dezembro 19, 2009

COP15: the end


Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure
Deal thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action

The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.

After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord "recognises" the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal.

American officials spun the deal as a "meaningful agreement", but even Obama said: "This progress is not enough."

But it disappointed African and other vulnerable countries who had been holding out for far deeper emission cuts to hold the global temperature rise to 1.5C this century. As widely expected, all references to 1.5C in previous drafts were removed at the last minute, but more surprisingly, the earlier 2050 goal of reducing global CO2 emissions by 80% was also dropped.

It's a gut-busting, heart-breaking cop-out and I'm so very, very angry although sadly not very surprised. The exhaustion we're all feeling in the Greenpeace team only adds to the appalling sense of frustration - our leaders swanned in and let us all down. The deal isn't fair or ambitious and it certainly isn't legally binding. Even though the agreement, such as it is, has yet to be sealed, they have failed.

I hoped it would be different but the skewed nature of international diplomacy has led the Copenhagen summit through two turbulent weeks into an exercise in arm-twisting and back-room deals. The bullying tactics of the developed countries have ensured they have got what they want, despite the attempts of some developing countries to stand their ground.

Two years has passed since world leaders promised all of us a deal to stop climate change. After two weeks of UN negotiations, politicians breezed in, had dinner with the Queen, a three hour lunch, took some photos and then delivered what could only be described as the 24 hour Head of State tourist brochure of Copenhagen instead of a climate treaty.

Don’t believe the hype, there is nothing fair, ambitious or legally binding about this deal. The job of world leaders is not done. Today they shamefully failed to save us all from the effects of catastrophic climate change.

The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. What we needed was a legally binding agreement that was fair to developing countries and ambitious when it came to emissions cuts and ending deforestation. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through. We’ve seen a year of crises, but today it is clear that the biggest one facing humanity is a leadership crisis.

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Vigil For Survival



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dezembro 17, 2009

The World Wants a Real Deal

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550 ppm?


by Naomi Klein

On the ninth day of the Copenhagen climate summit, Africa was sacrificed. The position of the G77 negotiating bloc, including African states, had been clear: a 2C increase in average global temperatures translates into a 3–3.5C increase in Africa. That means, according to the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, "an additional 55 million people could be at risk from hunger", and "water stress could affect between 350 and 600 million more people".

Archbishop Desmond Tutu puts it like this: "We are facing impending disaster on a monstrous scale … A global goal of about 2C is to condemn Africa to incineration and no modern development."

At the start of these negotiations the mere notion of delay was environmental heresy. But now many are seeing the value of slowing down and getting it right. Most significant, after describing what 2C would mean for Africa, Archbishop Tutu pronounced that it is "better to have no deal than to have a bad deal". That may well be the best we can hope for in Copenhagen. It would be a political disaster for some heads of state – but it could be one last chance to avert the real disaster for everyone else.
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3ºC


UN secretariat initial draft shows gap of up to 4.2 gigatonnes of CO2 between present pledges and cuts required to limit rise to 2C

A confidential UN analysis obtained by the Guardian reveals that the emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit will lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C.

The analysis seriously undermines the statements by governments that they are aiming to limit emissions to a level ensuring no more than a 2C temperature rise over the next century, and indicates that the last 24 hours of negotiations will be extremely challenging.

A rise of 3C would mean up to 170 million more people suffering severe coastal floods and 550 million more at risk of hunger, according to the 2006 Stern economic review of climate change for the UK government - as well as leaving up to 50% of species facing extinction. Even a rise of 2C would lead to sharp decline in tropical crop yields, more flooding and droughts.

Greenpeace campaigner Joss Garman said: "This is an explosive document that shows the numbers on the table at the moment would lead to nothing less than climate breakdown and an extraordinarily dangerous situation for humanity. The UN is admitting in private that the pledges made by world leaders would lead to a 3C rise in temperatures. The science shows that could lead to the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, crippling water shortages across South America and Australia and the near-extinction of tropical coral reefs, and that's just the start of it."


A leaked copy of an official UN assessment just emerged from the talks--it says quite clearly that the proposals now on the table will yield temperature increases of at least 3 degrees Celsius. This is what the Climate Interactive folks have been saying all along, news that's been reflected on the front of our website. But now the UN is saying it, and they're adding--in one of the classic examples of bureaucratic understatement of all time, that the estimated temperature rise of 3 degrees “will reduce significantly the probability to stay within a temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius.”  You think?

