Copenhagen Climate Conference
Democracy Now!: Tues., Dec. 22, 2009
A new study on healthcare lobbying published in the Chicago Tribune has found that healthcare companies have spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years. At least 166 former congressional aides involved in shaping healthcare legislation have registered to lobby for healthcare companies. This includes at least 14 former aides to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and at least 13 former aides to Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee; and the nation’s leading climate scientist, James Hansen, explains why he thinks it’s ultimately better for the planet that the talks collapsed and talks about his new book, “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth of the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity” and much more. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageGRITtv: Copenhagen: Vigil for Survival
In Copenhagen, while world leaders argued dollar amounts and percentage points, more than 5000 ordinary people, activists and NGO workers, decided to fast for climate justice as an example of their willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good. This video from TckTckTck shows their vigil outside the conference.
G-77 Chairman Makes Angry Plea to Obama After Talks
At one a.m. Dec. 19, 2009, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chairman of the G-77 group of developing countries at Copenhagen, calls the treaty a weak and last-minute face-saving measure that lacks legally-binding force, gave no guidance on a cap in global temperature rise or carbon levels and includes less aid than may be necessary. Video: treehuggertv
Democracy Now!: Mon., Dec. 21, 2009
The climate summit in Copenhagen came to a close with the world’s nations reluctantly agreeing to “take note of” but not endorse a non-binding accord President Obama announced Friday night. The 12-page agreement seeks to limit global warming to a maximum of a 2 degree Celsius rise in temperature. But it does not specify targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. We speak with Guardian columnist George Monbiot and Lucia Green-Weiskel of the China-based Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation. Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald joins us to talk about the passage of the healthcare bill in the Senate this weekend, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talks about climate change, the Copenhagen summit and President Obama. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
CANTV: Scientists: A Deal That Works?
Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, talks with Gillian Caldwell about the chances of a worthy deal at the UN climate talks.
350.org's Hopes for Climate Talks
Gillian Caldwell talks to a 350.org campaigner from Fiji about her hopes for a worthy climate-change document to come out of the Copenhagen climate talks.
CANTV: David Cook on Tuvalu Negotiations
David Ngatae of the Cook Islands discusses the Tuvalu's intervention and the hopes for a legally binding agreement coming out of Copenhagen.
CANTV: Friends of the Earth Sit-In After Ejection
Members of the Friends of the Earth environmental organizaton hold a sit-in Thursday outside the Bella Center after their director was ejected from a Climate Talks session. Video: 1Sky Campaign
CANTV: Gen. Wesley Clark on Climate Negotiations and Money
In Copenhagen, U.S. General Wesley Clark, the co-chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group, says money is not enough to stop climate change, and shares his views about how climate change can be mitigated. Video: GlobalObservatory
CANTV: David Kroodsman on Obama Climate Speech
David Kroodsma, ambassador of Hopenhagen, talks about the positives and negatives he heard in President Obama's Friday speach on the last day of the COP15 climate negotiations before an agreement was reached.
