First draft for a Copenhagen Agreement

First draft for a Copenhagen agreement
Read the draft here:
Framework Convention on Climate Change
It’s a “big moment for the talks”, said Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, which published the documents on Friday.
Michael von Bülow 18/05/2009 08:15
The United Nations took a first step towards a new climate [...]

CO2 hits 800,000-year high

CO2 hits 800,000-year high at Mauna Loa Observatory Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (USA) Atmospheric CO2 reached 389.47 parts per million (ppm) in the month of April 2009.

Understanding Climate Change Ethics as a Subset of Global Ethics

I. Introduction – Global Ethics
Ethics is understood to be the domain of inquiry that examines claims about what is right or wrong, obligatory, or when responsibility attaches to human action. Global ethics is usually understood to be the field of inquiry examining ethical claims that apply universally to all citizens [...]

Bolivia’s Chacaltaya Glacier has Disappeared

High above sea level, in the breathtaking Andes mountains of Bolivia, the Chacaltaya glacier existed for 18,000 years, until now. What was known as “the highest ski run in the world” has melted away. ”Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists,” said Dr. Edson Ramirez, head of a team of [...]

Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a Year

Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a Year

May 29, 2009
First ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year

Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per [...]

Urgent Online Action Alert for Bill C-311

Urge Parliament to Pass Bill C-311
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Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Will our government act to stop global warming?
Parliament is currently debating Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act. The purpose of the Act is to prevent dangerous climate change, by ensuring “that Canada contributes fully to the stabilization [...]

First and Worst | Tonnes of CO2 Per Capita

First and Worst
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By Andreas.Huebers

Africa has contributed least to the current climate change. In fact, UN statisticians have found that only 3.6% of global C02-emissions come from the African continent (see figure above).
In stark contrast, the continent is affected “first and worst”. Some examples include severe floods in Zambia and [...]

It Isn’t Nice | Ted Glick

It Isn’t Nice
Jun 01, 2009 By Ted Glick
Ted Glick’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
Off and on, for the last five years that I’ve been actively involved with the climate movement, I and others have analogized what we need to be doing on this issue to the civil rights movement of the 1950s [...]