The analysis concluded that without much stronger action to cut emissions both before and after 2020, “global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 p.p.m. [parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air] with the related temperature” rising 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. That is far above the thresholds for dangerous warming being debated at the meeting and accepted in recent statements by the major economies of the world.
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17 Dezembro 2009



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COP15: 36 hours left

Negociações estão praticamente paradas - 16/12/2009

Foi um dia para esquecer em Copenhaga. Um dia praticamente perdido, quando faltam apenas 48 horas para o fim da conferência da ONU que deverá definir o próximo passo internacional contra as alterações climáticas. Ao princípio da noite, as negociações estavam praticamente paradas, em consequência de entraves levantados ao longo do dia.

Logo de manhã, as notícias já não eram boas. Representantes de 192 países tinham estado reunidos a noite toda para tentar desbloquear os principais pontos de conflito para decisões centrais em Copenhaga. Mas sem resultado. Nada estava decidido sobre o essencial: novas metas de redução de emissões de CO2 para os países desenvolvidos, acções para limitar o crescimento de emissões dos países em desenvolvimento, financiamento às nações mais pobres, o futuro do Protocolo de Quioto.

Sem avanços, a presidente da conferência, a dinamarquesa Connie Hedegaard, tentou dar um passo à frente e anunciou que proporia novos textos para serem discutidos. Ao invés de progresso, a iniciativa resultou em bloqueio.

A succession of world leaders, including Gordon Brown, are due to address the summit today as troubled negotiations for a climate deal are on the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, angry activists outside the conference venue ponder their next move - Follow live updates
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16 Dez: Reclaim the Power

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Danish police arrest 260 people after a day of mass protest where 4,000 campaigners marched on the Bella centre and activists inside staged a noisy walkout

Protests involving thousands of people today inside and outside the Bella conference centre hosting UN climate talks in Copenhagen have passed off without major incident.

About 4,000 campaigners marched on the Bella centre in an attempt to stage a "people's assembly" inside the summit, but were stopped by police. At least 260 protesters have been detained following clashes outside the Bella centre, said the Danish police spokesman, Per Larsen.

Tim Jones, policy officer for anti-poverty campaigners the World Development Movement, said: "Today thousands of people sought to create a people's assembly to get voices heard offering real solutions to the climate crisis. The people's assembly was stopped by police who committed unprovoked violence on both protesters and official delegates to the UN negotiations.

Security measures stepped up around city as thousands of demonstrators set off for mass invasion of Bella centre

Danish police today arrested 230 people at various points around Copenhagen, where world leaders and officials are meeting for UN climate talks.

The news came as thousands of protesters set out in Copenhagen this morning in a bid to take over the conference centre where the talks are taking place. The organisers of the mass "Reclaim Power" march, the Climate Justice Action and Climate Justice Now! (CJN) networks of campaigners, said they hope to enter the Bella centre today, where NGOs and activist groups were struggling to gain entry this morning, to hold a "people's assembly" in protest at the direction the talks are taking.

In the bitter cold outside the Bella centre where the conference is being held, a group of around 60 people including indigenous groups, mainstream environment groups and journalist and activist Naomi Klein were protesting about NGOs being excluded from the conference centre. They had been met by police who warned that they may be arrested, although there has not been any violence. Klein said of the handling of the protests that, "Denmark is losing its reputation for being a good world citizen."

These are shocking images of police brutality from outside the Bella Center where the UN climate talks seem to be fracturing just hours before over 100 heads of state are scheduled to arrive to debate a climate deal. It’s all the more striking to see the faces of some of our friends and co-workers in this video from CNN (it can’t embed, but please do watch, it is striking footage)

The Danish police have escalated their attempts to criminalise and harass activists from the group Climate Justice Action in tactics described as “desperate and self-interested.”

The group is an international coalition of grass-roots organisations, representing the voices of those marginalised from the UN process from the start of these negotiations, including indigenous rights activists, farmers movements and environmentalists.





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16 Dez: inside Bella Center


Security intensifies ahead of mass action to invade summit as 115 world leaders arrive for high-level talks

Friends of the Earth international, Avaaz, TckTckTck and other mainstream environment coalition groups were refused entry to the Copenhagen conference centre this morning, without being given any reason.

The Bella centre is the focal point for climate activists who are aiming to invade the summit today. Around the city, some 150 arrests have been made this morning as part of an intensification of security to keep the lid on actions in the conference centre as the first of 115 world leaders arrives in Copenhagen amid the major protests.

