Latest Copenhagen Stories

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1.8 million Hopenhageners have elected their first ambassador, citizen journalist David Kroodsma, who arrived in Copenhagen on Saturday, December 12th with his fold-up bicycle, which he will use to travel the city and report on the progress of talks at the COP15. Kroodsma was selected from a field of candidates worldwide in an online contest where other Hopenhageners voted for the person who would best represent the global Hopenhagen community....

COPENHAGEN, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, 17 December, COP15 negotiations are going to be drawing to a close in Copenhagen. BBC World News and The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) have invited some of the world's leading voices and decision makers to debate one of the most important issues facing mankind. The Greatest Debate on Earth will be broadcast to a worldwide audience. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091215/371291 ) The Greatest Debate...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations announced today it is permanently banning thousands of accredited non-governmental organizations from the COP-15 climate conference in Copenhagen. The restriction was announced today outside the Copenhagen conference center after several thousand accredited NGO conference delegates, including three from the National Center for Public Policy Research, waited outside for eight hours or longer in 32-degree F temperatures for...

Tomorrow, December 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers will debut the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, fitness, smog, and traffic. Though it looks like an ordinary bicycle wheel with an oversized center, the Wheel's bright red hub is a veritable Swiss army knife's worth of electronic gadgets and novel functions. "Over the past few years we have seen a kind of biking...

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of people of all ages have already done it. They're queuing in front of the Hopenhagen Messages of Hope Pavilion at the City Hall Square at HopenhagenLIVE. They are writing their hopes for the planet in the Hopenhagen book and having their message of hope filmed. These small clips are then being shown an the giant globe at HopenhagenLIVE and on YouTube in the Bella Center. Hopenhagen is an international movement to drive action on climate change....

There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.At the eye of the storm is a unique new web site called Climate One-Stop (http://climateonestop.net)."It's a 'calm spot' where scientists, decision-makers, nonprofit workers, and officials can find all the latest research," says Dan Irwin of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "We unveiled the site at this...

Thousands of Activists Gather in Copenhagen, Denmark COPENHAGEN, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Independent media broadcasting pioneer, Free Speech TV and international environmental leader, Greenpeace are partnering to bring breaking coverage of the most crucial international climate summit in recent history. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091211/DC25189LOGO) Delegates from 192 countries, including 100 world leaders, have convened in the Danish capital to participate in...

The UN climate talks have produced the first official draft blueprint for a deal that would set targets for limiting global warming to 2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, AFP reported.So far several small island states and many African nations that are badly threatened by climate change have embraced the lower temperature goal, while the higher target has been supported by rich industrialized nations and emerging giants such as China, India and Brazil.The temperatures relate to a total rise in...

Millions of Citizens in Over 130 Countries Unite with Candlelight Vigils to Call for Progress in Copenhagen COPENHAGEN, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On December 12, millions of people from around the globe will come together for a massive day of action in a series of candlelight vigils, from the melting glaciers of Nepal to the sinking shores of Fiji. The events draw a line between success and failure at the Copenhagen Climate Conference by calling for a 3-point "Real Deal" that is:...

Over 30 000 people from 190 nations are gathered at the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. On Thursday about 150 distinguished guests attended an ESA-hosted side event entitled 'Global Monitoring of our Climate: the Essential Climate Variables'.During the event, speakers from various agencies highlighted the role that Earth observation satellites play in providing systematic global climate observations. These observations are essential for climate change research and for...