Monthly Archives: June 2009

27 Jun

The essentials in Copenhagen

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… People who looked at this item also looked at… Top 5 inspiration sources Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and [...]
16 Jun

Breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

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, [...]
06 Jun

HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist

‘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 [...]
01 Jun

Good 50×70 poster contest: Climate Change

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… People who looked at this item also looked at… COP15 in retrospect, and our common future Climate [...]
01 Jun

Using Human Rights Law to Address Climate Change

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 [...]