Blog posts tagged "Copenhagen 2009"

November 7, 2011 8:51 am 31 Comments

Out of the smoke and steam of failure, inspired political and scientific leadership are needed if the cause is to be rebooted. Only then will the media begin to revive interest.

December 19, 2009 4:56 pm 24 Comments

A prophetic ad in Copenhagen airport’s terminal 2 – picturing an Obama as old as Nelson Mandela, the caption reads ‘back in 2009 we could have turned the tide on global warming….we didn’t.’ It’s true, the climate change summit failed. On the opening day I talked to the UN chairman of the summit, Yvo de [...]

December 18, 2009 9:24 am 22 Comments

If there is a political deal today at the end of the Copenhagen climate change summit, it will herald the beginnings of an entirely new world order, blogs Jon Snow.

December 15, 2009 9:26 am 18 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the answers to the UK's climate change problems - teenagers....

December 11, 2009 12:14 pm 14 Comments

Climate change: Going green for Christmas is no longer Scrooge-like, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

December 7, 2009 6:37 pm 51 Comments

30,000 people descend on Copenhagen for the meticulously planned climate change summit, blogs Jon Snow. But will it succeed in paving the way for a legally binding treaty on carbon emissions?

12:02 pm 16 Comments

A genuine "liquid bomb threat" or an attempt to sustain a level of anti-terror hysteria to justify expenditure on the "war on terror"? Jon Snow blogs from the airport for Channel 4 News.

December 5, 2009 1:59 pm 6 Comments

Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

December 3, 2009 1:36 pm 7 Comments

I’m very conscious I haven’t blogged for a few days. Partly a consequence of the gigantic scale of Brazil – every night is spent flying and manoeuvring to get somewhere deep into the issues on climate change ahead of Copenhagen. I’m sitting in the early morning sun on the far side of the Amazon (ten [...]

November 30, 2009 11:00 am 59 Comments

I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his [...]