IPS and TerraViva from Copenhagen

Will the climate change summit taking place Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen make deals that are fair, ambitious and binding? IPS news agency has mobilised a team of 15 journalists, drawn largely from Africa, Asia and Latin America, to go to Copenhagen and find out. IPS' independent TerraViva newspaper will produce the latest news on the conference every day in English, Spanish and French, complete with photos, videos and other multimedia content.
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Q&A: “Copenhagen Should Target the Developed World”
Andrea Bordé interviews DJIMON HOUNSOU, U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for Climate Change
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Although a professional actor by trade, Djimon Hounsou takes his role as a U.N. goodwill ambassador for climate change seriously, and hopes to see a strong mandate reached in Copenhagen that puts the spotlight on developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Youth See Their Future in the Balance
By Stephen Leahy*
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) – Young people from 44 countries are demanding that world leaders take decisive action on climate change. The time for talk is over, they declared at the end of a weeklong Children's Climate Forum here.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49559

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CHINA/INDIA: ?Business as Usual? for Carbon Emission Targets
Analysis by Darryl D'Monte*
MUMBAI, India (IPS/TerraViva) – China, the world?s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has stolen a march over the rest of Asia in unilaterally declaring its carbon intensity cuts a day after President Barack Obama did late last month for the U.S.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Negawatts and Smart Grids
By Julio Godoy*
BERLIN (IPS/TerraViva) – Electricity is indispensable to modern life, but its generation is responsible for 40 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming and climate change.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49562

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Q&A: 'Economic Growth Is Making us Poorer'
VITERBO, Italy (IPS) – Dinner one evening when he was a kid put William Rees on track to becoming a sustainability pioneer. It was after a day at work on the family farm when he was nine or 10. He saw he had had a hand in growing everything on his plate. That brought a fascination with a connection to earth that would never leave him.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Projects Waiting to Exhale
By Cam McGrath*
CAIRO (IPS/IFEJ) – Initiatives to reduce Egypt's greenhouse gas emissions could get a big push if world leaders and environment officials meeting in Copenhagen for climate talks that start Monday agree to maintain or enhance the carbon trading framework.
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CHINA: One Green Leap Forward, Two Steps Backward
By Antoaneta Bezlova*
BEIJING (IPS/TerraViva) – With low carbon seen as the new buzzword for government promotion and backed by Beijing as the new economic growth engine, China is poised for a green leap forward.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Hunger Strikers in “Moral Call to Action”
By Liza Jansen*
UNITED NATIONS (IPS/TerraViva) – Hoping to emotionally engage world leaders and ordinary citizens, hundreds of people from around the globe have entered their fifth week of fasting at the start of the Copenhagen Climate Conference.
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Q&A: Gender Missing in Climate Agreements
Sabina Zaccaro interviews IUCN gender advisor LORENA AGUILAR REVELO*
ROME (IPS/TerraViva) – Women are known to be innovators when it comes to responding to climate change. The question is how to ensure that the role of women and gender equality are reflected in climate change agreements.
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U.S.: Climate Policy Derailed by Corporate Interests
By Adrianne Appel*
BOSTON (IPS/TerraViva) – As the U.S. climate delegation arrives in Copenhagen nearly empty-handed, watchdog groups back at home say they know why: a political system gone astray due to the influence of huge amounts of corporate cash.
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