In a separate development, hundreds of non-government groups are to be individually banned from the centre or have their numbers slashed from tomorrow to make way for world leaders. Only 1,000 people from civil society will be allowed in to the conference hall tomorrow, and 90 on Friday.








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Democracy Now: cobertura Reclaim the Power

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Climate Crackdown: UN Bars Friends of the Earth and Other Environmental Groups from Climate Talks

The crackdown around the UN climate talks in Copenhagen is intensifying. Earlier today the United Nations suspended several mainstream environmental groups and barred members from re-entering the conference. Organizations targeted include Friends of the Earth, Tck Tck Tck, Avaaz, World Vision and Via Campesina. Democracy Now! caught up with Nnimmo Bassey, the prominent Nigerian environmentalist, just as he was being removed by security from the conference.

Police Pepper Spray, Arrest Protesters Marching on UN Climate Summit as Hundreds Inside Stage Walkout

In Copenhagen, thousands of protesters marched toward the UN climate summit on Wednesday with the stated goal of transforming the talks into a People’s Assembly and to call for climate justice. Police made over 200 arrests. Meanwhile, inside the Bella Center, hundreds of people staged a walkout to try and meet the marchers outside but were met with a heavy police response.
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COP15: os últimos dias


http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/2009/12/update3_days_left_1.html

Actually, not everybody has the same cards. The Least Developed Countries, the poorest of the poor, and the Association of Small Island States, also mostly poor, have less cards to play than the rich industrialized countries. They also cheat less to be honest. Their emissions are so small they can offer little in the way of mitigation. They come asking for help to adapt as weather patterns change, storms grow and seas rise. They are being offered a tiny fraction of what economists say they will need. It might even be the only card they have to play is to pack up and leave, refusing to sign on to a national suicide pact. 

To gain some influence in the talks, they are aligned with a large group of developing countries that goes by the name of the G77. Other than the poorest countries, this group includes what have become known as the BASIC countries. Those letters (kind of) stand for the names of the biggest of the emerging economies: Brazil, South Africa, India and China. These countries have emissions profiles that are distinctive for a combination of four factors. They represent a significant portion of current global emissions and a large portion of future emissions growth, but they do not represent a significant proportion of historic emissions and their per capita emissions levels are far below the developed world. Each of these countries has made significant pledges to slow the growth of their emissions, but refuse to set absolute limits on growth for economies that includes hundreds of millions of people that still live below income levels of two dollars per day.

There is one last block of G77 countries. They are largely oil producers led by Saudi Arabia. For the most part, they are here to stop anything from happening to the oil industry.

First among developed countries is the European Union. The EU is perhaps the most transparent group here. But their pledge of 20% reduction from 1990 levels is not what it seems. The EU moves as a bloc of countries and includes Eastern European countries that had high post-Soviet emissions in 1990. Many of those countries are significantly below those levels now, allowing other EU countries higher emissions while still claiming overall reductions.

After the EU, comes a group of developed countries called the Umbrella Group, including Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia. These countries are a mixed bag. Canada is horrible and claims it is horrible because the U.S. is horrible. Russia is sitting on a load of hot air. That is the term for the emissions credits based on those higher 1990 levels that I talked about earlier. Russia can claim to reduce emissions about 40% below 1990 levels while nonetheless actually increasing emissions and selling that hot air to polluting countries. 

This brings me to the U.S. We are now proposing to reduce emissions a miserable 3-4% below 1990 levels. We have put no solid financing numbers on the table to help developing countries mitigate their emissions or adapt to the climate problem we helped create.

So it is easy to see why I say there is almost no reason to be encouraged. ALMOST no reason. Let me point out the cracks of light. First, other than the elites that run the show here, the world largely supports strong action on an international climate deal. The hundred thousand or so in the streets here on Saturday were just one example.

President Obama could come here and unlock a deal that is fair, ambitious and legally binding. He could instruct negotiators to stop creating loopholes and blocking honest progress. He could commit to go beyond the weak levels proposed in the current bills before Congress. He could pledge to raise funds to help the world’s most vulnerable adapt to a problem that was created by our American lifestyles of consumption. He could sign up to a deal that has real consequences for the failure to meet commitments.
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Blame Canada


Indigenous Peoples of Canada March on Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to Protest Tar Sands

Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the United States, and most of it comes from the Alberta tar sands. Described as the world’s biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions, the tar sands have drawn widespread protest and civil disobedience from environmentalists. On Tuesday, as climate delegates met across town at the Bella Center, a protest led by indigenous peoples of Canada was held outside the Canadian embassy.
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Bill McKibben da 350.org

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“We’re Trying to Provide the Armies that They Lack”–Bill McKibben on Supporting Poor, Vulnerable Nations with Mass Protest Movements.

