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Democracy Now!: Thurs., Dec. 10, 2009
From Copenhagen: The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu tried to get a new protocol that would require more aggressive reductions in emissions and a more ambitious climate target. Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo talks about Obama’s Nobel prize, the status of the Copenhagen summit and climate debt. Pres. Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today. In a possible attempt to avoid questions about the Afghan war, the White House canceled several Nobel events. A coalition of North American indigenous groups marched in Copenhagen, calling on Obama to stop what they described as the war on native peoples and lands waged by the U.S. energy industry. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageDemocracy Now!: Wed. Dec. 9, 2009
Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the Sudanese chair of the group of 132 developing countries known as G77, condemned leaked documents that indicate world leaders will sign an agreement that sidelines the UN’s role in future climate change negotiations; Naomi Klein and Martin Khor on the growing North/South divide over climate debt and emission targets; chief Bolivian climate negotiator on why developed countries owe climate debt to poorer ones; Paraguayan negotiator Miguel Lovera discusses the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation rainforest plan. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
