Alex Carlin's News Articles

Reflections on COP15, Looking Ahead to COP16

by Alex Carlin — February 9, 2010 - 11:40am

Topics: Global Warming, Environment, International

Copenhagen Out of the Frying Pan, Part 8
Publisher's Note: I asked our guest writer, Alex Carlin, to send along a wrap-up piece reflecting on his experience at COP15, and looking ahead to COP16 later this year. He graciously agreed, and here are his reflections on the conference and climate change. --Lisa Graves, Executive Director

Now We Know Where Things Stand at COP15

by Alex Carlin — December 16, 2009 - 12:52pm

Topics: Global Warming

Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 7 On my way to the final day of the COP15 Conference I stopped off at an exhibit called the Climate Maze. If you ever wanted to get lost in a labyrinth of hedges this is pretty close, but the walls are covered with pieces of canvas, each piece having one person's signature--multitudes of missives were delivered from every region of the globe.

COP15, Ways to Get More Specific for Change

by Alex Carlin — December 15, 2009 - 8:33pm

Topics: Environment

Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 6 I stopped in on an event moderated by George Monbiot (the fine columnist from UK's "The Guardian" newspaper ) at Klimaforum dealing with how things are going and how we should proceed. He was taking comments from the large audience--a major hall filled to near capacity. Missing were heads of state.

Deal or No Deal at COP15?

by Alex Carlin — December 15, 2009 - 6:59pm

Topics: Environment

Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Pt. 5

I walked into the Klimaforum hall and saw a group of newly arrived Bolivians organizing themselves near the entrance.

Rising Tides, Slow Food & Global Warming

by Alex Carlin — December 15, 2009 - 6:58am

Copenhagen, Out of the Frying Pan, Part 4

Allow me to apologize for the delay in filing this report, but as we were walking back to our base in Christiania, we were blocked by shoulder to shoulder police and their vans. Christiania was again under seige, and I haven't been able to get to an internet access until now. My next report will have some general information about this amazing phenomena called "Christiania", this city within the city. Tonight, I'll play a concert there and see how things have settled since the rather large battle last night.

"There Is No Planet 'B'"

by Alex Carlin — December 15, 2009 - 6:57am

Topics: Environment

Copenhagen Out of the Frying Pan, Part 3
Walking to the starting point of the demonstration and march we felt lucky that for the 12th of December it was a pretty nice day. It seems quite important now to show big numbers on the streets and exert some of that "people power" that we will need to break the inertia on global climate action.