There is a Deal in Copenhagen

onDec 18, 2009 @ 14:02 PST

UPDATE: Ignore this

It’s sure to be derided as inadequate – it’s sure to BE inadequate if you were hoping for something that would actually solve the problem – but there are some great financing elements, and there will be more to come ….

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One thing for sure: President Obama passed through the press conference room – a secure route to the building exit – and said something that sounded like, “It’s time to go home.” He also shook hands with the incredibly cute young Danish women who have been working in the media centre, setting off a series of whoops and screams.

Then he turned up, a disembodied voice on a Whitehouse feed, having a cosy press conference with the Whitehouse press corps, declaring that a deal is in hand and that it will get us moving in the right direction. If Canada just stopped moving in the WRONG direction, that would be progress.

By Richard Littlemore

uk/Tory Leadership Contender Robert Jenrick’s Pro-Coal and Anti-Net Zero Record

ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright

onJul 25, 2024 @ 07:44 PDT

The Conservative candidate has changed his tune on climate action, recently attacking Labour’s net zero policies and arguing for new fossil fuel extraction.

Dutch and U.S. Climate Deniers Join Forces as Europe Shifts to the Right

ByNina Tea Zibetti, Alexander Beunder, Merel de Buck and Jilles Mast

onJul 24, 2024 @ 22:00 PDT

Clintel’s fifth anniversary conference in town outside Amsterdam offers a glimpse of the group’s transatlantic ties.

uk/Labour Urged to Release Cumbria Coal Mine Documents by Ex-Net Zero Tsar

ByPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin

onJul 24, 2024 @ 07:07 PDT

The government is being taken to court for failing to publish the evidence provided to ministers before they backed the controversial scheme.

Enquête : Les initiatives de l’industrie de l’aquaculture visant à promouvoir des pêcheries durables en Afrique de l’Ouest sont entachées de « conflits d’intérêts massifs »

ByBrigitte Wear, Hazel Healy and Michaela Herrmann

onJul 23, 2024 @ 04:04 PDT

Les responsables de campagne critiquent des programmes volontaires « fortement défectueux », tandis que l’analyse de DeSmog révèle l'absence de représentation de la société civile ou des communautés locales affectées par les dommages causés par l’industrie des farines et huiles de poisson.

Series: Spotlight on Industrial Aquaculture