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 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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By robertvanwaarden on December 13, 2009
Over 100,000 people converged in Copenhagen on Dec. 12, 2009 to march towards the Bella Center and demand a fair, ambitious, and binding treaty at the end of the Conference of Parties. This gallery is a selection of some of my best photography from the day.
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By project survival netherlands on December 9, 2009
We are students of the University of Utrecht and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. Last year, more than five hundred young people, including us, attended the UN Climate talks last year in Poznan. Daily movies about the conference were made and Dutch youths came in contact with the delegation of the Democratic Republic [...]
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