Hopenhagen

A little over a year ago, I won an international competition to be the citizen representative of Hopenhagen at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhag...

Winning this opportunity is an enormous honor--especially because many other contestants were worthy and capable of representing you. I thus asked a few other contestants for their messages of hope.

The talks at Copenhagen failed not just because of world leaders, but also due to the fact that while many people of the world say they want action on climate change, they rate the issue as a low priority.

Maybe we can't look only to our heads of state to solve this challenge. Maybe we need to look to our local leaders. Maybe we need to look to ourselves.

I did something that I've always wanted to do: ride a bike away from an airport.

I am hopeful that we can dispense with this smokescreen soon and get on with the tough business of fashioning an environmentally sound, cost-effective and equitable set of rules to save our planet.

With only days until the Copenhagen climate conference, hopes for tangible commitments from the world's leaders are higher than ever. 100 citizens of...

I'm joining Hopenhagen because everything I love and care about is at stake. I do not want the day to come when my daughters ask us why we did not do more.

The important people are your friends and your friends' friends...They are the people who you can influence.

By the end of this weekend's protests in Copenhagen, around 1,100 people had been arrested. The arrests, part of a pattern all week, felt like a warning: deviations from the "Hopenhagen" message will not be tolerated.

It's halfway through the conference, negotiations have barely moved an inch, and climate advocates are enraged at the lack of progress. How and why did we lose the dream of Hopenhagen?

Right now we are trapped in a dangerous cycle: borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf, and then burn it in ways that destroys the planet. Every bit of that has got to change.

With the countdown to COP15 under way, Hopenhagen.org will be releasing three videos these next few weeks to bring voice to the citizens of Hopenhagen...

Most people don't know it, but the fate of the world is at stake this December. The UN is holding a Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark where th...

At the Brandenburg gate, which once sat in "no-man's land" between East and West Berlin, I wondered if, 20 years from now, abandoned coal power plants will be nothing more than museums.

Today young people are being turned away from the Bella Center in droves because far too many passes were given out by the United Nations.

Good news in Hopenhagen yesterday was the bold and binding proposal tabled by a group of small island countries in a last minute scrum against the backdrop of youth activists who had turned up.

It is the poorest and least responsible who are having to bear the brunt of the climate challenge as rising temperatures exacerbate poverty, hunger and vulnerability to disease for billions of people.

We are uniquely poised now, with the support of our barrier-breaking and visionary president, to chart an un-navigated course with innovation and sustainability as our guides. We have a renewable commitment to change.

It's not just world leaders who carry an enormous responsibility to improve the globe's climate in the future; the responsibility also weighs on individual cities and individual people.

Al Gore reminded us today of how far we've come. He recalled that in Kyoto, only one head of state was in attendance. Now over 160 arrived to negotiate.

I asked Desmond "What gives you hope that we can solve climate change?"

Pointing the country toward a clean energy future is going to be a big job, requiring the skills of all of us -- carpenters, metal fabricators, tool and dye makers, scientists, truck drivers, software designers, engineers and others.