2009-12-18 17:07
While negotiations in support of REDD are reported to have  moved forward in the weeks leading up to today, they were  overshadowed this morning by the drama emerging as world leaders struggled to find consensus on a political deal that will allow progress toward a climate action treaty. Upon arrival in Copenhagen today, President Barak Obama held early morning meetings with [...]

One of the more interesting things I have seen at the COP15 is an exhibit of a patented process for the production of pulp and paper made from Red Algae (l. Gracilaria and l. Gelidium elegans) developed by a company named Pegasus Research Inc. 

2009-12-16 17:25
The Danish Government in cooperation with the Danish NGO-network Peoples’ Climate Action (PCA) is organizing an alternative conference venue at Forum Copenhagen.

With leaders from 192 due to arrive over the final three days of the summit security has been tightened outside the Bella Center in anticipation of protests by civil society groups who are angry with having been barred from entry during the high level phase in the negotiations. Danish Police were out in full force [...]

2009-12-14 09:59
COPENHAGEN ON MY MIND – REDUCING DIGITAL MEDIA TREE-WASH Most people will tell you that they care about saving our forests, but they tend to be uninformed or misinformed when it comes to knowing the causes of deforestation or some of the places being affected most significantly by land use change that kills trees, pollutes rivers [...]

2009-12-11 02:25
MOSCOW – The Straits Times reports that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the climate conference in Copenhagen on December 17-18. According to the Kremlin "The president of the Russian Federation will participate in a meeting of heads of state and government within the framework of the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen." [...]