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COP15

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

From today onwards, I will be reporting on the UN Climate Conference, COP15, in Copenhagen, representing the WSC-SD.
To give a kick-start, below is the first article.
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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Economic Development · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Science · Society · Sustainable Development · World · Youth

How on earth do we want to live together?

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, on October 15th 2009, more then 13,000 bloggers all over the world are writing about “Climate Change”, the topic of the 2009 Blog Action Day.

Lately, a couple of interesting articles have caught my attention. They all seem to tell a story of a Great Story, they all seem to put our human race and [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Economic Development · Globalization & Global Culture · Inspiration · Society · Sustainable Development · World

Climate Collaboratorium: Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Climate Change Issues

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Global climate change is perhaps the most pressing and important problem currently facing humanity. It is also unique by virtue of being a truly systemic problem of vast complexity: it affects every one of us, and is directly affected by every one of our actions. Like nothing else, dealing with climate change calls upon us [...]

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Tags: Climate & Energy · Design & Technology · Globalization & Global Culture · World

Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up?

July 12th, 2009 · No Comments

G8 leaders have come out with a land mark climate change agreement on the back of meetings in L’Aquila in Italy (read the full communiqué here).
Is this good news? In a word, yes.
Is it jump for joy and do an embarrassing dance kinda news? In another word, no.
Why? Well, the answer lies in the numbers.
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Tags: Climate & Energy · Globalization & Global Culture · World

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