President Obama arrives in Copenhagen. Heads of nation states meet behind closed doors to iron out an agreement. Late in the day President Obama announces "a meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" is reached by major nations.
CBS News - President Obama arrived at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen to cut a climate deal, but as Shiela MacVicar reports, no political agreement has been met.
Clean Skies - President Barack Obama spoke on the last day of climate talks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The President called on all major economies to put forward decisive national actions that will reduce their emissions and turn the corner on climate change.
COP15 - Watch highlights from day 12 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) - recorded on December 18, 2009
Clean Skies - Pres. Barack Obama concludes international climate talks in Copenhagen with a non-binding agreement between the U.S., China, India, Brazil, and South Africa to curb climate change. "Transparency, mitigation, and finance" form the basis of the common approach each nation embraced during negotiations. Obama calls the deal "the beginning of a new era of international action."
NBC News - The full version of Obama's speech in Copenhagen.
Heads of State continue arriving and delivering their thoughts on Copenhagen. NGO participation in negotiations is significantly limited. China and U.S. square off. Hillary Rodham Clinton announces U.S. support for a joint $100B global climate change fund.
COP15 - Watch highlights from day 11 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) - recorded on December 17, 2009.
Clean Skies - As world climate talks wind down in Copenhagen, U.S and Chinese negotiators are facing off in a game of chicken, waiting to see who will give in on a major issue: allowing China to independently monitor its carbon cutting actions under a new treaty.
EUXTV - One day before the arrival of US President Barack Obama, the United Nations on Thursday decided to restrict access to the global climate talks in Copenhagen for non-governmental organisations and it confronted journalists with additional security.
Guardian UK - Crunch time in Copenhagen. Environment editor John Vidal gives us his view on the last-ditch climate talks, and hears from three voices, including Radiohead's Thom Yorke
Grist - Radiohead's Thom Yorke Magically Appears at Climate Talks. Radiohead's Thom Yorke showed up at the last minute at the climate talks in Copenhagen. He wanted to see what was happening firsthand, especially since NGOs have been taken out of the Bella Center, where the talks are being held.
Climate Conference Connie Hedegaard resigns, John Kerry talks about U.S. climate policy and the need for success in Copenhagen, Sir Richard Branson offers his take on the opportunity for airlines, protests and sit-ins intensify.
COP15 - Watch Highlights from day 10 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) - recorded on December 16, 2009
Clean Skies - Kerry: Countries Must Work Harder for Copenhagen Negotiations. The divide between developed and developing nations is proving difficult to bridge in Copenhagen's climate talks, though some of the biggest names at the summit say an international deal is still within reach.
Clean Skies - Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin, spoke to Clean Skies News about what he would like to see with airline emissions and his impression of the United Nations Climate Change Conference happening in Copenhagen, Denmark.
David Gillette explains the high-level negotiations and ongoing challenges at COP15 - in illustrated essay format.
France24 - Disagreements persisted at Copenhagen as Danish chair of the talks, Connie Hedegaard, stepped down, and Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen took over. With two days left, can the delegates reach an agreement?
EUXTV - Yvo de Boer, the chairman of the United Nations panel on climate change, addresses members of the activist NGO Friends of the Earth to explain to them the upcoming security issues and why the size of the Bella Center necessarily limits the number of people who can attend the rest of the COP15.
EUXTV - Danish police on Wednesday kept thousands of protesters from entering the venue where the United Nations climate talks being held.
Guardian UK - Copenhagen police tackle 4,000-strong climate protest. On a day when NGOs were given limited access to the Copenhagen summit, protesters marched on the Bella centre to reclaim the climate debate back to the people most affected.
Treehugger - As world leaders prepared to pose for a group portrait in the Bella Center's plenary hall, a crowd of youth, activists, indigenous peoples, and perhaps some delegates, began a chant of Climate Justice Now! and Reclaim Power! in the middle of the Bella Center where the Copenhagen Climate Talks are being held. Instantly surrounded by cameras and media, the group began a march out of the center towards the gates of the building where as many as 10,000 people are planning to meet them in what organizers are calling the Reclaim Power action.
CYDCopenhagen - December 16th, 2009, thousands gather to participate in the Reclaim Power march in Copenhagen Denmark. The idea behind the march is to meet delegates who were walking out from the Bella Center, the location of the United Nation's Climate Change Conference (COP15), and host a people's assembly outside. The peaceful march, an act of civil disobedience, turned violent when police attacked protestors pushing to get over the Bella Center fence to meet with delegates from the walk out.
SustainUS - International Youth Sit-In at Bella Center in Copenhagen for a fair, ambitious, and legally binding climate treaty.
SustainUS - Dessima Williams, chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), recounts a story of how in 1995 here in Copenhagen at the World Forum on Social Development she and Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathaai among others held a sit-in for days.
Gopal Dayaneni @ People's Assembly, Dec 16th - Copenhagen. After marching in the cold and snow, thousands reached the gates of the Bella Center where the Climate Summit was being held and where hundreds of accredited delegates were denied entry. Met by police, dogs, multiple fences and moats, a people's assembly was held in the street. Here, Gopal describes the sit ins, marches, demonstrations happening inside the Summit.
