Compilation: COP18 Doha UN Climate Summit 2012: Betrayal of Life

1-7 = Post mortem vids.  8-32 = Selected week 2 vids.  33-40 = Selected week 1 vids and a few others.

 

This is a compilation of material and developments related to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP 18 (Conference of the Parties), annual Climate Change Summit, held in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 26 – Dec. 8, 2012, and its aftermath.

Please see selected vids, articles, reports and other resources to date compiled below.

 

Below: Intro (soon), summary (soon), conclusion (soon), resources.

 

 

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COP18 Doha UN Climate Summit 2012 – Selected articles, blog posts, releases, reports

• Must read (more soon)
• Post – Scientists call for war on climate change, but who on Earth is listening? D. Spratt, CCR
• Article with interactive – 6 degrees of devastation, Sydney Morning Herald
• Article – Weak Doha climate deal leaves world on path to 3C — catastrophic climate change(!) — by 2040 (via Climate Action Tracker), Ed King, RTCC  — Click here for CAT press release (that also bashes Canada’s fudged numbers) — Click here for PDF of CAT report
• Article – Break the grip of corporate power to secure our future — Neoliberal dogma forbids the intervention required to stop climate change — To save the planet, we must articulate a new politics.  George Monbiot, The Guardian
• Post – NOAA: Climate change driving Arctic into a ‘new state’ with rapid ice loss and record permafrost warming, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Statement – from Bolivia civil society ahead of the Doha talks, World Development Movement
• Article – Coasting toward climate change disaster, Gwynne Dyer, Straight.com
• Article – World Energy Report 2012: The really, truly ugly — “An increase of 3.6 degrees C essentially suggests the end of civilization as we know it.” — Michael T. Klare, Huffpost
• Open letter – Doha Day 2: Youth letter to the UNFCCC Executive Secretary — The business plan of fossil fuel corporations — and countries with policies like Canada(!) — are incompatible with our (the world’s youth) survival — …what is more important; the livelihoods of people, or the balance sheets of Exxon, Shell, and Chevron? FoEI
• Open letter – to governments and their negotiators, McKibben, Bassey, Solon, 350.org, FoE
• Article – Stand still for the apocalypse, Chris Hedges, Truthdig
• Article – It’s the environment and the economy, stupid. Elizabeth May, Hill Times
• Post mortem (more soon)
• Videos (also embedded at top of post) – Dec. 8 final press conference – Samantha Smith, WWF – Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace – Tim Gore, Oxfam – Wael, Hmaidan, Climate Action Network – Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists – Mohamed Adow, Christian Aid – Vids by OneClimate.org
• Statement – Doha climate talks: Industrialized countries block climate action, FoEI
• Statement – Governments produce blank pages in Doha for planet’s future, La Via Campesina farmers are cooling the planet, La Via Campesina
• Statement – Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
• Release – ‘Climate action drought’ in Doha risks condemning world to more hunger, Oxfam
• Statement – People are ready for action on climate; “world leaders” are not, WWF Global
• Release – Negotiators spew more hot air at climate summit in Doha, UCS
• Statements – Enviro groups respond to COP18: No oasis in Doha desert, tcktcktck.org
• Post – On not attending the UN climate conference in Doha, Anne Petermann, GJEP
• Article – Post mortem + thoughts on how to build global pressure, M. Jacobs, The Guardian
• Article – Doha deal clears way for ‘damage aid’ to poor nations, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Article – Doha Gateway: What was agreed at the COP18 climate summit, RTCC
• Week 2
• Appeal – Leading NGOs make emergency appeal at Doha, Oxfam
• Article – A hotter world is a hungry world, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article – Civil society breaks the silence, confronts gov’ts at COP18, A. Westwood, Rabble.ca
• Post – Arab youth arrested at COP18; Canadians confront Kent, Alana Westwood, CYD
• Article – Climate talks: Endless treadmill, without the health benefits, Tom Zeller Jr., Huffpost
• Article – World’s nations face ‘climate cliff’ at Doha summit, Amy Goodman, The Guardian
• Post – Youth groups in solidarity with developing countries at climate talks, FoEI
• Article – Accelerated warming driving Arctic into new volatile state, Climate Central
• Article – World Bank: Climate change will hit Middle East and Africa especially hard, AP
• Open letter – To Barack Obam: We are running out of time, Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace
• Article – Frustration rises over lack of climate cash for poor countries, John Vidal, The Guardian
• Article – Ban Ki-moon: Rich countries to blame for global warming, AP
• Open letter – to Chevron’s CEO: Your business is creating a climate incompatible with organized global community, David Fenton, Climate Progress
• Article – Nicholas Stern: The ‘brutal arithmetic’ is that developing countries will have to make stronger emissions cuts, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Post – Signs of solidarity in a desert barren of compassion, Karen Rooney, CYD
• Post – Youth activists bring energy and urgency, John Vidal, The Guardian
• Article – Civil society, youth pushed to the margins at Doha, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Post – COP18 lacks energy and ambition (unless you count ambitious dirty energy corporations), Meghan McCarthy, CYD
