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Farewell to Yvo de Boer
No commentsIn his farewell speech the UN’s outgoing climate chief, Yvo de Boer, told his audience: “To use World Cup imagery: we got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee’s hand will edge towards the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancun and beyond”.
»Women Feel the Impact of Climate Change
No commentsRural women in developing countries are faced by huge climate change-related challenges yet very little is being done to make sure that they are part of the discussion process.
»Colombia’s Indian communities join forces to beat drought
No commentsColombia’s indigenous peoples are working together to create an adaptation plan against climate change, which will bring together their own traditional knowledge with outside help from other agencies.
»First comes the gun, then the choking air
No commentsImagine a scenario where the threat to the inhabitants of conflict-torn Kashmir won’t be the gun, but the quality of their air. The pollution trends in this part of the globe suggest that it has almost reached that point.
»The glacier that buried a village
No commentsScientists fear mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever as a result of rising temperatures, leading to fears that glacial lakes are becoming dangerously unstable. For Chitral village in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range this has already spelled disaster.
»Jairam Ramesh on the State Of Play
No commentsJairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister, speaks to Indian journalists at around the halfway mark of the Copenhagen talks. Here, he talks about how the BASIC group solved the Africa walk-out, on how the US could be brought into a deal and on how the negotiations are moving.
»Samso Island: The Clean Energy miracle
No commentsHow one small Danish island transformed itself from a quiet backwater to a pioneer in the world’s clean energy revolution.
»Worrying times for the world’s waste-pickers
1 commentSalvaging recyclable material from urban waste saves resources, and gives poor people a livelihood. But the survival of the waste-pickers is under threat.
»Of culture, climate and cycling
No commentsCycling is popular in Copenhagen, with nearly half the city’s population regularly taking to the saddle. Could it show the way to the rest of the world?
»Activists, Bill McKibben protest US-brokered climate deal
No commentsUndeterred by the bitter cold, around 200 activists rushed to the Bella Center in the middle of the night last December 18 to protest the Copenhagen Accord, a climate deal brokered by the US and endorsed by around 28 countries in the final hours of the climate talks.
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