With climate talks occurring at the United Nations International Climate Conference in Copenhagen, everyone is talking about climate change. I am thrilled at the attention it is getting, as some of my past blogs have addressed the fact that the media has seemed to have forgotten there is an issue on our hands, but not all of the attention has been positive.
Read MoreA story that has not been widely reported by the media is that nearly all of the NGO groups and observers are no longer able to access the Bella Center where the negotiations are underway at COP15. Why does that matter?
Read MoreToday things started out feeling dismal - like they were unraveling.
Over the weekend we got word that the many thousands of people gathered here to participate in the conference will not have access to the conference center because they are massively overbooked.
Read MoreToday was a pretty crazy day in the world of international climate negotiations that ended at a cocktail party at the Ambassador's house where the real Arnold was spotted.
Read MoreWhat do a thousand jailed demonstrators, President Obama, a dozen Fortune 100 CEOs, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and a melting ice sculpture of a polar bear have in common?
Read MoreI was wondering where they were. I had been in Copenhagen for a week and there was no sign of them. And then, after an early morning walk down to the water, I turned the corner and there they were. The protesters. The skeptics.
Read MoreOf the estimated 20,000 people converging on the UN climate conference this week and next, half of them are expected to be under the age of 30. My colleague in Copenhagen, Kristina Haddad, reports…
Read MoreIt has been a challenge here in Copenhagen to find a meal that does not involve a sausage wrapped in bacon (seriously - that seems to be a popular culinary treat), something to do with rare roast beef, or a sauté of a hoofed or winged friend from the animal kingdom.
Read MoreThere are a lot of images that are swimming in my head.
It's a bitter cold day and I’m tired. Though there were some developments today (the EU pledged big sums of money to developing countries to fight climate change and called for 30% reduction of emissions by 2020), I’ve also heard that the Bella Center, where the negotiations are being conducted, has turned into a cesspool of rumors -- mostly negative -- about what kind of deal could emerge out of Copenhagen.
Read MoreToday I was baptized into the world of COP 15.
I stood amongst the many activists - flyers in hand - attempting to deliver our message.
Read MoreI spent today hanging out with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Well, to be a bit more precise, I spent the day hanging out with a life size, cardboard cutout of the movie star turned Governor of California.
Read MoreThe deal being discussed in Denmark right now, in the name of climate change, is actually a framework for truth in advertising on a global economic scale. Think FASB on steroids.
Read MoreI know my way around Copenhagen after only a few days here – which I consider an accomplishment for someone who is directionally challenged.
Read MoreToday was the launch of our “side events,” or briefings, that are conducted to inform COP15 attendees of our message.
Our message being that though it may seem that the last 8 years the U.S. has been absent in terms of climate change action – the truth is that at the state level bold action is being taken.
Read MoreI love cold weather. I feel good in cold weather. But not too cold. So as I prepared to go to Copenhagen in December I was warned.
Read MoreMy wife’s grandmother, Sadie, will turn 103 next month.
Of all the things that might concern or interest her, she lay awake the other night worried that world leaders won’t solve the climate crisis before it's too late.
Read MoreI have never been to a global event in my life. I’m not really sure what makes something count as a global event – the Olympics? But from my few initial moments arriving in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 15) it was clear that I was dragging my bags through the airport to be a part of something unprecedented, something that could positively alter the course of our lives and our planet. And yet in spite of that idea, a familiar knot of cynicism and defeat was beginning to creep into my stomach.
Read MoreIt is seventeen hundred hours (or as we say in the states - five in the evening) at the Bella Center and the sun has already set so it is as dark as night, the air is brisk and there is still a long line of people waiting to register for COP 15 and receive their credentials.
Read MoreStrolling the streets of Copenhagen on Sunday, December 6th feels very similar to the last time I was in Copenhagen, some years ago.
Read MoreTens of thousands of modern-day crusaders, charlatans, Nobel laureates, CEOs, quick-buck artists, earnest politicians, and assorted movie extras of every conceivable socio-political-ethnic-economic background will descend on Copenhagen for the next three weeks to participate in an orgy of carbon-bashing and flag-waving.
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