• Post – Canada ranked worst performer — 58th out of 61(!) — in developed world on climate change, Hannah McKinnon, CAN Canada
• Post – Rich countries spend 5x more on fossil fuel subsidies than climate aid, S. Lacey, CP
• Article – 3.1% emissions rise in 2011 seems to insure dangerous climate path, Reuters
• Article – Qatar’s first environmental march, John Vidal, The Guardian
• Pics – Climate march through the streets of Doha, 350.org
• Article – Study indicates heat-trapping pollution rose 3% worldwide in 2011, AP
• Week 1
• Post – Stephen Harper’s crimes, Yves Engler, YvesEngler.com
• Article – Theatre of the absurd – COP18 has only mosest aims, The Economist
• Article – Doha climate talks: Where’s the money? Miriam Ross, WDM
• Article – Climate change is happening NOW – carbon price must follow, J. Hansen, The Guardian
• Article – Contemplating climate change catastrophe at COP18, Amy Goodman, The Guardian
• Videos – E. May calls out PM for Canada’s calculated obstruction at UN climate talks, GPC
• Post – Doha, Qatar, host of 2012 UN climate summit is the world’s biggest per capita emitter and a massive consumer of state-subsidized energy in a country that makes most of its money from sale of fossil fuels, The Guardian
• Post – IPCC’s planned obsolescence: 5th (next) Assessment Report (from UN’s top climate body) will ignore crucial permafrost carbon feedback(!), Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Post – Science stunner: Greenland ice melt up nearly five-fold since mid-1990s, Antarctica’s ice loss up 50% in past decade, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Post – Scientific American: ‘Loss of ice, melting of permafrost and other climate effects are occurring at an alarming pace’, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Article – Greenland and Antarctica ‘have lost 4 trillion tonnes of ice’ in 20 years, D. Carrington
• Article – Greenland glacier melting 5 times faster than in 1990s(!), Margo McDiarmid, CBC
• Post – Report says IPCC needs to address melting permafrost, Dan Yawitz, Climate Central
• Article – Where even the Earth is melting, Ben Cubby, SMH
• Post – Sea level rise accelerating faster than initial projections, M. Lemonick, Climate Central
• Post – We’re not just living on a finite planet; we’re living on a melting one, Karen Rooney, CYD
• Article – UN: Methane released from melting ice could push climate past tipping point — climate models do not yet take account of powerful greenhouse gas escaping from thaw of permafrost(!), Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Article – World bank should take its own advice on climate change, Simon Butler, Green Left
• Post – 7 reasons climate change ‘even worse than we thought’, J. Romm, Climate Progress
• Article – Famine the final wake up call on global warming, Julian Cribb, Canberra Times
• Article – Canada, the surprise ‘pariah’ of the Kyoto protocol, Isabeau Doucet, The Guardian
• Article – Doha climate talks: what to expect, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Lead up to COP18 Doha UN Climate Summit 2012
• Article – Time running out: Doha climate talks must put end to excuses, J. Vidal, The Guardian
• Article – UNEP finds climate change goals growing more elusive, Wynne Parry, Huffpost
• Post – Nearly 200 leading global companies + investors call for carbon price, Tom Wittig, CP
• Article – Influential investors call for action on ‘serious climate danger’, Reuters
• Maps – 16 scariest maps from EU’s new climate change report, P. Bump, Grist
• Article – UN: Slow pace of carbon cuts brings catasrophe closer, F. Harvey, The Guardian
• Article – Concentrations of greenhouse gases in atmosphere at a record high AND GROWING, not shrinking — emissions cuts far too slow to fight climate change, warns UN report, AP
• Article – Multiple climate reports forcast dire future, even if action taken(!) T. Zeller Jr., Huffpost
• Article – 5 crucial new findings about climate change, Tara Lohan, Alternet
• Post – World Bank’s shocking, cautionary tale on urgent threat of climate change, K. Rigg
• Post – CO2 hits new high; World could hit 7.2F (4C) by 2060, M. Lemonick, Climate Central
• Post – Shocking World Bank climate report: ‘A 4C (7.2F) world can, and must, be avoided’ to avert ‘devastating’ impacts, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Article – Planet on path to 4C warming, World Bank reports, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article – World Bank: All nations will suffer devastating effects of 4C climate change, Reuters
• Article – US considers shifting climate negotiations away from UN track, A. Neslen, The Guardian
• Post – 27 or younger? You’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month(!), Grist
• Post – Obama press conference: You can’t say that!  Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
• Post – IEA: Fossil fuel boom is a climate disaster in the making, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Article – Climate change report outlines perils for U.S. military, John M. Broder, NY Times
• Article – Former UN official: Climate report will shock nations into action, P. Hannam, SMH
• Article – Report: World on track for at least 6C warming without carbon cuts, The Guardian
• Article – We are writing the epilogue to the world we knew, John Atcheson
• Article – Global warming’s terrifying new math, Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone
• Article – ‘Faster than we thought’: An epitaph for planet Earth, John Atcheson
• Article – Maya civilization collapse related to modest rainfall reductions, Joe Romm, CP
• Article – Climate change has helped bring down cultures, David Biello, Scientific American

