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Beyond Copenhagen: Can this new hotel be ‘World’s Greenest’?

After hosting delegates for the COP15 conference last December, a new Copenhagen hotel is promising to be one of the world’s greenest – pouncing on the growing trend of hotel chains expanding their offerings outside of guest comfort alone.

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Too big to fail: tourism industry biggest factor in climate change

As one of the largest global industries of the modern era, travel and tourism not only sets the standard on climate change, but also serves as an example of how to fight it.

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Here comes the sun: 2010 expected to be hottest year yet

According to scientific predictions made by the Met Office, 2010 will be the world’s warmest year on record with man-made climate change a huge factor.

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Is COP15 on the right track, or a losing battle?

With the Copenhagen Climate Conference off and running, former Vice President Al Gore takes a hard look at the numbers, and doesn’t like what he sees.

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Put away the pitchforks, people – climate change is still real

Last week’s climate change email “scandal” has sent both sides of the argument into an absolute tizzy. Let’s try to clear the air once and for all.

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Timberland’s new climate change campaign ‘gets things done’

Timberland’s new political campaign, “Don’t Tell Us It Can’t Be Done,” takes a hard-hitting approach to socio-political change in line with next month’s COP15.

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Looming climate change adds even more stress to humanitarian aid

With climate change-related disasters frequently occurring throughout the world, humanitarian aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the increasing demands of affected communities.

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Can the U.S. set the stage for a successful Copenhagen Climate Change Conference?

The United States is the only developed nation that has not committed to an emissions target. Poorer nations are threatening to stage a walk-out of the UN summit in Copenhagen next month unless President Obama commits to an ambitious carbon reduction.

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All aboard the month-long Climate Change Express to Copenhagen

The Climate Change Express is a one-month, 9,000-kilometer journey that symbolically joins the site of the last global warming pact with what is hoped to be the birthplace of the next major, and stricter, treaty to combat climate change.

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What needs to happen for the Copenhagen Climate Change summit to be a success?

With a little over one month to go before the UN summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, a handful of benchmarks will determine the success of this international gathering of the minds.

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How arctic warming affects the entire world, not just polar bears

A new study by WWF indicates that warming in the Arctic will have devastating consequences on the entire planet due to harmful greenhouse gases and significant shifts in global weather patterns that could disrupt the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people – all at a much worse rate than previously predicted.

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Tell your Senator to support climate legislation!

The World Wildlife Fund is urging voters to put pressure on their State’s Senators to support climate legislation in Washington with the “Act for Our Future” campaign; a national public awareness campaign that supports legislation that would help protect the nation and the world from the devastating impacts of climate change.

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Tunza youth call for governments to ‘Seal the Deal!’ action against climate change

Young people from around the world have challenged world leaders to take radical, positive measures to combat the problem of climate change in preparation for the U.N. summit in Copenhagen this winter. Approximately 700 young people – ranging from 10 to 24 years old – created the largest global youth gathering on climate change in history.

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The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning takes the stage in Copenhagen

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has partnered with Canada’s Polar Cap Production’s, Inc. to present Mark Terry’s new climate change documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning in Copenhagen during this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, December 7 to 18, 2009.

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Green economy of tomorrow: Youth of the world take on Climate Change

The biggest-ever youth gathering on climate change is calling for real action in time for this December’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen. The Tunza International Children and Youth Conference, representing three billion people – the children and youth of the planet – are planning to converge on the Republic of Korea on August 17-23 to voice their demands for action on climate change and rally support for the December conference.

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Building on a message of ‘Hope’ against climate change

The United Nations is launching a new global campaign – ‘Hopenhagen’ – to harness action prior to this December’s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Joined by the International Advertising Association (IAA) and other media agencies, the U.N aims to empower people and generate mass activation around the world in order to adjust the fate of the planet.

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