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Durban: doom and gloom or the sunny uplands of a new dawn?

Posted by bens - 28 November 2011 at 4:30pm - 2 Comments
Activists raise a wind turbine on the beach in Durban
All rights reserved. Credit: Shayne Robinson / Greenpeace
Greenpeace and Tcktcktck volunteers raise a wind turbine on the beach at dawn in Durban

Well here we are again, several thousand people gathering in a conference centre to talk about climate change and, supposedly, work towards a deal to actually do something about it. There are good guys and bad guys: campaigners say a deal is possible while journalists sound pessimistic. We’ve been here before, right? Yes, but Durban really is important and maybe, just maybe, this time it’s a little bit different.

Article tagged as: climate talks, cop17, durban, green climate fund, kyoto, south africa, UN

Activists and pod captured by Danish navy, but this isn't over

Posted by bens - 2 June 2011 at 9:30am - 31 Comments
Danish navy arrest Greenpeace activists and capture the Arctic pod
All rights reserved. Credit: Steve Morgan / Greenpeace
Danish navy arrest Greenpeace activists and capture the Arctic pod

Climbers working with the Danish navy have just broken into our pod suspended from the Cairn Energy oil rig here in the Arctic seas off Greenland and arrested the two Greenpeace climbers inside.

Article tagged as: arctcic, cairn, climate, deepwater drilling, go beyond oil, iceberg alley, leiv eiriksson, oil drilling, pod

Arctic drilling: A sinister presence

Posted by bens - 26 May 2011 at 5:51pm - 7 Comments
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli
All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilling

I'm writing this from the lounge of the Esperanza, and as I look to my right out of a porthole I can see the coast of Greenland. It's 15 miles away but the mountains are so huge it feels like you could reach out and touch them. They are wholly white with snow, and just beyond them is one single huge block of ice as big as America – the Greenland ice-sheet.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, climate, climate change, esperanza, go beyond oil, oil drilling

Flying can seriously damage your health

Posted by bens - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

Climate Clinic

Part of the Climate Clinic blog

There's something unhealthy in the air up here in Manchester. As the Labour party conference rumbled on down the road, I sat in a fringe meeting today at the Climate Clinic where the chap from the British Airports Authority allowed the 'sincerity' to drip from his lips like dark honey.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, climate clinic

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Posted by bens - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

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