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…

The first week of negotiations is over and 110 world leaders are about to descend on Copenhagen for the final week. It seems like all eyes are on this city, as we wait in anticipation for a treaty on climate…

I’m trapped inside a police “pen” in a Copenhagen street with about 500 protestors who’ve been surrounded by police vans and dogs to stop anyone getting in or out. As the police moved in, I went upstairs to my friends’…

Walking past security into the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen on the morning of the 4th day, I see a sea of of bright orange t-shirts. As I am handed one to wear by a youth delegate from Africa,…

One of the things that we’ve noticed over the past few days is that journalists have been pushing everyone here very hard to comment on the large protests outside the conference centre, and get a line they can use to…