Some of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world called for help this week at a meeting organized by the Maldives, a member of the Climate Neutral Network. Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Kiribati, Barbados, Bhutan, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania, popularly known as the V11, are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but [...]
Tagged : Adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Refugees, COP15
Bob Dylan’s powerful, prophetic song, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, is set to become the unofficial soundtrack to the Copenhagen climate talks . Copenhagen, 26 November 2009 – Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature by Mark Edwards and Bob Dylan will be released on DVD at the opening of the Hard Rain exhibition in [...]
Tagged : Climate Change, COP15
To raise popular awareness about climate change Klimaforum09 launches a new campaign presenting the issue as a good versus evil battle of superheroes. . By Richard Steed Klimaforum09 launches an exciting new viral video campaign. The new videos presenting climate change as a good versus evil battle of superheroes is being released ahead of the [...]
Tagged : Climate Change, COP15, Video
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer – Thu Nov 26, 5:57 am ET . WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade — despite resistance in Congress over higher costs — when he travels to a major climate conference [...]
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ASSAB, 5 May 2009 (IRIN) – The old fisherman leaned heavily on his walking stick and sighed. For the first time in 50 years, the sea, the winds and the weather in Edi village, in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea – his trusted allies in making a living – are baffling him. “It [...]
Tagged : Adaptation, Climate Change, COP15