It should also be no surprise that CFACT and Tom Harris are collaborating once again — this time on something called
the Copenhagen Climate Challenge.
I guess my next challenge is to tabulate the 141 signers of this new
Copenhagen Climate Challenge — lots of familiar names on first glance.
CFACT hosted an event called
The Copenhagen Climate Challenge at the same time as the COP15 conference in Copenhagen.
Not exact matches
The resulting
Copenhagen Accord is supported by over 120 countries making up over 80 percent of global emissions and outlines key elements that are essential to a long term solution to the
climate change
challenge.
[UPDATED, 3/2, below] The lead story in The Times is a significant review of the
challenges and opportunities awaiting nations on the road to December
climate talks in
Copenhagen.
With the developing world now generating half the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, one of the thorniest
challenges facing
climate change negotiators in
Copenhagen will be apportioning national reduction targets in coming decades.
166
climate scientists signed the
Copenhagen Challenge to Ban Ki Moon and > 700 international scientists made submissions to the US Senate dissenting from the «consensus».
Tom Harris, Executive Director of the International
Climate Science Coalition, presents the
Climate Challenge at the
Climate Sense Conference in
Copenhagen.
International Alliance of Research Universities,
Climate Change: Global Risks,
Challenges & Decisions, Synthesis Report from International Scientific Congress (
Copenhagen: University of
Copenhagen, 2009), pp. 18 — 19.
King once remarked that «
climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism», that it is the «biggest
challenge our civilisation has ever had», and that foreign spies and US energy interests were behind attempts to undermine public confidence in
climate science and the attempt to build an international agreement at
Copenhagen.
Rather than nominate such broad goals, the
Copenhagen Consensus Expert Panel was presented with nearly 40 specific investment proposals designed by experts to reduce the
challenges of Armed Conflict, Biodiversity Destruction, Chronic Disease,
Climate Change, Education Shortages, Hunger and Malnutrition, Infectious Disease, Natural Disasters, Population Growth, and Water and Sanitation Shortages.
International Alliance of Research Universities,
Climate Change: Global Risks,
Challenges & Decisions, Synthesis Report from International Scientific Congress (
Copenhagen: University of
Copenhagen, 2009).
Like MTV's
Copenhagen Climate Video Contest or TreeHugger's own Convenient Truths Green Video contest, the idea is to engage youth on practical ways that they can apply their skills and knowledge to tackle the
challenges we face as a species.