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经过几天的沉淀,回首过去几个月的经历,因为亲身感受到气候变化问题的迫切,政治角力拉扯失据,我深深明白到要力抗气候变化,要求我们更持久、更普及的教育及推动改变生活、营商及施政。气候变化来自生活点滴大家可能会误以为要对抗气候变化是以国际法主导,而遗忘了气候变化的成因,也误会了对抗这个问题的方法是遥不可及。联合国气候变化框架公约以及京都议定书,其实是一个国际政府表示认同气候变化需要多边会谈去促进合作,也订明气候变化的历史责任谁属、有必要作出减排及提供援助的责任,还有谁是气候变化的受害者并需要什么援助,订定减排量及时间表等等。这是政府间的协议。千万不要以为我们要什么生活都不要,要作重大牺牲才能改...
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At a vigal for survival we had time to reflect on what was happening in CopenhagenFriday night, half an hour after Obama’s press conference was met with a stunned silence all over Copenhagen, I found myself back at the conference centre.This time not on the inside, but standing outside at the exi...
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Vídeo acatarrado un pelín antes de irme de Copenhague:
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Por Adriana CharouxEstar em Copenhague está sendo uma das experiências mais emocionantes da minha vida.Apesar de toda a injustiça, apesar de toda barganha sacana dos líderes, da recusa dos países desenvolvidos em diminuir suas emissões de carbono, apesar do nível de arrogância e displicência ...
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For two years we have been talking about Copenhagen.Two long years, campaigning for a fair, binding and ambitious deal. A real deal that would protect our planet’s environment and see justice for all humanity that depends upon it. These two years come at the end of seventeen years, since the Rio ...
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I have been struggling throughout the day to find out the status of the talks and discover some inkling of the ultimate end result. Fingers twitching, toes tapping, and nerves on edge, we trackers watched throughout the day for any signals from the tightly closed group of world leaders parked les...
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I’m not going to call this a UNFCCC deal or a COP15 deal. This was a Heads of State deal. At least at now that’s all it is.  Anyway, reactions as they come:Bill McKibben, American environmentalist and founder of 350.org, responds to Obama’s press conference this evening:“T...
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Says the NYTimes:The United States, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” at the Copenhagen climate change conference, an Obama administration official said.“It’s not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change, but it’s an important first step,” the official s...
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Having been shut out of the negotiations this is how the trackers are following the action now.PhysicallyEmotionallyPsychologicallyExhaustedHere in Copenhagen the negotiations are still going on. As we can’t get into the actual negotiations we are all sat in a room in the city centre watching the...
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Hoje pela manhã, no último dia da reunião de clima (CoP-15), o presidente Lula fez um ótimo discurso, negando-se a assinar qualquer documento só para falar que chegaram a um acordo e se mostrou disposto a doar recursos para fundo de mudanças de clima. Reconheceu que não existe nenhum acordo ainda...
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据白宫报导,奥巴马与温家宝在会议场内作双边会谈,并「取得进展」。这个为时55分钟会谈于下午1.35结束。白宫人员称是次讨论为具建设性,并按奥巴马于讲话中列出的三个范畴 – 各国减排目标, 核实机制以及资金问题。奥巴马及温家宝随后逐一会见各自的谈判团队,以及其他国家的代表,目的是寻求共识。白宫官员续说,这是迈进了一步及有进展。他目的是是于今天达成共识。
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From the White House pool reports:President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met for 55 minutes in a room at the Bella Center, and “made progress,” a White House official said. That meeting broke up a little after 1:35 p.m. Copenhagen time.The official called the discussion “constructive,” an...
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The Climate Action Network (CAN) presented Canada with the 2009 Fossil of the Year Award for winning the most Fossil of the Day Awards throughout the 2009 UNFCCC negotiations.
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Count Friends of the Earth as being less than impressed:“President Obama’s rhetoric is empty. The U.S. has failed to significantly improve upon the weak position it brought to these talks.“This speech appears to be more of a face-saving exercise for President Obama than an attem...
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Not his A-game, I’d say. Here it is:THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary_______________________________________________________________________________________FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 18, 2009Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for DeliveryCopenhagen SummitCopenhagen,...
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Ok, there are far more important things happening today, but Thom Yorke has been something of a hero for over 12 years now. And of course the first day they won’t let me into the Bella, Yorke’s there.  Here’s him telling world leaders to “get their shit together”:Say...
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While Harper was in Copenhagen tonight, he declined to present Canada’s speech to the plenary (unlike many other world leaders), and sent Environment Minister Jim Prentice in his stead.There is nothing startling in this speech, and it includes many of the positions already identified in pre...
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Candles at the 'Vigil for Survival' held at the new NGO spaceI am currently writing to you from a warehouse somewhere outside the city of Copenhagen. Various NGOs have been scrambling to set up facilities to support continued engagement with the process.I have now been officially shut out of the ...
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Mentre ieri sera i negoziati sembravano avere pochissime probabilità di terminare con un esito positivo, ecco che questa mattina ci sono stati alcuni annunci che hanno ridato vita alle speranze di chi vuole e crede in un trattato equo, ambizioso e legalmente vincolante.Tutto è cominciato quando l...
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post scritto ieri.La confusione si sta impadronendo della conferenza, così come la delusione, l’abbattimento, il dispiacere stanno prendendo pian piano il sopravvento su di noi e tutti quelli che come noi hanno davvero a cuore quello di cui stiamo parlando: la sopravvivenza di popoli.Ieri vi avev...
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Yesterday was our last chance to make our voices heard inside the negotiations.Yesterday was the last day we were allowed into the negotiations in Copenhagen. The world leaders have turned up and access for civil society to these negotiations is now severely restricted.So yesterday we had to make...
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Un tête-à-tête entre les Chefs d'Etat et les médiasMe voilà normalement sortant dans mon dernier jour d’observation des négociations ici à Copenhague, peut-être même mon dernier jour de suivi des négociations sur le climat pour quelques mois voire quelques années. La frustration perpétuelle n...
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From inside the Bella Centre, Thursday:
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This strikes me as pretty big news. Secretary of State Clinton just announced that the U.S. would support a $100 billion global fund for mitigation and adaptation, and that the U.S. would pay it’s fair share into this.  It would come from a wide variety of sources: public and private, bilat...
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COP15, Thursday, December 17th
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Looking back at the last week dynamics it is interesting to see to such political activity and internal politics. Since climate change brings on the table issues such as trade, globalization,health,education,ethics, culture and even gender all playing with the backdrop of the rich history of deve...
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Am Ende. Alleine. Im Bella Centre.Das Ende naht. Das Ende von sechs Monaten Durchhalteparolen, Strategietreffen, Kampagnen, mutigen, heiteren, traurigen und erfolgreichen Phasen des Trackerdaseins. Es ist  zwei Uhr nachts und ich sitze noch immer im Bella Centre, dem Konferenzzentrum des COP15 in...