 

Key reports

• NOAA – 2012 Arctic Report Card
• http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20121205_arcticreportcard.html#.UL_Z_WOcQqo.facebook
• Post – NOAA: Climate change driving Arctic into a ‘new state’ with rapid ice loss and record permafrost warming, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Article – Accelerated warming driving Arctic into new volatile state, Climate Central
• Global Carbon Project
• http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/index.htm
• Article – 3.1% emissions rise in 2011 seems to insure dangerous climate path, Reuters
• Article – Study indicates heat-trapping pollution rose 3% worldwide in 2011, AP
• Post – Scientists call for war on climate change, but who on Earth is listening? D. Spratt, CCR
• UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme
• http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/emissionsgap2012/
• http://www.unep.org/pdf/permafrost.pdf
• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/02/1253931/ipccs-planned-obsolescence-fifth-assessment-report-will-ignore-crucial-permafrost-carbon-feedback/
• http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-says-ipcc-needs-to-address-impact-of-melting-permafrost-15291
• Wold Bank – Turn Down the Heat
• http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/4-degrees-briefing-for-the-world-bank-the-risks-of-a-future-without-climate-policy
• Post – Shocking World Bank climate report: ‘A 4C (7.2F) world can, and must, be avoided’ to avert ‘devastating’ impacts, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• Post – CO2 hits new high; World could hit 7.2F (4C) by 2060, M. Lemonick, Climate Central
• Article – Planet on path to 4C warming, World Bank reports, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article – All nations will suffer devastating effects of 4C climate change, warns World Bank, Reuters
• Article – A hotter world is a hungry world, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article – Famine the final wake up call on global warming, Julian Cribb, Canberra Times
• Article – World bank should take its own advice on climate change, Simon Butler, Green Left
• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/07/1296821/world-banks-new-climate-strategy-keep-financing-coal-just-dont-call-it-a-coal-plant/
• IEA – International Energy Agency
• Report – World Energy Outlook 2012, IEA
• Press release – World Energy Outlook 2012, IEA
• Post – IEA report: Fossil fuel boom is a climate disaster in the making, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
• http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/
• PWC – Price Waterhouse Cooper
• http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/sustainability/publications/low-carbon-economy-index/index.jhtml
• http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/11/mankind-approaching-carbon-cliff-report-warns/
• Article – Study: World on track for at least 6C warming without carbon cuts, Price Waterhouse Cooper, The Guardian
• Article – Famine the final wake up call on global warming, Julian Cribb, Canberra Times
• New Scientist – IPCC
• http://www.newscientist.com/special/worse-climate
• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/26/1219981/new-scientist-7-reasons-climate-change-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/
• Price of Oil
• http://priceofoil.org/2012/12/03/new-analysis-fossil-fuel-subsidies-five-times-greater-than-climate-finance/
• Post – Rich countries spend 5 times more on fossil fuel subsidies than on climate aid, Stephen Lacey, Climate Progress
• EU
• http://grist.org/news/the-16-scariest-maps-from-the-e-u-s-massive-new-climate-change-report/
• 2012 Climate Vulnerability Monitor (2nd Edn): A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet
• Report – 2012 Climate Vulnerability Monitor, 2nd Edition: Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet
• Executive summary – 2012 Climate Vulnerability Monitor, 2nd Edition, DARA (10-page PDF)
• Article – Climate change already damaging global economy, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Article – Climate change, carbon economy killing 5 million a year, Megan Rowling, AlertNet
• Article – Climate change kills 400,000 a year, Mark Hertsgaard, The Daily Beast
• Article – Putting climate change in the budget will save lives / money, David Suzuki, HuffPost
• Article – Latest climate signs should jolt leaders into action, Sam Bickersteth, CDKN.org
• Article – Global warming already causing loss of life, damage to world economy, Huffpost
• Article – Climate crisis already causing unprecedented damage to global economy — Inaction to kill 100 million by 2030, Robert Glasser, CARE
• 2010 Climate Vulerability Monitor (First Edition): The State of the Climate Crisis, DARA
• Rio+20-related reports, statements, appeals, declarations
• Report – State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute
• Statement – Civil society (400+) statement to reclaim UN from corporate capture, FoEI
• Report – Reclaim the UN from Corporate Capture (32-page PDF), Friends of the Earth Int’l
• Summary – Failure to act on climate change will doom Rio+20 outcomes, CCTF
• Appeal – for urgent action on climate change (4-pg PDF), Climate Change Task Force, CCTF
• Report – Action to Face the Urgent Realities of Climate Change (33-pg PDF), CCTF
• Declaration – Kari-Oca 2 Declaration, Indigenous Peoples 4 Mother Earth @ Rio+20
• Report – Global Environment Outlook (GEO) 5, UNEP
• Declaration – State of the Planet Declaration (10-page PDF), Planet Under Pressure Conference
• Report – Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act (23-pg PDF), Blue Planet Laureates

 

Rio+20 UN Earth Summit (June 2012) – Selected articles, blog posts, releases, reports

