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In the early hours before an agreement was made in Cancun toward a global deal to combat climate change, one country, Bolivia, repeatedly stood up to voice its opposition to the process. The COP’s president, Patricia Espinosa of Mexico, gaveled down Bolivia and a deal was ultimately approved. Now …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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It appears many of the world’s nations are ready to cautiously dip their toes back into the realm of international talks–additional climate negotiations have just been added in Bonn, Germany. And what’s on the agenda? Well, pretty much the agenda. The agenda’s on the agenda. Without going further into a ‘Whos on First?’ routine, suffice to say that it appears the primary thrust of these additional conference dates will be determining the schedule and content for international climate talks for the rest of the year. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Krus Krug

Climate talks may be moving forward only in fits and starts at Copenhagen, but on Saturday afternoon a march of thousands proceeded with determined speed to the main negotiating hall, the Bella Center. Marchers held aloft enormous emergency-yellow signs, with slogans like “Act Now,” “There is no Planet B,” and “Change the Politics Not the Climate.” Demonstrators in polar bear costumes carried a banner that read “Save My Kids” and Greenpeace ferried an enormous inflatable snowman along the city’s prim streets as people cheered from windows.

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This post, written by Kate Sheppard, originally appeared on Mother Jones

The Bella Center, the venue hosting the Copenhagen climate negotiations, is overflowing with advocates seeking action on climate change. But their opponents have turned out in force too. They’re a little harder to identify than, say, the activists walking around dressed as trees. But working the crowds are some of the biggest Read the full story on TreeHugger

Activists stage a “die-in” in San Francisco

Today, in cities across the country and one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, climate activists held demonstrations and workshops to bring urgent attention to issue of climate change. The events, known collectively as N30, coincided with the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protest in Seattle in 1999, where activists nearly shut down the city and changed the tenor of international trade talks forever. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Copenhagen is weeks away and it’s clear that our leaders need to keep hearing from us that now is the time for real action on climate change. 350.org is organizing candlelight vigils in the middle of the climate negotiations, right after President Obama visits Copenhagen and addresses the world. 350.org is asking people to select an iconic place in their community and gather family, friends and neighbors to send a message. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Editor’s Note: This post is written by Andrew Winston, a globally recognized expert on how businesses can profit from thinking green and the co-author of the best-seller Green to Gold.

Why Going Green—and the Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen—Matter Now More than Ever

For the past few years, the business world has been swept up in a green wave—a rising tide of interest and concern about environmental issues. The Great Recession has not stopped the pressure pushing this wave. Environmental …Read the full story on TreeHugger

As the climate negotiations in Barcelona continue this week, issues of social justice and economic equity are at the forefront. A group of African nations walked out today, supported by Bolivia, Benin and Venezuela, over issues of funding and the weak emissions reduction targets set by developed countries. The arguments about fairness from developing countries, which will be disproportionally affected by climate change, are clear when you look at the Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cutting Remarks
Yesterday, at a mock trial that found the U.S. and other wealthy nations responsible for climate change, China was all but absent.

But in the real world of climate negotiations, China was critical of developed countries’ insistence that it pull its weight in the effort to keep global temperatures down. The AP reports that China’s chief climate negotiator Y…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Environmentalists are all a flutter with the news that President Obama brought his lead negotiator on climate change, Todd Stern, with him on his trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the 2016 Summer Olympics in his hometown of Chicago. The pairing raises the question that many greens have been asking for months: Will Obama personally attend the make-or-break climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December?…Read the full story on TreeHugger