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Live in Cancun for the UN Climate Talks
Over the next two weeks, world leaders will be deciding our climate future at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. TckTckTck team members will be in Cancun tracking their progress towards a fair, ambitious and legally-binding climate treaty....
Today we took things into our own hands -- lots and lots of hands.
By Joshua WieseThe message is clear. In the face of gushing oil wells off the coast of the Americas and Africa, disastrous heat waves and floods across Asia, the fastest melting of sea ice ever seen in the Arctic - we have problem and we’re going...
Mary Robinson Foundation builds women's leadership on climate action
New York is buzzing with excitement (and traffic jams) this week as hundreds of leaders -- business, government, NGOs and others -- descend on the city for the opening of the UN General Assembly and the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals...
Getting ready for the next round of Bonn Climate Change Talks
The Adopt a Negotiator trackers are packing our bags for Bonn and eager to get this next round of UN climate talks underway. You can follow the efforts of our team of trackers through the TckTckTck Fresh Air Center, or on our site. Before the...
Climate Legislation Continues To Languish in U.S. Senate
After months of delay and uncertainty, the U.S. Senate appeared ready to move forward with climate and energy legislation last week with the introduction of a draft outline of the bill known as the American Power Act, co-sponsored by Senators John...
Christiana Figueres, climate negotiator from Costa Rica, named UN climate chief
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has named Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres to be the organization's top official on climate change, his spokesman announced Monday. UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the 53-year-old Costa Rican, currently San Jose's...
The crisis comes ashore: Why the oil spill could change everything
By Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled...
"Petersberg Climate Dialogue" wraps up in Bonn, Germany
Environment ministers and high-level government officials wrapped up an informal meeting earlier this week in Bonn, Germany where they began discussions on drafting a new international climate change treaty for the next major United Nation's...
People's Agreement released following WPCCC in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger. If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead to, there is a 50% probability that the damages caused to...
An Interview with Bolivian Activist Peregrina Kusse Viza: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamam
On Monday, the top US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, admitted that a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions may not even be possible at the next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun. Stern’s comments came after the US...
Watch OneClimate.net LIVE from Cochabamba, Bolivia and the World People's Conference
TckTckTck and OneClimate.net are pleased to provide a live streaming feed of news and events at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. For background information on the World People...
Bonn Climate Talks Fail to Demonstrate Progress
Climate negotiations resumed in Bonn, Germany last weekend following the failed outcome of the COP 15 talks in Copenhagen, but continued to show few signs of progress toward reaching a fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement...