On Saturday, 100,000 people marched in Copenhagen from the Danish Parliament to just outside the Bella Center, the site of the UN climate change conference. Over 3,000 solidarity events were held around the world. 
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Using Controversial Law, Danish Police Preemptively Arrest Over 1,000 Protesters

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Saturday’s protest in Copenhagen was overwhelmingly peaceful, but there were isolated incidents of targeted property destruction. To the shock of many, Danish police made nearly 1,000 arrests. Hundreds of handcuffed protesters were held for hours lined up on the cold street. Under a newly passed law, Danish police can preemptively arrest and detain anyone for up to twelve hours who they believe is likely to break the law in the near future.
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dezembro 16, 2009

17 dezembro: Climate Justice Fast


http://avaaz.org/en/climate_justice_fast/

As the climate talks in Copenhagen reach their climax, the time has come to add a new element to the political pressure and intellectual arguments: Moral force. Leaders arriving in Copenhagen now face a decision about whether to do what is right.

Thousands of young people in Copenhagen will be fasting on Thursday--inspired by three who have fasted, under appropriate medical supervision, for 42 days. By joining the fast, and communicating its message to politicians and our communities, we can send a signal that we as humanity are united across borders, and ready for change--rising above short-sighted interests for a fair and just world for all. 
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dezembro 14, 2009

The world wants a real deal

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350


http://www.350.org/

And what does this 350 number even mean?

350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in "Parts Per Million" in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.

Where did this 350 number come from?

Dr. James Hansen, of NASA, the United States' space agency, has been researching global warming longer than just about anyone else. He was the first to publicly testify before the U.S. Congress, in June of 1988, that global warming was real. He and his colleagues have used both real-world observation, computer simulation, and mountains of data about ancient climates to calculate what constitutes dangerous quantities of carbon in the atmosphere. The Bush Administration has tried to keep Hansen and his team from speaking publicly, but their analysis has been widely praised by other scientists, and by experts like Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. 

If we're already past 350, are we all doomed?

No. We're like the patient that goes to the doctor and learns he's overweight, or his cholesterol is too high. He doesn't die immediately—but until he changes his lifestyle and gets back down to the safe zone, he's at more risk for heart attack or stroke. The planet is in its danger zone because we've poured too much carbon into the atmosphere, and we're starting to see signs of real trouble: melting ice caps, rapidly spreading drought. We need to scramble back as quickly as we can to safety.
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Manifestação dia 12: videos

video do Guardian sobre a manifestação de sábado 12 dezembro:
After tens of thousands of climate change protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen, police make hundreds of arrests













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dezembro 13, 2009

Hundreds arrested at Copenhagen protest rally


Hundreds of people were arrested in Copenhagen today after sporadic street violence broke out during a major protest march as UN climate change talks reached their halfway point.

Organisers estimated that up to 100,000 protesters, including some dressed as penguins and polar bears and carrying signs saying "Save the Humans", joined the march across the city to the conference centre where negotiators and ministers are meeting.

Danish police have released hundreds of activists who were detained during a mass rally to demand a global climate pact, as police were accused of overreacting to sporadic street violence.

Mel Evans from Climate Justice Action said protesters were held for hours in freezing conditions without water, toilets or medical attention.

"People were very scared and they were held for about four hours on the ground. They weren't able to have any medical attention, any water, and weren't allowed to have any toilet facilities," she told BBC Five Live. "People were there in freezing conditions urinating on themselves and being held in lines like, essentially, like animals."
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do jornal Público

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Milhares de pessoas desfilaram em Copenhaga para defender o planeta. A polícia deteve 700, mas a marcha seguiu de forma pacífica

O tom da maioria dos protestos era pacífico mas a violência surgiu quando alguns activistas radicais lançaram pedras à polícia e partiram janelas do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros. O corpo de intervenção estava a postos e só esperou pela primeira pedra para deter de forma quase aleatória cerca de 700 pessoas - os activistas vestidos de negro, do movimento "Never trust a cop" e muitos outros inocentes que rodeavam o grupo e foram isolados em bloco. A polícia justificou a acção como uma medida preventiva, autorizada pela lei aprovada para a conferência, que facilita as detenções.

