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?
Climate Action Network - Copenhagen Climate Negotiation News Update: Today@COP15 — Day 10
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.