• Post mortem from Rio+20 UN Earth Summit (June 2012)
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Rio+20 UN Earth Summit (June 2012): The future written-off to privatize/commodify nature for profit, betray life and just sit around talk’n
• Article – Rio betrayal, makes no fresh, green breast of the world, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Article – After Rio, we know. Gov’ts have given up on the planet, George Monbiot, The Guardian
• Post – Rio without the principles, Nnimmo Bassey, FoEI
• Article – Rio+20 draft text is 283 paragraphs of fluff: How “sustainability” became “sustained growth”, George Monbiot, The Guardian
• Statement – Rio+20 Earth Summit: A failure of epic proportions, Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace
• Post – The failure of Rio, fighting for the future we want, Anil Naidoo, Council of Canadians
• Release – CoC denounces Canada’s role at Rio+20 summit, Anil Naidoo, Council of Cdns
• Post – What has taken place at the People’s Summit, Dipti Bhatnagar, FoEI
• Lead up to Rio+20 UN Earth Summit (June 2012)
• Statement – Civil society (400+) statement to reclaim UN from corporate capture, FoEI
• Article – Furious Greenpeace moves to ‘war footing’ at Rio+20, Jo Confino, The Guardian
• Release – Fossil awards to ALL gov’ts for agreeing a future we DON’T want, CAN Int’l
• Post – The mendacity of hope (“the rope on which we hang.”), George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
• Article – Ignoring climate change at Rio makes other goals “meaningless”, J. Hance, Mongabay
• Release – Shell, Exxon Mobil, Petrobras, Chevron, BP get first ever “Corporate” Fossil, CAN Int’l
• Article – WWF: Biggest villain at Rio+20 is Canada, Jeremy Hance, Mongabay
• Article – Campaigners demand end to 1 trillion annual fossil fuel subsidies, D. Clark, Guardian
• Article – Eco Warriors, arise! Vandana Shiva, The Asian Age (excerpted above)
• Post – The failure of environmentalism, David Suzuki
• Position paper – The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio+20 and beyond, La Via Campesina via Climate & Capitalism
• Article – Rio+20 Earth Summit could collapse, warns WWF, John Vidal, The Guardian
• Article – Don’t wait for disappointment from the bureaucrats, they will only ever lead from behind once a critical mass of people have shown the way, Andrew Simms, The Guardian
• Article – A plea for Rio: Don’t commodify nature, David Korten, Common Dreams/YES! Magazine
• Article – Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists, Fred Pearce, New Scientist
• Opinion – On the road back to Rio, green direction has been lost, Fred Pearce, Yale 360
• Article – Rio+20: Concerns raised over lack of transformational change, J. Barchfield, HuffPost
• Post – Rio+20 Summit: “As useless as tits on a bull”? Julie Johnston, Greenhearted.org

 

Post mortem from COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit (December 2011) – Selected articles, blog posts, releases, reports

• ecoSanity – Compilation: COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011: Betrayal of Life
• Q & A – Why Durban is different from past climate agreements, F. Harvey, J. Vidal, Guardian
• Article – Resistance and hope at a time of climate emergency, Nick Buxton, Common Dreams
• Article – Dangerous decade: What follows Durban climate deal? F. Pearce, New Scientist
• Statement – Disastrous “Durban Package” accelerates onset of climate catastrophe, FOEI
• Video interview – Pablo Solon: Climate apartheid, the lost decade to 2020, Democracy NOW!
• Release – Durban climate talks a spectacular failure, M. Worthy, World Development Movement
• Opinion – Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit, T. Homer-Dixon, Globe and Mail
• Post – Climate deal guarantees our children will be worse off than us, D. Carrington, Guardian
• Post – COP17 succumbs to climate apartheid, Global Justice Ecology Project
• Article – NGOs slam climate talks’ resolutions, Times Live
• Post – Last thoughts on Durban package, Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
• Statement – Durban climate summit saves face at expense of future generations, CYD COP17
• Release – Governments fail on ambition, courage at UN climate change talks, WWF
• Release – First reaction to Durban climate talks, Friends of the Earth Int’l
• Post – Showdown at the Durban disaster: Challenging the ‘big green’ patriarchy, Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project
• Post – Politicians listen to the polluters at climate talks, Greenpeace Int’l
• Release – Immediate reaction from Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Post – 3 sleepless nights in a global emergency, Bill Blakemore, ABC
• Post – Top 5 take aways from Durban climate talks, David Roberts, Grist
• Article – Suicide pact at Durban, Gwynne Dyer
• Article – UN climate conference approves landmark deal? Arthur Max, AP
• Article – Durban deal will not avert catastrophic climate change, F. Harvey, J. Vidal, Guardian
• Article – Climate deal salvaged after marathon talks in Durban, J. Vidal, F. Harvey, Guardian

 

Canada – COP18 Doha UN Climate Summit 2012 – Selected articles, blog posts, releases, reports