Apesar dos incidentes, o dia foi de festa, num convite à imaginação pelo protesto mais original. O mundo inteiro estava representado em Copenhaga, com música, números de circo, máscaras, ursos polares e pinguins munidos de palavras de acção. "O que é que queremos? Justiça climática! Quando? Já!" foi o mote que embalou os cinco mil manifestantes que deram o pontapé de saída durante a manhã, num primeiro protesto pintado de azul, organizado pela associação "Amigos da Terra".

Enquanto milhares de pessoas gritavam palavras de ordem nas ruas de Copenhaga, Daniel Lau acumulava energias para a semana que se avizinha. Cumpriu ontem o seu 30.º dia de greve de fome e os 45 quilos que leva em cima dos ossos não lhe permitiram participar na manifestação.

Nos próximos dias Daniel e os três companheiros de jejum em Copenhaga tencionam manter-se activos no Bella Center, com um único objectivo em mente: não comer enquanto não assistirem a um "compromisso significativo" por parte dos líderes políticos.

entrevista video a um membro do grupo Climate Justice Fast, a cumprir greve de fome em Copenhaga.
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Actualizações da DemocracyNow

Here in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in a march Saturday protesting the failure of world leaders to address the climate crisis. Saturday’s march is just one of a series of major demonstrations scheduled over the week. Activists from around Europe and the world are flooding into Copenhagen. Meanwhile, the Danish police have launched its largest security effort. Last night, Democracy Now! got a rare tour inside several of the key convergent spaces where protest organizers are preparing for the demonstrations.


Longtime South African activist Kumi Naidoo was recently appointed the new executive director of Greenpeace International. In 1986 Naidoo was forced to go underground after he was arrested for violating the apartheid government’s state of emergency regulations. He later became one of the founders of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. We speak to Naidoo about Obama’s Nobel Prize, the status of the Copenhagen summit, climate debt, and how his days resisting the apartheid government have influenced his current fight for climate justice.
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dezembro 12, 2009

COP15: dias 5, 6 & 7


Copenhagen climate change conference in pictures: galeria Guardian
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Climategate = propaganda

Sarah Palin escreveu (!) um artigo (!!) que foi publicado no WashingtonPost e Guardian (??) com o sugestivo título de "Boycott Copenhagen", apoiada pelo recente mas facilmente desacreditado "Climategate", uma campanha patrocinada por empresas com interesse em espalhar dúvidas na opinião pública sobre a credibilidade de conclusões científicas validadas por uma enorme parte da comunidade científica. Sarah Palin, uma criacionista, escreve "I've always believed that policy should be based on sound science" e fica tudo dito. Não vale a pena citar o texto quando encontramos logo nos primeiros comentários: 

"With the publication of damaging emails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement" - Wow. Wrong before you'd finished your first sentence. The legends are true. Its not the "radical environmental movement" that says man-made climate change is happening and needs to be averted. Its not a few scientists who acted inappropriately either. Its the entire science of climatology. There you go. Done in four paragraphs. One of which was yours, and two of which were me just mucking about. I can see why Obama had such an easy time last autumn."

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Climate denial industry


Num informativo (e informado) artigo de George Monbiot, podemos ficar a saber mais sobre a
"But people behind these campaigns know that their claims are untrue. One of the biggest was run by the Global Climate Coalition, which represented ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, the American Petroleum Institute and several big motor manufacturers. In 1995 the coalition's own scientists reported that "the scientific basis for the greenhouse effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well-established and cannot be denied". The coalition hid this finding from the public, and spent millions of dollars seeking to persuade people that the opposite was true."

mais exemplos como o da imagem aqui
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A antiglobalização quer chegar à idade adulta

artigo do jornal Público

"Há dez anos, uma manhã em Seattle mudou para sempre a forma de organizar mega-eventos internacionais. Mudou também a ideia de que o mundo acreditava na inevitabilidade do pensamento único e do capitalismo como resposta para todos os males. O movimento dos movimentos ou antiglobalização começava a sua ascensão. Os que fizeram refém a cidade de Seattle em 1999 querem agora mais. Querem tomar Copenhaga."

