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Entries from June 2009

The essentials in Copenhagen

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Rather than getting every small detail of a new global climate treaty done in Copenhagen, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer hopes the conference will reach agreements on four political essentials.
Read more at COP15…

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Politics & International Relations

Breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

With six months left to the Copenhagen climate negotiations the world faces multiple crises. All are a direct or indirect result of an economic policy that stimulates value creation on the short term with disastrous effects on the medium or long term. Sustainable development forms the core of the solutions for these crises.
Between 1992, when [...]

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Politics & International Relations

HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments

‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home.
Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets out to shift [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Photography & journalism · Politics & International Relations · Society · Sustainable Development · World

Good 50×70 poster contest: Climate Change

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Ever thought you can’t combine a serious topic like climate change and biodiversity with beautiful design? Here’s the proof you can!
Good 50×70 called out a poster design contest on climate change. Click here to watch the results…

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Design & Technology

Using Human Rights Law to Address Climate Change

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

What are the legal and human rights implications of climate change?
As the evidence becomes stronger and the science more serious, people in countries, companies, institutions and professions everywhere are taking up the issue of climate change and sounding the alarm.
Among these concerned global citizens are lawyers and legal professionals. To gather this community together, law [...]

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Human Rights