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Dear friend, I am writing to you again from Copenhagen, where the conference has been reverberating for days with the brave voices of island leaders. The island leaders, from Tuvalu to the Maldives, Grenada to Kiribati, are pleading for serious climate action from developed and developing countries alike. They rightly point out that the Continue Reading →
Day 10: Tuvalu looks for lifeboats, delegates suffer from lack of sleep and John Prescott steps in
Tuvalu: “I have a feeling of dread that we are on the Titanic and sinking fast, but we can’t get the lifeboats because the president says we don’t need lifeboats.” Photograph: Heribert Proepper/AP
Well, this does not look like a very promising start to the day. There is growing nervousness here – but among developing countries especially – at the failure to produce a definitive written draft of a deal in time for the leaders who are now starting to trickle in.
Climate summit must close loopholes or greenhouse gases may increase by 10% in 2020 compared with 1990 levels, says Friends of the Earth
A thermoelectric power station in Moscow. Russia is one of the countries with millions of unused carbon pollution permits since the collapse of its heavy industry. Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA
Four major loopholes in the Copenhagen draft texts could see carbon emissions increase by 2020, rather than plunge as scientists say must happen to avert dangerous global warming. That is the conclusion of a new analysis by Friends of the Earth, who argue the loopholes would cause greenhouse gases to rise by 10% by 2020, compared with 1990 levels, if they are not closed in the final four days of negotiations at the UN summit.
Danish prime minister to take over role as unexpected move cited as ‘procedural
Connie Hedegaard resigned unexpectedly today as president of the Copenhagen summit. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP
The president of the UN climate conference president, Connie Hedegaard, unexpectedly resigned this morning. She is to be replaced by the Danish premier.
Security intensifies ahead of mass action to invade summit as 115 world leaders arrive for high-level talks
John Vidal and Jonathan Watts in Copenhagen
UN and Danish national flags together with the flag of the UN Climate Change Conference in front of the Bella centre. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
Friends of the Earth international, Avaaz, Tck Tck Tck and other mainstream environment coalition groups were refused entry to the Copenhagen conference centre this morning without being given any reason.
His book Heaven and Earth has fuelled sceptics the world over, but when I talked to Professor Plimer he sidestepped vital points
Ian Plimer at the Copenhagen conference with his book Heaven and Earth. Photograph: Jens Dige/AP
A few days ago I interviewed the prominent climate change sceptic Professor Ian Plimer for a piece ahead of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Very little of our half-hour conversation made it into the final story but it was a revealing interview. This blog is an attempt to put some of what we talked about on the record.
It is important to do so, because the Australian mining geologist’s book Heaven and Earth – on what he calls the “missing science” of global warming – has proved extremely popular. It has been reprinted six times in the UK since its publication in March and has sold more than 30,000 copies in Australia. In July, the Spectator ran a fawning cover feature about the book under the headline “Relax: global warming is all a myth”.