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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Present Deal Condemns Millions to Misery
By Claudia Ciobanu
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ? An internal note from the UN Secretariat dated December 15 states that the current emission reduction pledges made by Annex 1 countries and the voluntary actions and policy goals announced by non-Annex 1 states ?could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 ppm with the related temperature raise around 3 degrees.?
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/present-deal-condemns-millions-to-misery/

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Global Economic Apartheid Is Obstacle to Fair Deal
Claudia Ciobanu interviews Kumi Naidoo, head of Greenpeace International
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ?Climate change is an opportunity to deal with all the issues of equity and justice that we have been struggling for all along,? said Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International in an interview with IPS on Thursday in Copenhagen.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/global-economic-apartheid-is-obstacle-to-fair-deal/

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No Water in Copenhagen Talks
Stephen Leahy* ? Tierramérica
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) Similar market-based solutions will be used to ?solve? the growing water crisis, warned experts at the Klimaforum09, a parallel meeting a few kilometres away from the official COP15 talks.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/no-water-in-copenhagen-talks/

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Everything Left to Accomplish
By Mantoe Phakathi*
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ? ?It?s clear now ? we?re not getting a binding deal at the end of tomorrow,? said the president of Friends of the Earth-United States, Erich Pica.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/everything-left-to-accomplish/

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Norway Is Trying
By Claudia Ciobanu*
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) Norway is the world?s third largest donor in terms of development aid as a percentage of GDP. Norwegian Minister of Environment and International Development Erik Solheim spoke to IPS about the initiatives promoted by his country on environmental protection and its role during the Copenhagen negotiations.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/norway-is-trying/

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Lawmakers Push for an Agreement
By Raúl Pierri
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ? With only one day to go to the end of the climate change talks and no agreement in sight, it looks like it will ultimately be up to national legislators to effectively implement whatever agreement is forged here in the Danish capital.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/lawmakers-push-for-an-agreement/

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Food Security in Bangladesh in Great Peril from Climate Change
By Athar Parvaiz
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ? Unless the world comes to its aid, Bangladesh says the vulnerability of its agriculture sector to climate change could spell severe consequences for its millions of people, who stand to lose their main source of livelihood.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/food-security-in-bangladesh-in-great-peril-from-climate-change/

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Glacial Data Crucial to Combating Climate Change
By Darryl D?Monte
COPENHAGEN  (IPS/TerraViva) ? People living in the Himalayan region are increasingly confronted by rising temperatures and glaciers melting at an unprecedented rate, threatening their very survival. This much the world already knows.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/glacial-data-crucial-to-combating-climate-change/

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?Canada Is the Dinosaur? at COP 15
By Stephen Leahy
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) Canada bears a large share of responsibility for any failure to make a breakthrough in reducing greenhouse gas emissions here in Copenhagen, say participants and civil society activists.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/canada-is-the-dinosaur-at-cop-15/

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Water, Oil Key Climate Issues in Arab World
By Terna Gyuse
COPENHAGEN (IPS/TerraViva) ? In outlining a position on climate change, the League of Arab States must somehow account for looming problems like water stress ? a problem found from Morocco in the west to the Gulf states in the east ? and the importance of oil to the economies of many of the league?s members.
www.ips.org/TV/copenhagen/water-oil-key-climate-issues-in-arab-world/

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