Video: Yvo De Boer plays down the 'Danish text' at Copenhagen

The Ecologist

| 10th December 2009

Listen to three high-level responses to the leak of the now infamous 'Danish text'

Kim Carstensen, director of the WWF International Global Climate Initiative, Lumuba Stanislaus Di-Aping, chairman of the G77 plus China, and Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, offer their opinions on the fallout from the leak of the 'Danish text' - an early negotiating draft that heavily favours industrialised nations...

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Top banks put nine times more money into fossil fuels than renewables

The Ecologist

| 3rd November 2015

Since the last big climate conference in 2009 the world's biggest private sector banks have provided more than nine more money to fossil fuels than to renewable energy - showing up their oft-repeated 'green finance' promises as little more than PR puff.
Copenhagen: concession and compromise

Mark Anslow

| 18th December 2009

Climate negotiations are always a balancing act. But the global atmosphere is not a politician, and it won't forgive us if we get this wrong
COP15: 'We will not just discuss procedure'

The Ecologist

| 17th December 2009

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen attempts to force negotiations at COP15 forward, saying 'we will not just discuss procedure, procedure, procedure'

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