a special exhibit about climate change. You can learn a [...]
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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 [...]
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)
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By AmyDewan on December 17, 2009
I just came back from an earth-shaking vigil tonight in Copenhagen. This is the twilight of my time here– with only one day left in the conference, nothing seemed to come of it. It has seemed to fail. Many of us organizers have also started to lose hope that any fair and binding agreement will [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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