• Post mortem
• Video – Statement: Climate change, Elizabeth May
• Article – Weak Doha climate deal leaves world on path to 3C — catastrophic climate change(!) — by 2040 (via Climate Action Tracker), Ed King, RTCC  — Click here for CAT press release (that also bashes Canada’s fudged numbers) — Click here for PDF of CAT report
• Article – It’s the environment and the economy, stupid. Elizabeth May, Hill Times
• Week 2
• Article – Civil society confronts govts at climate negotiations, Alana Westwood, Rabble.ca
• Post – Arab youth arrested at COP18; Canadians confront Kent, Alana Westwood, CYD
• http://climateactionnetwork.ca/2012/12/06/civil-society-delivers-powerful-messages-to-minister-kent-in-doha/
• Post – Signs of solidarity in a desert barren of compassion, Karen Rooney, CYD
• Post – COP18 lacks energy and ambition (unless you count ambitious dirty energy corporations), Meghan McCarthy, CYD
• Post – Canada ranked worst performer — 58th out of 61(!) — in developed world on climate change, Hannah McKinnon, CAN Canada
• Week 1
• Post – Stephen Harper’s crimes, Yves Engler, YvesEngler.com
• http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/12/01/harper-newspeak-and-the-war-on-the-environment/
• http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/early-impressions-of-cop18/
• http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/learnings-from-the-unistoten-camp-at-unfccc/
• Article – Canada won’t budge on environment, Peter Kent insists, Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail
• Videos – E. May calls out PM for Canada’s calculated obstruction at UN climate talks, GPC
• Post – We’re not just living on a finite planet; we’re living on a melting one, Karen Rooney, CYD
• Article – Outcry grows over Cdn govt’s undermining of climate science, Katherine Bagley, ICN
• Article – Canada, the surprise ‘pariah’ of the Kyoto protocol, Isabeau Doucet, The Guardian

 

Canada – COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit (Dec. 2011) – Selected articles, blog posts, releases, reports

