The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) has just ended at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. Even while world leaders were discussing how to curb demand for fossil energy the fight for control of supply of them continued unabated. On the Iran-Iraq border the two countries are moving troops around to impress each…
Month: December 2009
“The Risk of Caution” by Joachim Spangenberg
The second of three videos: Dr. Joachim Spangenberg, Vice Chairman of the sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V. (SERI), speaks at “Climate change and conflict – The Danger of future wars”, Klimaforum09 Sunday the 13th of December 2009. The video is of the first half of his presentation only (the rest I got on audio…
Jürgen Scheffran at Klimaforum09
I attended “Climate change and conflict – The Danger of future wars”, Klimaforum09 Sunday the 13th of December 2009. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Institute for geography in the KlimaCampus at University Hamburg, Germany and The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) made the first presentation. The event had an initial resource…
Nnimmo Bassey: “Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole”
The alternative to the official UN COP15 summit is called Klimaforum09 – free, open for all and packed with interesting speaks, workshops and exhibitions. It opened this Monday, the 7th of December, simultaneously with COP15. The main attraction was, hands down, Naomi Klein. She is also getting the attention on the website so far: Last…