Unpacking Copenhagen: What happened, what it means, and where we’re headed
Sydney: Wednesday, February 24 2010, 9-11am
Did the huge volume of media coming out of Copenhagen this week overwhelm you and turn you off? Are you unsure what the final…
The end… is such a scary place to start. It’s almost the end of the UN Climate Talks, yet there was a sense today that things are only just starting here, especially because we just found out the negotiations will…
Lots happened today – and is still going on in the conference centre right now, with youth from around the world doing a sit-in, in the middle of the conference centre. You can see live blogging from the sit in…
Joseph Nye coined the phrase ‘soft power’ to describe influence that didn’t stem from the usual ‘hard’ sources of power – military or economic might, geopolitical advantage – but from factors like cultural domination, personal popularity or the power of…
Well, I said in my last post that atmosphere at the UN are “dynamic”. That was a mild understatement!
I’ve never seen anything like these negotiations for the sheer frenetic pace – the Bella Center is a hive from early until…