• Post mortem
• Article – Ottawa drops the ball and Toronto lets it get away, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star
• Article – Canada’s message: The world and its climate be damned, J. Simpson, Globe and Mail
• Article – Kyoto: The Conservative government’s shameful action, John Bennett, Rabble.ca
• Post – Why aren’t more of us losing it like Trudeau? Matt Price, Huffington Post Canada
• Post – Canada’s Kyoto math doesn’t add up, Matt Horne, Pembina Institute
• Post – Toronto’s public library collects more fines than Canada’s Environmental Protection Agency, Michael Graham Richard, Treehugger
• Article – Canada faces ‘pattern of non-enforcement’ of environmental law, Heather Scoffield, CP
• Article – No ‘credible information’ to support claims oil sands are green, says Environment Canada, Mike de Souza, Postmedia
• Post – Withdrawal from Kyoto: There must be a political price to be paid, Elizabeth May
• Article – May accuses Harper of breaking law over Kyoto, M. Fitzpatrick, CBC
• Release – Withdrawal from Kyoto appalling, Green Party of Canada
• Article – Canada’s Kyoto withdrawal called ‘act of sabotage’, Reuters
• Post – Kent is lying, Andrea Harden-Donahue, Council of Canadians
• Article – Canada formally abandons Kyoto, B. Curry, S. McCarthy, Globe and Mail
• Opinion – Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit, T. Homer-Dixon, Globe and Mail
• Post – Last thoughts on Durban package, Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
• Statement – Durban climate summit saves face at expense of future generations, CYD COP17
• Release – Durban climate summit saves face at expense of future generations, CYD COP17
• Article – Climate deal marks ‘lowest common denominator’, G. York, Globe and Mail
• Week 2
• Post – U.S. and Canada (last 5 yrs) share ‘Colossal Fossil’ award, CAN Int’l
• Article – Canada, the grave-digger of Kyoto, Martin Lukacs, The Media Co-op
• Op-ed – Standing up for the planet, The 6 Canadian Youth Delegation members who protested Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent’s speech (and Canada’s betrayal of life) at the COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011 explain why, Matthew Chisholm, Sonia Grant, Brigette DePape, Meghan McCarthy, James Hutt and Karen Rooney, Toronto Star
• Post – Fossil fuel subsidies: What are they, how much are they worth? Danielle S’stelie, CYD
• Letter – Letter of support for Canadian youth: Suzuki, McKibben, Naidoo, Barlow, CYD
• Article – Canada wins few friends on climate, Richard Black, BBC
• Post – Amazing Grace, Mardi Tindal
• Release – Canadian youth who stood for people over polluters ejected from COP17, CYD
• Article – Low Durban profile relegates Canada to margins of negotiations, G. York, Globe & Mail
• Week 1
• Post – Corporate influence root of inaction at COP17, Brigette DePape, CYD
• Post – Who’s financing climate change? Banks and the coal industry, Sonia Grant, CYD
• Post – Searching for Canada’s climate change action plan, Malkolm Boothroyd, CYD
• Post – In Durban, growing criticism of Canada’s position on Kyoto and push for tar sands, Stephen Lacey, Climate Progress
• Post – On climate, Canada is a rogue state, Marc Lee, Progressive Economics Forum
• Post – Government of Canada’s latest climate policy stance: RACISM, Robin Tress, CYD
• Post – A conference of polluters: The Canadian government’s collusion with corporate lobbies comes under fire at climate negotiations, Amara Possian, Co-ordinator, CYD
• Article – Climate summit sees Canadian strike on Kyoto treaty, Richard Black, BBC