COP15 - Watch highlights from day 9 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) - recorded on December 15, 2009
Clean Skies - Copenhagen Welcomes More World Leaders. Updates from day 9 of U.N. climate talks, where U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern talks emissions taxes, European Union Commissioner Stavros Dimas expresses dislike for the Kyoto Protocol, and an appearance is made by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
David Gillette observes the start of the high-level negotiations at COP15 - in illustrated essay format.
France24 - With government ministers taking part in the discussions, there was a change in pace at the Copenhagen summit Tuesday. But will it be enough for refugees of climate change?
Circle of Blue - Copenhagen: Taking the risk to define a zero carbon, clean energy future. Copenhagen, host of the UN Climate Change Conference, claims to be one of the world's greenest cities. It has extensive public transportation, a strong bicycle culture and plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 with progressive blueprints to reduce carbon emissions 20 percent by 2015 compared to 2005. Klaus Bondam, mayor of technology and sustainability for the city of Copenhagen, explains the city's ethos, commitment to sustainability and its rapid plans to move from coal to wind energy.
UN Foundation turned 52 of the Climate Board's most compelling stories into an It’s Getting Personal deck of playing cards. The card decks were delivered to every country negotiator, all United Nations and government officials, and hundreds of reporters at the Copenhagen climate conference.
Comedian Eugene Mirman, Grist Special Correspondent in Copenhagen, goes to the Bella Center, the epicenter of the U.N. Climate Conference. He unofficially represents the U.S. in this official U.N. conference center. And because he's Eugene, makes friends doing it.
As we move into this second week of the Copenhagen Climate COP15, we see more and more content presented in the form of movies. Here are some of the links to movies premiered to delegates.
European Environment Agency - One Degree Matters follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland and experience for themselves the dramatic effects of the melting of the ice cap and come to understand the planetary effects of climate change and the impacts these will have on society and the economy. The film brings to the screen the latest science from the Arctic and shows why a further rise in global temperature of one degree matters for the future of humankind.
NRDC - Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification. This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green (September 17, 2009).
Hope in a Changing Climate. The 30-minute version of the film will premiere at COP15 at the Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen on December 17th.
(Hope in a Changing Climate is provided in High Definition. To watch a lower-bandwidth version of the film, de-select the "HD" button on right-hand side of the playbar.)
WeForest Video - Narrated by Stephen Fry. Are you worried about climate change? What if we could actually do something really effective right now to halt it? Watch this how to video and share it with people you care about.
France24 - Representatives of African nations briefly stormed out of talks at the Bella Centre on Monday, while protestors on the streets of Copenhagen called for climate justice.
David Gillette returns to the Bella Center for the final week of COP15 after an active weekend in Copenhagen.
Videos from the Climate Change summit in Copenhagen (December 12-13, 2009) - Tuvalu makes an impassioned plea for action, a peaceful protest turns violent then peaceful again, Desmond Tutu calls on leaders to take real action on climate change. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu at Bright Green.
Clean Skies Sunday: Copenhagen Talks Week 1. The week began with a controversy of a report of a leaked Danish text, that reportedly would give developed nations more power in how to fight climate change, and leave poorer nations out of the negotiating process. U.N.F.C.C. Exec. Secretary Yvo de Boer, COP15 President Connie Hedegaard denied it. But G-77 and Africa nations cried foul. As the week progressed, so did the negotiations. And by the end of the week a working draft agreement was produced. But can the nations build upon it the second week? de Boer and IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri discuss the first week and their expectations for the second. The U.S. delegation arrived to great fanfare, to explain the American's position on restitution for pollution and the plan to move forward. And finally, DONG energy gives a tour of the world's first commercial size 2nd generation bio-fuels plant, turning biomass into fuel.
TckTckTck - On the weekend of December 11-13, people around the world took action on climate change. We held over 3,000 events: massive marches in Copenhagen and other cities, signing walls in world capitals, beautiful candlelight vigils in our communities, and church bells ringing out around the world. (See also A troika of inspiring videos.
The Uptake - On December 12, 2009, thousands of people representing a broad coalition of climate and environmental organizations, activists, and other civil society organizations marched from Christiansborg Palace Square to the Bella Center. Despite some arrests, the overwhelming sentiment was positive and peaceful, culminating in a massive vigil outside Bella Center.
France24 - Copenhagen: Climate activists from all over the world ... At least 30,000 people demonstrated in Copenhagen Saturday to pressure climate delegates to reach a pact at the UN Copenhagen summit.
EarthKeepers - Environmental reporter, Olivia Zaleski and filmmakers Gabriel London and Peter Buntaine report as violence erupts during an otherwise peaceful protest at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen. An unidentified anarchist group of several hundred--most covering their faces with ski masks and hoods--began to converge, shooting explosives at nearby buildings and police. One homemade cannon launched cobblestones over the crowd, breaking the window of a nearby police van. See related story, Copenhagen Protest Turns Violent, Hundreds Arrested.
