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'Generation C' - what's really on their minds?

Posted by jossc — 4 December 2007 at 7:18pm - Comments

Habbo - global warming is bad

Yes, it's bad. But there's a whole lot us Habbos can do about it!

According to conventional wisdom (oh all right the tabloid press to be more precise) all teenagers ever think about are themselves. So it may come as a surprise that a global survey of almost 50,000 teens released today reveals that they have many other concerns - and that they worry more about dangerous greenhouse gases than drugs, violence or war.

Article tagged as: bali, climate change, COP, UN

Crucial UN climate conference gets underway in Bali

Posted by jossc — 3 December 2007 at 2:24pm - Comments

melting iceberg (copywrite nasa)

If a week is a long time in politics, then is two weeks long enough for world leaders to finally get to grips with the single biggest challenge we all face - limiting the effects of global climate change?

The answer has to be yes, if only because the consequences of any other outcome would be unthinkable. The start of the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference (otherwise known as COP 13) in Bali today coincides with alarming reports that the tropical belt that girdles the Earth's equator is expanding - pushing its boundaries out towards the poles at a rate not predicted by current computer models, which anticipated such developments only towards the end of this century.

Article tagged as: bali, climate change, COP, UN

A meeting with the UN, or how Greenpeace supporters make all the difference

Posted by bex — 21 September 2007 at 10:22am - Comments

From our Making Waves blog:


Yesterday, a Greenpeace delegation met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Here's a first hand account from Greenpeace Executive Director, Gerd Leipold:


It's official. You, our supporters, make all the difference. Today I met with the world’s highest official – Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations. Moon, a career diplomat, surprised me earlier this year when he put climate change at the top of his agenda. He has stressed the links between climate change and security. He clearly means it. Moon was composed and charming with a message determined and clear: We have the technology and the resources to fight climate change. We even have a real sense of urgency - as the impacts of climate change are starting to be felt around the world. What is lacking is political will. “We need you, Greenpeace, to mobilize public opinion and enable politicians to do the right thing.” - Are you ready? We are.
Article tagged as: ban ki-moon, climate change, UN

Wake up and smell the carbon

Posted by bex — 4 May 2007 at 2:29pm - Comments

Greenland glacier

Sometimes world-changing pronouncements aren’t delivered on stone tablets accompanied by thunder bolts, but in densely written reports, packed with charts, footnotes and appendices.

Article tagged as: CHP, climate change, IPCC, science, solutions, UN

Iceland sinks UN moratorium on bottom trawling

Posted by jamie — 24 November 2006 at 7:04pm - Comments

The news that the UN moratorium on bottom trawling has sunk to the metaphorical, erm, bottom is grim enough but when you hear that it was all down to one country, it's just bloody depressing. And the culprit? Step forward Iceland, proud whaling nation and now ocean floor destroyer. Thanks guys.

But I can't put it better than Adele over on the Making Waves blog. There's real rage for you.

Article tagged as: bottom trawling, iceland, moratorium, oceans, UN

Climate change: a burden Africa cannot afford

Posted by bex — 6 July 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Desertification in Mauritius


Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods that depend on the natural environment. In Africa, this means nearly everyone.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is unequivocal: climate change will have the biggest impact on the communities least able to respond to it.

Article tagged as: africa, agriculture, climate change, development, farming, food, impacts, IPCC, kyoto protocol, mozambique, UN

World Climate Change Conference 2003

Posted by bex — 4 October 2003 at 8:00am - Comments
Greenpeace activists launch a banner at the World Climate Change Conference in Moscow

Greenpeace activists launch a banner at the World Climate Change Conference in Moscow

Article tagged as: climate change, esso, hachette, impacts, IPCC, kyoto protocol, russia, stop esso, UN

Climate alarm - time to get serious

Posted by bex — 23 July 2001 at 8:00am - Comments
sounding the climate alarm

sounding the climate alarm

Sirens set off by Greenpeace activists outside the United Nations climate conference sounded the alarm - it is time for ministers to start talking. Activists outside the conference unfurled a banner which read "Australia, Canada, USA - Climate Criminals" while inside Australia and Canada were doing their best to either stall or vandalise the Kyoto Protocol and frustrate attempts to combat climate change.

"It's desperation time for the world's climate and this conference," said Steve Sawyer, Greenpeace climate campaigner.

Article tagged as: australia, canada, climate change, international policy, kyoto protocol, UN
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