Tag: climate change

The COA bike path to Copenhagen

COA Admin September 30, 2009 1 Comment
Welcome COA community, family, and friends. Earth in Brackets is now hosting the College of the Atlantic delegation that will participate in the United Nations Climate Change negotiations this coming December in Copenhagen, Denmark. The outcome of the agreement in Copenhagen will determine if the world transitions to clean energy; and moves forward to a cleaner, healthier and independent future...

State of play.

COA Admin December 16, 2008 0 Comments
COP14 is over, but what exactly does that mean? It means we are way behind. The most recent milestone of international climate negotiations was the development of the "Bali Action Plan" at COP13 last year. This document established a framework from which climate negotiations would proceed during the following 24 months leading up to Copenhagen. Not much has happened since then. We are no nearer a...

The waiting game.

COA Admin December 12, 2008 1 Comment
Sitting here in the plenary hall - about 30 people in the room. Not much going on. It's 9pm and we haven't even started the substantive work that was supposed to happen today. Just speeches. The COP and CMP decisions still need to be approved. I doubt this will be finalized tonight, but will anybody care enough to come back in the morning? The talks in Poznan have ended with a resounding "thud"....

Hmmm…

COA Admin December 11, 2008 0 Comments
Some of these ministerial statements are pretty impressive! I'm feeling a bit better. The worst of the Umbrella Group (Australia, Canada, Japan, US) had me worried and depressed for a bit, but so many other countries get it and are holding the developed countries accountable. To see it all go down, check out: copportal1.man.poznan.pl/ They have live streams as well as archived footage. Pretty...

Hope.

COA Admin December 11, 2008 0 Comments
Again, the youth continue to give me hope. Our latest campaign - the Survival Campaign - has exceeded our wildest expectations. Visit 350.org/survival to be a part of it. Essentially we are asking countries to commit to the principle of safeguarding the survival of all countries and peoples. While not all countries have signed on (the US for example), we have received incredible support from...