Comedian Eugene Mirman, Grist's Special Correspondent in Copenhagen, joined tens of thousands of protesters for the a rally and march during the UN Climate Change Conference. Amidst a colorful display of activism at Parliament Square, Eugene tackles the big issues. He talks to everyone, including protesters protesting the protest. He also speaks with a VERY cute dog.Guardian UK - Copenhagen: A tale of two protests. After tens of thousands of climate change protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen, police make hundreds of arrests.
Reuters - South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers petition to U.N.'s climate chief to press world leaders for a strong deal to curb climate change. Penny Tweedie reports.
Reuters - Climate change protests across globe. Protesters in Asia started a day of action across the globe calling for an end to global warming as climate talks in Copenhagen entered their sixth day. Sonia Legg reports.
U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu at Bright Green Dec 13, 2009 -
On Copenhagen Climate COP15 day 5, NGOs join forces with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the EU pledges billions for developing countries to address climate change, and the world continues to warm.
David Gillette wraps up the first week of the COP15 climate conference.
COP15 Webcast - Lots of enthusiasm and support for the efforts of Bill McKibben through 350.org and Avaaz through tcktcktck and AOSIS. This webcast focuses on building a global climate movement - 12 December actions and beyond - including a weekend vigil with Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson.
350 - VIDEO from AOSIS "Survival Pact" Announcement. Youth gather to support Ambassador Dessima Williams of AOSIS, Selwin Hart of Barbados, and Mohamed Aslam, environment minister of the Maldives as they announce AOSIS's draft text in Copenhagen for a legally binding deal to get to 350ppm.
@AdoptNegotiator - Rosa Kouri, who is tracking the delegation of Canada, provides an overview of the talks on Day 5.
Democracy Now - Author & Journalist Naomi Klein: Fate of Planet Rests on Mass Movement for Climate Justice. Hundreds of activists from across the globe are gathering every day in downtown Copenhagen for the people’s climate summit, the Klimaforum. On Thursday night, Shock Doctrine author and journalist Naomi Klein addressed a packed hall at a panel on ecological debt and climate justice.
ReutersVideo - Billions Pledged for Climate Change - European leaders pledged over 10 billion euros on Friday to developing countries in efforts to win their support for a climate deal in Copenhagen.
The Guardian - Copenhagen: A sherpa's story - 'Nepal is not to blame for this, yet we are the first victims'. Dawa Steven Sherpa explains why dealing with the problems of climate change in Nepal is so important for the world .
As the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen deepen, the videos are becoming more engaging (and plentiful). Here's a good crop of harvested videos summarizing the fourth day of COP15 negotiations.
Clean Skies News - discussion continues over emissions cuts for large countries and climate funding for poorer countries. The Clean Skies team tracks comment from Todd Stern, George Soros and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Climate Action Network (CAN) International - covers the dramatic action of Tuvalu in the negotiation hall, potential loopholes for logging in northern countries, and a focus on the EU, spotlighting finance issues. Experts on todays panel included David Ngatae, Cook Islands Climate Action Network; Saleemul Huq, IIED; and Chris Henschel, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; and Matthias Duwe, CAN Europe.
Reuters - The UN's top envoy on climate Change, Yvo de Boer provides insight on a possible 1.5 degree centigrade deal at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen.
Clean Skies News - Michael Zammit Cutajar, Chairman of the Long Term Cooperative Action Group, talks with Clean Skies in Copenhagen about progress being made on the main issues in Copenhagen: technology, adaption, mitigation and finances. Zammit Cutajar's group was responsible for drafting a new treaty text and for tracking changes made by the UNFCCC parties throughout negotiations. (See related article in today's Washington Post, Key Copenhagen group releases draft climate plan.)
Clean Skies News - Billionaire Financier George Soros talks about his unique plan to pay the costs that come with combating climate change. He says there are vast sums of untapped money in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR's), that can be donated into a "green fund." (See related blog post on climate financing via carbon-financeonline.com.)
David Gillette uncovers a mystery. What are the blinking red lights? Hint: they're very, very important.
GRIST - Comedian Eugene Mirman is Grist's Special Correspondent in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference. Here's his first of many reports from the charming Danish capitol.
Additional resources
Guardian UK: Copenhagen climate conference: best of YouTube. Young delegates, Lumumba Di-Aping Danish text plea and climate sceptic Monckton declares activists 'Hitler youth': YouTube's inside story so far from Copenhagen… Also check out their video series, Faces from the climate frontline which features stories about how climate change is affecting ordinary people around the world.
Clean Skies News Copenhagen Coverage offers summaries and interviews with key players at the COP15 throughout the summit. They also cover related news at home and abroad.
Day three highlights deep rifts between developed and developing countries, the launch of IGBP's climate change index, continued discussion about "Palinclimategateopedgate", and a behind the scenes look at people and activities in Copenhagen.
Clean Skies News summarizes the day's discussions, as well as the eco-friendly biofuel movement in Copenhagen and the police raid on the rooms and belongings of climate talk protesters.
