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 Stories About: Bali 07 AND climate AND energy AND politics AND international politics AND climate change mitigation
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Where do we go from here? The Bali meeting, and the lessons learned |
Tom Athanasiou |
17 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It's important, this time, to draw conclusions, and to do so publicly. Because Bali has taken us -- barely and painfully -- over a line and into a new and even more difficult level in the climate game we'll be playing for the rest of our lives. In fact, it's not too much to say that, with the realizations of the last year and their culmination at the 13th Conference of Parties, the game has, finally, belatedly, begun in earnest. First up, we knew going into Bal ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, politics, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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The youth are back and badder than ever The real story at Bali |
Youth Movement |
06 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In 2005, at the U.N.'s Montreal Climate Negotiations, a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference, desperate to make sure that the world heard their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for people involved in the youth climate movement, and many date its launch to that time. In a conference notable for acronyms and obscure policy jargon, the youth activism was like a breath of fresh air. While delegates bemoaned th ... |
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| Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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