Fossil of the Day Awards
Will the doors slam shut at this highest-profile climate negotiations in Copenhagen this week...
Fossil of the Day Awards
Simple arithmetic: Low mitigation ambition plus inadequate adaptation support for developing countries results in unavoidable loss, damage and suffering for the most vulnerable...
Fossil of the Day Awards
Remember the G8 summit in L’Aquila this year? World leaders proudly offered US$20 billion to tackle the global food crisis. Subsequently it was reported that only US$3 billion was going to be ‘new’ money. The rest had already been committed or was to be handed out as loans. This...
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
As delegates return to the Bella Center today, they are joined by ministers and subsequently by heads of state/government. What issues should they focus on to achieve a fair, ambitious, binding and timely deal? ECO is glad you asked, because we have some very clear suggestions...
Ralph Westera
Ralph Westera
Forget Canada and the US! The World should sign the agreement they need and want. Let the US and Canada live with the consequences as pariah states: the Real World can move into the future they are all waiting for, and these two dinosaurs can see if they can do without us.

Wallowing in their fantasy world of naked short-selling, speculative ... See Morefinance and Ponzi schemes, they have little to offer besides money, and they will not have much of that in the near future. These two kakistocracies will soon be begging to make a deal ... with the very countries they have been courting: China, India, Brazil.

A bad deal is worse than no deal, so let the rest of us write the deal we need. The future is ours if we stand together and make it happen!
December 14, 2009 at 2:54am
Fossil of the Day Awards
ECO is pleased to report that after years of searching, long term funding for climate finance has been found! But first we must pry it out of the hands of big oil and coal companies. G20 nations in Pittsburgh, at the urging of the US, pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies...
Fossil of the Day Awards
As the hallways of the Bella Center emptied on Saturday night, Shared Vision draft text negotiators and the Chair worked through the late hours. After three days of closed meetings, they finally managed to get through their first reading of the 32-paragraph text...
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
ECO had expected more of the EU this week...
Fossil of the Day Awards
Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponDigg this!Share this on RedditShare this on del.icio.usSubscribe to the comments for this post?
Fossil of the Day Awards
Upon arriving in Copenhagen, US Special Envoy on Climate Todd Stern said: “Emissions are emissions. You’ve just got to do the math. If...