TODAY: Will Santa Free Our Activists for Christmas? COP-FLOP Stories of Woe Continue; Swiss City Bans GP Supporter Recruitment
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Like yesterday, lingering COP15 news reports on the failure of the Climate summit and the updates on the arrested activists.
In the Washington Times, Gabe Wisniewski was quoted, "Two years have passed since world leaders promised all of us a deal to stop climate change. After two weeks of U.N. negotiations, politicians breezed in, had dinner with the Queen, a three-hour lunch, took some photos, and then delivered what could only be described as the 24-hour Head of State tourist brochure of Copenhagen instead of a climate treaty."
Grist however seems optimistic about The Copenhagen Accord and calls it a big step forward. "The Copenhagen climate deal that President Obama hammered out Friday night with the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa broke through years of negotiating gridlock to achieve three critical goals," it said.
The German Tageszeitung reports that 12 activists have been released from a Copenhagen prison but our 4 Greenpeace activists remain in "solitary confinement." Norwegian and Spanish media continue to report strongly on this topic in favor of the GP activists.
AP reports that in the case of Norwegian activist Nora Christensen, Danish investigators who usually take on cases of murder, robbery and other serious violent crimes have been put on the case of Nora.
The Greenpeace action in China where crosses were displayed in Central Cenotaph received some (belated) coverage in national media.
Swiss media reported that Greenpeace is no longer allowed to recruit new supporters on the streets in Zurich as they were not allotted the prerequisite Sewo zeal to collect donations.
In Non-Greenpeace News:
There's been quite a bit of coverage on deforestation. The Jakarta Globe featured a heart-wrenching story on a the effects of deforestation on the indigenous Jambi tribe in central Sumatra. For them, losing the forest means losing their homes.
And the Spanish wire EFE reports that the Brazilian Amazon lost 75 square km of forest in November. In the same month last year, the figure assumes that deforestation increased by 21%, said the study by the Institute of Man and Environment in Amazonia (Imazon).
The French biotech committee HCB released a statement on Monsato Maize yesterday, Reuters reported. The French Body says more research is needed for MON 810 to assess its environmental impact. This comes months after the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) released a favorable opinion on the renewal of the license for the maize type, back in June.
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Comments
Un fracaso, pero no hay que bajar los brazos, lástima los viáticos que que cobrem hoy no estoy científica.
Posted by: Laura Baeatriz Paroni Perez | December 24, 2009 8:30 PM
ok, si los jodo, no me envién nada más.
Posted by: Laura Baeatriz Paroni Perez | December 24, 2009 8:34 PM
i want to jont greenpeace. What do i do that
Posted by: tranxuandang | December 28, 2009 9:58 AM
@Tranxuandang:
Hi, check out our Get Involved page of the Greenpeace International website for volunteer, online, and job opportunities: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/getinvolved
Posted by: Anne-Marije Rook | December 28, 2009 10:06 AM