• Article – Green Party chief fears Tories will act as ‘saboteurs’ at climate talks, Globe and Mail
• Post – Fact check on Kyoto distortions, Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
• Article – UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project, D. Carrington, The Guardian
• Video/pics – Greenpeace brands Harper government a “Climate FAIL”, Greenpeace Canada
• Lead up to conference
• Article – Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol next month, CTV
• Demands – 5 ways the Canadian government can stop defending the dirtiest oil in the world, and start defending people and the planet, Canadian Youth Delegation to COP17
• Report – Canadian gov’t conspires with big polluters to prevent climate solutions, Greenpeace
• Article – Corporations spending billions to excert ‘undue influence’ to prevent global climate action, Greenpeace report, Mike De Souza, Vancouver Sun
• Article – Alberta looks to record year for gas, oil leases, Carrie Tait, Globe and Mail
• Article – Canada’s obstructive approach to the negotiation of new emission-reduction targets has many international observers baffled, Amara Possian, Co-ordinator, CYD, The Mark
• Article – Amid dire warming warnings, Canada is MIA, Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
• Article – Weather harder to predict, Environment Canada warns, CBC
• Article – Tories bar opposition MPs from official delegatiion at climate talks, CP
• Article – Global warming in Canada NOW, permafrost melts, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen
• Article – Canada cuts environment spending, Stephen Leahy, IPS, The Guardian
• Article – Canada’s climate stance to spark controversy, CBC
• Article – Canada’s climate change goals falling short, Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC
• Report – 8 reasons why climate change could cost Canada billions by 2020, CBC

General

• General
• Website – 2012 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) 18, Doha, Qatar
• Website – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Wikipedia – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• ecoSanity – Compilation: COP18 Doha UN Climate Summit 2011: Betrayal of Life
• ecoSanity – Compilation: COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011: Betrayal of Life
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Canada’s betrayal of life
• ecoSanity – Compilation: COP16 UN Cancun Climate Summit 2010 (Soon)
• ecoSanity – 3 months later: Collected reflections on COP15
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Copenhagen UN Climate Summit 2009: First take compilation / post mortem
• ecoSanity – Category: UN Climate Summits
• ecoSanity – Category: Tar Sands
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Tar Sands Kill
• ecoSanity – Category: Keystone XL Pipeline
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Alberta to Texas Keystone XL Pipeline, Climate & Environmental Crimeline
• ecoSanity – Category: Northern Gateway Pipeline
• ecoSanity – Compilation: Northern Gateway Pipeline

Previous Summits

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2009/aug/28/timeline-countdown-copenhagen-climate-summit
• History – of climate negotiations, David Suzuki Foundation
• 2013 – COP 19, Warsaw, Poland
• 2012 – COP 18, Doha, Qatar
• 2011 – COP 17, Durban, South Africa
• 2010 – COP 16, Cancun, Mexico
• 2010 – World People’s Conference on Climate Change & the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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• 1988 – NASA’s James Hansen warns US Congress of global warming threat

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