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Activist Preparations in Copenhagen

Ahead of Major Climate Protests, a Rare Glimpse at Activist Preparations in Copenhagen

Here in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in a march Saturday protesting the failure of world leaders to address the climate crisis. Saturday’s march is just one of a series of major demonstrations scheduled over the week. Activists from around Europe and the world are flooding into Copenhagen. Meanwhile, the Danish police have launched its largest security effort. Last night, Democracy Now! got a rare tour inside several of the key convergent spaces where protest organizers are preparing for the demonstrations.

Police in Copenhagen arrested 68 protesters during the first day of serious demonstrations connected with the UN climate talks.

According to police, 250 activists met in Nytorv Square in the centre of the city at 10am before dispersing to targets including the Danish Energy Association, McDonalds, Deloitte, Repsol, Shell and the shipping company Maersk. Organisers, who had distributed maps to guide protesters, put the number of protesters at between 500 and 1,000.

A polícia dinamarquesa dispersou hoje uma manifestação, que acontecia ao som de frases anti-capitalistas, no centro de Copenhaga. Dezenas de pessoas foram detidas.

A manifestação, que respondeu ao apelo da coligação Climate Action Justice, reuniu cerca de 200 pessoas. Várias delas foram libertadas ontem à noite depois de terem sido detidas durante uma marcha para pedir um novo acordo climático global mais ambicioso.
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dezembro 11, 2009

Climate Justice Fast

Climate Justice Activists Enter Day 34 of Hunger Strike

entrevista em Copenhaga (video) da Democracy Now à activista australiana Anna Keenan, de 24 anos, em greve de fome há 34 dias.

"My name is Anna Keenan. I’m from Australia, but I’ve been living in Europe for the last year. And I had my twenty-fourth birthday on day ten of the hunger strike. And now it’s day thirty-three of Climate Justice Fast, so I haven’t eaten in over a month."

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Chief Bolivian Negotiator Says Developed Countries Owe Climate Debt - entrevista da Democracy Now

One of the countries leading the call for just climate reparations here at the COP15 talks is Bolivia. We speak with Bolivia’s chief climate negotiator, Angelica Navarro. “Twenty percent of the population have actually emitted more than two-thirds of the emissions. And as a result, they have caused more than 90 percent of the increase in temperatures,” Navarro says. “We are not begging for aid; we want developed countries to comply with their obligation and pay their debt.”

ANGELICA NAVARRO: What the Danish text seems to do is a merger of the two, which impose new obligations to developing countries. So we are the ones who are supposed now to be mitigating. And I’m asking, what will a developing country, rural men or women—indigenous women in Bolivia doesn’t even have electricity—will mitigate? And for what? So that developed countries can even have still have two, three cars?
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Africa e a Cimeira de Copenhaga


Reacção africana (grupo G77 das nações mais pobres) ao esboço do texto de acordo preliminar entre Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e Dinamarca ("the danish text"). Este texto não contempla compensações significativas relativas ao Climate Debt, pretende acabar com o protocolo de Kyoto e desviar o controlo dos acordos sobre o Clima da ONU para o Banco Mundial e prevê ainda um nível aceitável para o aumento de temperatura na ordem dos 2 Cº:

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol

Emotional scenes at Copenhagen
"Today I witnessed an unexpected and extraordinary outburst of candour from one of the key players in these negotiations — Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese by birth and chief negotiator of the so-called G77 bloc (which mostly consists of poor countries)

He did not start his speech immediately. Instead he sat silently, tears rolling down his face. He put his head in his hands and said “We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.” The room was frozen into silence, shocked by the sight of a powerful negotiator, an African elder if you like, exhibiting such strong emotion. He apologised to the audience, but said that in his part of Sudan it was “better to stand and cry than to walk away.”

Speaking in measured tones, Di-Aping first attacked the 2 degrees C warming maximum that most rich countries currently consider acceptable. Referring continuously to science, in particular parts of the latest IPCC report (which he referenced by page and section) he said that 2 degrees C globally meant 3.5 degrees C for much of Africa. He called global warming of 2 degrees C “certain death for Africa”, a type of “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters. He said Africa was being asked to sign on to an agreement that would allow this warming in exchange for $10 billion, and that Africa was also being asked to “celebrate” this deal.

He explained that, by wanting to subvert the established post-Kyoto process, the industrialised nations were effectively wanting to ignore historical emissions, and by locking in deals that would allow each citizen of those countries to carry on emitting a far greater amount of carbon per year than each citizen in poor countries, would prevent many African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. This was nothing less than a colonisation of the sky, he said. “$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins”.

