Why Does Poznan Matter? - Tan Copsey | Worldchanging

Why Does Poznan Matter?
UN-led climate-change talks in Poland this week are a key step in one of the most important – and complex – negotiations the world has ever seen.

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Update from Poznan - Tan Copsey | Celsias.com

Update from Poznan
A quick update from the final days of the global climate negotiations here in Poznan. United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon opened the high level segment of the event this morning, as delegates sort to salvage something from an intensely disappointing two weeks.

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A bleak week in Poznan - Tan Copsey | Guardian Weekly

A bleak week in Poznan
Climate change negotiations taking place in Poland last week ended in disappointment for many hoping for a global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. Tan Copsey shares his impressions of the event, which intended but failed to secure a green deal ahead of the 2009 UN conference in Copenhagen.

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The third oil shock -Tan Copsey | chinadialogue

The third oil shock
Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency, says high energy prices are here to stay and tackling climate change requires a paradigm shift in the power sector. Tan Copsey reports.

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Idle Environmentalists Get Busy in Turkey - Tan Copsey | Celsias.com

Idle Environmentalists Get Busy in Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attacked environmental protesters in the country describing them as ‘idle'. After proclaiming himself to be a ‘real environmentalist', referencing Turkish ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, he went on to claim that "being an environmentalist is something they (protesters) do to pass their free

The McConnell microcosm: why it’s hard to change the Beltway - Tan Copsey | open Democracy News Analysis

The McConnell microcosm: why it’s hard to change the Beltway
Kentucky's Republican senator Mitch McConnell has come out strongly against proposed climate change legislation at a time when real progress on the issue in Congress seems probable. In a piece written for The Hill he argues that: Now is the time to be considering, and approving, legislation that would allow Americans to increase energy production within our own borders, and to accelerate the process of moving to clean nuclear energy. Now is the time to do something about $4.00 a gallon gasoline, not something that would cost us $6.00 a gallon gas down the road.