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Correspondent Terri Hansen reports from Copenhagen:
December 24, 2009
Wins, losses. What’s next for the indigenous peoples facing climate disruption?
Indigenous peoples face big climate problems but had little say at the Copenhagen climate talks, something that Patricia Cochran, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council said, “epitomizes climate injustice.”
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, organized by Tebtebba: Indigenous Peoples’ International [...]

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“As I listened to Denmark’s minister of economic and business affairs describe how her country used higher energy taxes to stimulate innovation in green power and then recycled the tax revenues back to Danish industry and consumers to make it easier for them to make and buy the new clean technologies, it all sounded so, [...]

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From Correspondent Christine Heinrichs:
“COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 16, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today joined representatives from 20 other countries across the globe to announce the formation of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, an international research collaborative to combat climate change. Vilsack announced the Partnership at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, [...]

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Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan is touting Gainesville’s environmental credentials as part of the Green Jobs for Florida delegation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark.
People from around the world are hearing about Gainesville’s solar feed-in tariff, energy efficiency programs and planned biomass power plant.
via Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan says local environmentally friendly programs impress Copenhagen [...]

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“Ladies and gentlemen, there is no time to waste. America has made our choice. We have charted our course. We have made our commitments. We will do what we say. Now I believe it’s the time for the nations and peoples of the world to come together behind a common purpose.
We are ready to get [...]

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“The UK environment secretary said that acidification provided a “powerful incentive” to cut carbon emissions.
Ocean chemistry is changing because water absorbs extra CO2 from the air.
“It affects marine life, it affects coral, and that in turn could affect the amount of fish in the sea – and a billion people in the world depend on [...]

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Thanks to Osha davidson for this terrific report from The Phoenix Sun:
“And if we take serious action to combat climate change, we won’t just be passing on a cleaner, healthier planet to our children. We’ll also be laying a foundation for decades of sustainable global prosperity.
Because the development of the clean energy and energy efficiency [...]

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“EL ALTO, Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She began daily pilgrimages to better-off neighborhoods, hoping to find water there.
The glaciers that have long provided water and electricity to this part of Bolivia [...]

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Gore and Danish ice scientist Dorthe Dahl Jensen clicked through two slide shows for a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds in a side event at the Bella Center conference site.
…what’s happening to Greenland’s titanic ice sheet “has really surprised us,” said Jensen of the University of Copenhagen.
She cited one huge glacier in west Greenland, at Jakobshavn, [...]

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Andrew C. Revkin, one of the most influential and respected reporters on the environment, will take a buyout from The New York Times as part of the paper’s current round of budget cuts. His departure, after nearly fifteen years at the Times, is sure to leave a big hole in the publication’s coverage of climate [...]

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Thanks to Correspondent Ed Brown for passing this along:
“The past 10 years have been the warmest decade on record and this year has been one of the five hottest, scientists revealed today as negotiators attempt to make progress on a new international deal to combat climate change.”
via Last decade ‘the warmest on record’ – Climate [...]

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From our correspondent Terri Hansen in Copenhagen:

“The vision of Klimaforum09, ’A Peoples Declaration’ that expresses the hopes, ideas, solutions and visions of citizens groups and social movements from all corners of the planet is completed and ready to sign on.”
via Klimaforum09 Peoples Declaration finalized, open to signatures until Dec. 13 | Mother Earth Journal.

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Copenhagen: The Center for American Progress
Myth # 3: It’s impossible for the world to meet the IPCC’s targets for stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent a dangerous rise in temperature.
Reality: We are 65 percent of the way there already.
Read this straightforward clarification of what we could achieve in Copenhagen via Myth vs. Reality on the [...]

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Thanks to Nicole Sands for passing this our way:
Copenhagen (Greenpeace.com) — “…the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) released a proposal for a two-protocol, legally binding outcome for the Copenhagen climate summit.
…the AOSIS proposal would essentially amend the Kyoto Protocol to extend it until 2017 (it currently is set to expire in 2012) and set [...]

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Thanks to Ed Brown for passing this article along to us:
…Moving by increments: it frustrates the hell out of many of us, and sometimes it’s truly disastrous….When it comes to global warming, however, this is precisely why we’re headed off a cliff…
It’s like nothing we’ve ever faced before — and we’re facing it as [...]

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As long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points—points which scientists have repeatedly warned would, if crossed, threaten to make it impossible [...]

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Thanks to Barb Drake in Peru for sharing this compelling news piece that she helped to produce for MSNBC…

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Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m feeling optimistic about the climate talks starting in Copenhagen on Monday.
…climate change legislation would probably mean more investment over all. And more investment spending is exactly what the economy needs.
So let’s hope my optimism about Copenhagen is justified. A deal there would save the planet at a price we can [...]

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This is an absolutely stunning piece of collaborative journalism. Let is set the pace for a sustainable future – worldwide.

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change [...]

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