Blogposts tagged 'Climate Summit'

Real leaders held without trial while politicians flee climate crime scene

Posted by tracy - 21 December 2009 at 12:28pm - 4 Comments

Update 6 Jan 10: They've been released! Our four activists endured 20 days in a Copenhagen jail following a peaceful protest at the State Banquet for world leaders attending the UN climate summit. The four activists still face trial in the Danish courts, and possible prison sentences. You sent over 12,000 letters to the Danish Embassy in London during their detention - thank you so much for your support ensuring their release.

Four of our activists face the prospect of Christmas in jail this year over charges relating to a protest at the Heads of State dinner at the Copenhagen climate summit. But the leaders who did practically nothing about the greatest threat to our planet got away.

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Copenhagen: Blow by blow

Posted by tracy - 18 December 2009 at 6:11pm - 0 Comments

While we're waiting to hear the announcements from Copenhagen - here's a blow by blow account of what's happened at the Summit so far - written by Martin Lloyd, our climate communications manager:

With thousands of negotiators and hundreds of points to agree it may be impossible to come up with a comprehensive account of what happened. But I'll try and list some of the highlights.

At the start of the year the game-plan for success when it came to getting a fair, ambitious and binding agreement looked like this.

1. Rich countries needed to show they were serious by offering significant and guaranteed funds to support action by the developing world.

2. The developing world would then have the confidence to commit to action

3. Which would let Rich nations commit to stronger action

4. The handful of holdout nations would then face a world united for climate action

As the talks started, despite two years of negotiations there was almost no progress to report. Only a series of commitments from the developing world, all conditional on the rich countries coming up with the money.

So, what happened?

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A meeting in Copenhagen – what’s it all about?

Posted by christian - 19 November 2009 at 10:12am - 8 Comments

Watch all three videos about the human consequences of climate change

The key thing to understand about the upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen is how massively, vitally, fate-of-the-earth-decidingly important brackets are to the whole process. Yes, [brackets]. If you grasp the brackets thing, then everything else is pretty much irrelevant detail.

Nevertheless, let's do a little run-through before we get onto it.

The Copenhagen summit, also known as the Conference of the Parties 15 or COP15, or 'the best moment we've ever had to actually, you know, sort it out', is the fifteenth big meeting organised by the United Nations to discuss a global response to climate change.

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