Environment and development groups from around the world condemned the U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern's recent statement* at Dartmouth College renouncing a limit of 2°C temperature rise as a global goal for UN climate negotiations. Mr Stern said that agreeing to a framework to achieve the 2C goal would "only lead to deadlock" and that a new agreement should give countries … [Read more...]
Join us for candlelight vigil for climate change
Take an early afternoon off from work (beat the traffic!) and join a bunch of concerned citizens (including Rob Zipplies, back from his epic climate change awareness-raising cycle from Cape Town, via Joburg and Pretoria to Durban) for a symbolic candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Westlake, Cape Town. Bring a candle, a jar to protect the flame (or a candle cut-out … [Read more...]