Obama, he said, would probably be brought to Copenhagen to ’sanctify’ this deal. “What is Obama going to tell his daughters? That their [Kenyan] relatives’ lives are not worth anything? It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we [Africans] are still considered ‘disposables’

Calling the current deal that was being proposed “worse than no deal”, he called on Africans to reject it — “I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace.” Africans had to make clear demands of their leaders not to sign on. He suggested a couple of slogans: “One Africa, one degree” and “Two degrees is suicide”

O primeiro esboço oficial do novo plano global de luta contra as alterações climáticas salienta que a temperatura do planeta não deve aumentar mais do que 1,5 a 2ºC, segundo um documento a que a AFP teve acesso na conferência de Copenhaga.

O G8 e as principais economias do planeta chegaram a acordo, em Julho, na localidade italiana de L'Aquila (Itália), para um limite do aumento da temperatura a 2ºC, para lá do qual as consequências para o planeta seriam perigosas.

Mas os pequenos Estados insulares têm vindo a insistir que essa meta é perigosa. Durante a conferência de Copenhaga, estes países reforçaram os alertas, lembrando a ameaça real da subida do nível da água dos oceanos. A meta dos 1,5ºC é defendida por cem países.

Os representantes do Grupo Africano na conferência de Copenhaga declararam esta manhã em conferência de imprensa que a meta dos 2ºC não é suficiente porque, um aumento de 2ºC em todo o planeta traduz-se em mais de 3ºC no continente africano. "Precisamos de mais para garantir a sobrevivência do povo africano", declarou um dos representantes
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Police Activity


A polícia dinamarquesa deteve esta manhã 35 simpatizantes do movimento “Our Climate - Not Your Business”, a título preventivo, por suspeitar que “se estariam a preparar para cometer actos ilegais”, informou Rasmus Bernt Skovgaard, o seu porta-voz.

Em resposta ao apelo daquele movimento, cerca de 250 jovens manifestaram-se em pontos estratégicos no centro da cidade de Copenhaga, com o slogan “Don’t buy the lie” (Não comprem a mentira). A manifestação não tinha sido autorizada pela polícia.

Activists: Police out of proportion
Last night at 3 am, around 200 police officers raided the Ragnhildgade centre in Northern Copenhagen where activists were staying during the Copenhagen climate talks. The police surrounded the building where the activists were sleeping and proceeded to confiscate a number of tools and materials, before leaving at around 4am.

In the early hours of Wednesday 9th December hundreds of police raided the accomodation centre at Ragnhildgade where climate protestors were sleeping. The police seized many items including work tools, meeting notes and work rotas, documents and permits, paint, and items for self defence including shields.

Police detain 200 activists at their Copenhagen accommodation and seize items they claim could be used for acts of civil disobedience

Uma rusga policial realizada ontem de madrugada em Copenhaga, capital dinamarquesa onde decorre a conferência climática das Nações Unidas, às instalações onde estavam alojados 200 activistas acabou na apreensão de um “kit” de desobediência civil.
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12 Dezembro 2009


Dia Mundial de Acção pelo Clima:

350.org - Weekend of Action: 11-13 December - "The World Wants a Real Deal!"
Global day of Action - International Demonstrations on Climate Change

Porto:
12 December 2009 - 10:00pm - 11:45pm
Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque

A partir das 22:00 do dia 12 de Dezembro, em plena Cimeira de Copenhaga, vamos acender uma vela de esperança num sítio emblemático e central do Porto, para mostrar que estamos de olhos postos na Cimeira e queremos que de lá saiam decisões vinculativas, imediatas e abrangentes a todo o planeta, quanto ás políticas sobre as Alterações Climáticas, e para mostrar a nossa solidariedade para com os cidadãos das nações cuja sobrevivência está ameaçada por esta crise climática.

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Foto do dia

United States proposes to cut emissions to close to 4% below 1990 levels - pending congressional approval


como diz a t-shirt, Obama: You've won it, now earn it

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Maldivas


democracy now (com video desde copenhaga)

One the countries on the front lines of climate change is the Maldives. Eighty percent of the land lies three feet or less above the waves. The predicted sea level rise caused by global warming could wipe the country off the map. We speak with fifteen-year-old Maldives climate ambassador, Mohamed Axam Maumoon. On his message to the world, Maumoon says, “On the basis that you know what you are doing is wrong and you can see that the victim is begging for mercy…would you commit murder?”
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