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Public support for action to protect the planet from dangerous climate change has never been bigger than in recent months. People around the world – as well as many businesses and governments – clearly want to tackle what is probably the biggest challenge of our times.
However, WWF sees a lot of confusion now about the [...]
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The Arctic Tent comes down today, on the same day that President Obama comes to town to join other world leaders in the negotiations. As our last act yesterday in bringing voices of the north to the negotiations, we finished with a flourish. The tent was packed to capacity to hear indigenous people from North America and Europe talk about the impact of change on caribou and reindeer.
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So you’re sitting in front of your computer reading this and wondering “so it looks fine from here, but how many people are really paying attention to what is going on?”
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As we run up these final days of the talks in Copenghagen a lot of our friends in other Organizations are making precision strikes to try and influence various Governments.
Already we have featured an Oxfam push on the Japanese Government, and today we have a push from 1Sky on the US Government:
The U.S. spends more [...]
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We really wonder how they did it in Kyoto, back then, in 1997.
12 years doesn’t seem to be such a long period, but in terms of how we communicate today, a lot has changed. Information travels at the speed of light now. Delegates without laptops are a rare phenomenon. We use email, Skype and SMS. [...]
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It was back in 2006 when Jennifer Morgan, who was then leader of WWF’s global Climate Program, invited friends from organizations such as Greenpeace and Oxfam to a small village not far from Berlin to develop a very important plan.
It was plan on how all these groups could work together to mobilize people around the world in [...]
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We have heard a lot this week from the peoples of the Arctic, those who live with climate change effects as a daily event. Today we heard from people who go even where the peoples of Arctic do not, people who’ve been drawn to the unpopulated areas of the Arctic. As one of these people remarked today, there are no more blank spaces on the map to explore, but there are places seldom visited, and things unknown and unmeasured. In that sense, those who travel in the seldom visited areas of the Arctic can still be considered explorers.
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Today was 2 Poles day at the Arctic Tent – on the surface, there are many similarities between these places defined in the imagination by their ice and snow. It is under the surface that they are different – literally – under the surface of much of the arctic ice is an ocean, while Antarctic ice mostly rests on rock. This is part of the explanation for why warming in the Arctic is faster and has larger local effects.
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The Peoples Orb - a shimmering 20cm silver sphere containing a 350 gigabyte mosaic of stories, voices, images and action on climate change collected from around the world - arrives in Copenhagen.
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Youth climate delegates make a bold statement in Copenhagen, demonstrating their commitment to spreading awareness of effects of climate change.
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