by Joseph Siegel | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Joe Siegel November 30, 2010: I am blogging from COP-16/CMP-6 in Cancun, Mexico. I arrived on day 2 of the two week Conference and will be here for one week. My traveling companion is my 15 year old son. Today’s youth will inherit the problem of climate change...
by David Cassuto | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
David Cassuto (x-post from Animal Blawg) We’re often told (because it’s true) that 10 billion animals are killed for food in this country every year. The implications of that number for climate change, water and air pollution, and animal suffering are...
by cs25619w | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Matt Jokajtys, Guest Student Blogger currently at UNFCCC-Cancun It’s the first day of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention, and I can’t imagine a more different conference from what I experienced in Copenhagen last year. The...
by cs25619w | Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Matt Jokajtys, Guest Student Blogger currently at UNFCCC-Cancun Last week, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon observed in a speech at Seton Hall University that “[g]one are the days when one country or bloc could take big steps, almost by fiat. Truly global action on...