Walk Against Warming (WAW) is coming up on December 12. A fun family day with a serious message, this year’s march on climate change comes at a crucial time. It will coincide with the middle of climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen and an International Day of Action that will see people across the world take […]
6 days to go to my birthday*! Which means it is 6 days to go to the International Blog Action Day on October 15th. I thought I’d make list of words to describe the outcome I’d like to see from the Copenhagen negotiations. Not more terms and numbers, scientists have told us what the technical […]
Here’s a few rather alarming figures for you. We are now less than 70 days from the crucial Copenhagen Climate Summit, where world leaders are due to meet and forge the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Between now and then we have only 3 weeks of official negotiations remaining, most of which will take […]
Forget the Atkins diet, here’s the ultimate new, pain-free weight-loss formula: instead of actually eating less, pay somebody else to go on a diet for you. What a plan!
Swap cake for carbon and you have a major part of the government’s current scheme to deal with climate change. Instead of cutting emissions at home, […]
With the G20 meeting getting under way in London, the many faces of protest have been revealed. Over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen a range of tactics and messages from police and protesters. A call for justice and equality, for peace and safety has been issued to the rulers locked in their meetings.
I’ve been […]
Later this year in Copenhagen, Denmark, governments will seek to finalise a framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. It is our collective last chance to put in place global policies to reduce emissions, to have a roughly 50/50 chance of avoiding runaway climate change.
The International Alliance of Research Universities organised a […]
This post is just in from Paul Yaqona, one of our Pacific representatives in Poznan.
It was an amazing experience to be part of the Global Day of Action on climate change. Marches around the world were held to ensure that government leaders arriving in Poznan listen to the will of their citizens and get serious […]
I’ve been a banner bearer in lots of marches back home and always thought the task was a breeze. That is, until I had to hold the lead banner for our delegation at the Global Day of Action on climate change with Steven, my counterpart from the USA. The temperature was minus zero, we couldn’t […]
As Australian government delegates do nothing in Poznan, our unsupported renewables industry starts to close down back home. Last night, ABC-TV’s 7.30 Report program revealed that hundreds of Australian wind industry employees are about to be sacked, thanks to government inaction on renewables target promises. And there’s a bitter irony. In the same town as […]
Paul Winn, our climate and forests campaigner, is in Poznan to talk about the Greenpeace Forests for Climate proposal.
The world’s forests are more than just carbon sticks and a market offset approach won’t do much to ensure real emissions reductions to help avert catastrophic climate change. Greenpeace proposes a solution that addresses the need to […]
This post is from Paul Yaqona, one of our Pacific representatives in Poznan.
The Poznan meeting has a bunch of ’side events’ (including one by Greenpeace on our Forests for Climate proposal). I’ve been to the ‘Local Mitigation and Adaptation Measures of Indigenous Peoples’ side event - and it proved to be a fantastic eye-opener for […]
Another update from the halls of Poznan. They really are halls too. Huge great cavernous things with terrible acoustics and miles of corridors. Hollow rhetoric resonates powerfully, bouncing off the walls and feeding back on itself to create the illusion of substance.
As I wrote yesterday, the key thing that needs to come out of […]
The first week of the UN climate change talks in Poznan, Poland are coming to an end, and so far, the 30-strong Australian delegation has remained resolutely silent during the sessions. According to my contacts on the ground at the meeting, the Australian delegates have hardly said a word - apart from suggesting time-wasting […]
This post is just in from Leah Wickham, one of our Pacific representatives in Poznan.
It’s day three of the UNFCCC COP 14, and while world leaders continue their discussions in Poznan to decide on measures to reduce global emissions, less than two hours away, in Konin, plans are in place to expand an enormous coal […]
This post is just in from Leah Wickham, our Pacific representative in Poznan.
I arrived in Poland two days ago, having travelled thousands of miles from the hub of the South Pacific and enduring flight delays, missed connections and lost luggage. Then there’s the cold and the minus-0 temperature. That is agonising for a girl from […]
Late on Friday afternoon, our Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, put out a media release stating that Australia would not be announcing it’s greenhouse reduction targets before the international meeting in Poznan. It seems that Cabinet are split on what the target should be. A decision still hasn’t been made but it will be […]
Professor Garnaut said he is hoping for a global agreement to limit greenhouse emissions to a level that is in Australia’s best interest as he delivered his final report to a press conference at Parliament House yesterday.
Keeping greenhouse emission levels to 450 parts per million (ppm) is the minimum that scientists say needs to be […]
It is 1am of Friday 4th April here at the UNESCAP Centre here in Bangkok. A team of NGO lobbyists just saw the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperation (govt delegates) walk out of the room. It had been a Greenpeace tag team effort since 5pm waiting for the outcomes of negotiations and […]
This is the 1st meeting since the Bali talks last Dec. The parties are starting to thrash out the framework and workplan to deliver a 2nd comitment period under the Kyoto Protocol by 2009. There are about 1,000 or so delegates present here in Bangkok, a much smaller number than there was in Bali. Despite […]
Day three of the Bangkok climate talks saw the Australian delegate turn her back on binding commitments and reaffirm the rhetoric of the Howard era by announcing Australia’s support for the USA’s goal of ‘aspiration emission targets’.