Archives for December 2009
Copenhagen: It’s going to get harder, and that’s a good thing!
“…the very struggle to reach agreement at Copenhagen, and the tougher talks to come, demonstrate that climate diplomacy has finally come of age.” [Indeed], “the onset of a kind of climate realpolitik, which eschews hot air for real action, signals is a sign that global climate talks have moved beyond symbolic rhetoric.” – excerpts from Time Magazine article. Click HERE for more info.
Copenhagen: less than hoped for, but much better than nothing!
“This is the biggest peacetime mobilization of global effort on anything”. “If you think back a year or so, imagine the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Australia, and Russia all turning up and making definitive national commitments to significant reductions… It would have been inconceivable a year ago.” – excerpts from Bloomberg BusinessWeek article. Click HERE for more info.
Copenhagen good for Business!
“Clean energy may be the greatest opportunity of this century”. – excerpt from Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Click HERE for more info.
Copenhagen Climate Meeting!
“The largest and most important U.N. Climate Change conference in history opened Monday… the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.” – excerpt from the Associated Press. Click HERE to read entire article.