Posts Tagged ‘copenhagen’

Wen Jiabao’s Speech at COP15.

Friday, December 18, 2009 11:29 Comments Off

Typically I would not report the work of someone else in full, but in this case I think an exception should be made: Prime Minister Rasmussen, Dear Colleagues, At this very moment, billions of people across the world are following closely what is happening here in Copenhagen. The will that we express and the commitments [...]

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Off to Copenhagen..

Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:15 Comments Off

Even with the recent news that the power to be have decided to transform the Copenhagen session to COP-Lite being a let down (I wasn’t surprised.. just arg..) , I am fortunate that for the early part of next week I will be participating at the pre-COP Copenhagen Business School conference Sustainable Leadership in the [...]

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Understanding China’s Position on Climate Change, and Repositioning Global Discussions

Thursday, November 19, 2009 23:58 1 Comment

Regardless of whether you believe COP15 still has hope, or is a predetermined failure, the fact is that in about 3 weeks a large number of scientists, environmentalists, policy makers, and cleantech funds are going to be in Copenhagen… and the world will be watching. Even prior to the recent announcements from Singapore though, many [...]

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Beijing Panel Discussion: Copenhagen Or Bust?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 22:39 Comments Off

Tuesday of next week, the Foreign Corespondents Club of Beijing will be hosting an event not to be missed. U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have agreed that they have run out of time to forge a treaty on greenhouse gas reductions at next month’s global warming summit in Copenhagen. The summit’s chairman, [...]

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COP15 Doesn’t Matter, but Cleantech will Come Out ok.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:05 Comments Off

…. the COP15 talks, which will try to establish a global action plan for mitigating carbon emissions, are expected to have a positive impact on the global clean technology sector even without a comprehensive global agreement necessarily being reached A few issues with the above quote, from a recent Cleantech Press Release: 1) Are we [...]

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WWF China’s Yang Fuqiang on Copenhagen

Friday, November 13, 2009 13:33 Comments Off

With less than a month to go to COP 15, Alex Pasternack at Treehugger has loaded a very interesting dialogue he recently had with Yang Fuqiang of WWF. See Part 1 and Part 2 Perhaps one of the most experienced persons on the issues, in China, his background lends his thoughts significant weight: For more [...]

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