Johann Hari, 12.10.2009
Columnist, London Independent
The first week of Copenhagen is being dominated by the representatives of the rich countries trying to lace the deal with Enron-style accounting tricks that will give the impression of cuts, without the reality.
Timothy LaSalle, 12.10.2009
CEO of the Rodale Institute.
Climate scientist James Hansen has been educating his peers and the public about the realities of global climate change since the 1980s. He's publicly...
Richard Hall, 12.10.2009
Human rights, labour rights and the far right.
Time is running out for world leaders to agree on a deal to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently enough to prevent catastrophic climate change. The co...
Kevin Grandia, 12.10.2009
Managing editor, DeSmogBlog.com
It looks like Christopher Monckton, the head of the right-wing CFACT delegation at the Copenhagen climate talks, is unfamiliar with Godwin's Law of Na...
May Jeong, 12.10.2009
May is a youth activist and a journalist who reports on green issues who is currently reporting from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Wednesday, Todd Stern, Climate Envoy to the United States, dismissed the notion of developed countries owing financial reparations - otherwise known as climate debt - from CO2 emissions.
Anuradha Vittachi, 12.10.2009
Global justice activist
Tuvalu wants to ensure that global temperatures won't rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can see why: if it does, their island could disappear beneath the sea forever.
Bill Scher, 12.10.2009
OurFuture.org, LiberalOasis.com, WHMP, author of “Wait! Don’t Move To Canada!”
Is the international summit torn now between resolutions saying global warming is a moral imperative or a dastardly hoax perpetrated by the sinister scientist conspiracy? Hardly.
Bob Dinneen, 12.10.2009
President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
As negotiators from approximately 200 countries convene in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate change conference, there's one issue on which the world's wealthier and poorer nations should be able to agree:
Alexia Parks, 12.10.2009
Speaker, Author: "OM Money Money," "Rapid Evolution," and "An American GULAG"
Today's most interesting Climate Change conversation may not be taking place in policy discussions in Copenhagen, but at the Power-Gen International conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jeremy Nichols, 12.10.2009
Climate and Energy Program Director, WildEarth Guardians
All the renewable energy in the world can't and won't make up for the fact that unless Colorado starts cutting back on coal burning, greenhouse gases are going to keep climbing.
Lincoln Mitchell, 12.10.2009
Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia University
If you commissioned an ad firm to come up with a two word description of the economy that would provoke great feelings of anger and resentment, they'd have a tough time coming up with something better than "jobless recovery."
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 12.10.2009
Co-Hosts, Green News Report
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama's Nobel 'green' Prize?; Climate talks -- and protests -- continue in Copenhagen... PLUS: What should we call the deca...
Andrew Shapiro, 12.10.2009
Founder and President, GreenOrder
We must expand the scope of our efforts and remember that the future of our climate will not be determined solely in Copenhagen or even in Congress.
Billy Parish, 12.10.2009
Founder, Energy Action Coalition
Today is "Young and Future Generations Day" here at the International Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, and I'm here with my wife Wahleah and our tw...
Michael Meehan, 12.10.2009
President and CEO, Carbonetworks
The US capitalizes on markets, and COP15 is a moment where it must seize the opportunity with climate change. But COP15 also represents an economic risk if we don't act because there are serious contenders abroad.
Sarah van Gelder, 12.10.2009
Co-Founder and Executive Editor of YES! Magazine, www.yesmagazine.org
Few believe the Copenhagen Summit will result in a deal strong enough to keep climate change within safe limits.
Little wonder. Global warming could ...
Bill Chameides, 12.10.2009
Dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, member of the National Academy of Sciences, TheGreenGrok.com
Sarah Palin, the former GOP VP contender from Alaska, and James Hansen, a climate scientist with NASA, agree: Copenhagen should fail. (See here and he...
Carl Pope, 12.10.2009
Executive Director of the Sierra Club
The White House, Washington, DC -- Even though our meeting with President Obama was off the record, I don't think the White House will mind my quoting...
Jennifer Schneider, 12.10.2009
Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines
I worry that important discussions might be left out when all we worry about are the pragmatics of getting the public to care, or with getting an agreement in Copenhagen, no matter the cost.
William S. Becker, 12.10.2009
Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project
The Obama Administration must get serious about using its regulatory authority to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions well below the levels being considered on Capitol Hill.
James M. Gentile, 12.10.2009
President of Research Corporation for Science Advancement
The controversy surrounding the stolen emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit continues to swirl, but it's important to se...