Live from Copenhagen

CoolPlanet2009 team visit COP15

Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:49

CoolPlanet2009 team visited the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen and decided to create a short video report to give our CoolPlanet2009 visitors a glance of what’s it like at the conference and hear the views of the conference participants.  

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Melting ice sculptures symbolizing climate change

Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:00

As COP15 negotiations are getting closer to an end, the ice bridge and polar bear statues in Copenhagen city centre are about to melt away…

”When people touch that bear, they are touching the Arctic. Because that sculpture is not a sculpture of a polar bear, it’s a sculpture of the Arctic, explained the animal sculptor Mark Coreth to Aftenposten.no, while finishing the last details of his ice sculpture last week.

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Save Copenhagen: Real Deal Now!

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 09:59

With 3 days left of the crucial Copenhagen climate conference Avaaz.org, an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization, is aiming to put together the largest petition in history, in the next 72 hours. The petition for a real deal in Copenhagen already has a staggering 10 million supporters. An Avaaz team is meeting daily with negotiators inside the summit who will organize a spectacular petition delivery to world leaders as they arrive, building a giant wall of boxes of names and reading out the names of every person who signs.

"With the largest petition in history, leaders will have no doubt that the whole world is watching", the Avaaz team says.

Click below to sign 
http://www.avaaz.org/en/copenhagencrisis

Earth hour today! Don’t forget!

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 00:00

Join the WWF's Earth Hour campaign tonight and turn off your light at 7 pm.

If you are in Copenhagen you can go to the Planetarium at 4 pm to make lanterns for the lantern procession. The singers Simon Mathew and Ida Corr will be performing in the Planetarium at 5 pm, and at 6 pm the lantern procession will walk through Tivoli and enter the town hall square (Hopenhagen) at 7 pm when Copenhagen turns off the light of the city.

In Hopenhagen LIVE the Globe will also be turned off and from the stage music and beautiful words will fill the darkness.

So come join the Coolplanet team and the rest of Copenhagen when we unite in darkness in a show of support for a brighter future.

Exclusive meeting with Al Gore

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 12:42

Yesterday, the CoolPlanet2009 team had the pleasure of joining a small and informal evening meeting with Al Gore at the Danish Film Institute.

The meeting took place in a small cinema room where Al Gore was introduced by the president of the GoodPlanet Foundation Yann Arthus-Bertrand – a well-known French photographer and environmentalist and a CoolPlanet2009 cool friend.

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Magnus the Lucia bride from Commute Greener

Monday, 14 December 2009 14:40

On our way around Copenhagen, the Coolplanet team ran into Swedish Magnus Holmqvist dressed up as a Lucia bride. Magnus was out promoting Commute Greener by Volvo - a system that turns your mobile phone into a personal CO2 calculator, helping you to reduce personal and global CO2 footprints.

We asked him why he was out in freezing Copenhagen dressed up as a Lucia bride.

“I’m here to get individuals involved. By using Commute Greener you can set your target, see to that you reach it and then you can even share with your friends in a friendly competition.”

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Earth is calling – Enjoy a COP15 meal

Monday, 14 December 2009 00:00

Yesterday the Coolplanet2009 team went to have an organic and climate friendly three-course meal with local people at the Copenhagen House of Food (Københavns Madhus).

100 volunteers had gathered to help out at the COP15 restaurant, which was open from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 December. A local volunteer, Mette Vinther Hansen, joined us for dinner and told us about her motivation to volunteer at the House of Food.

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Tutu demanding climate aid to developing countries

Monday, 14 December 2009 00:00

Copenhagen City Square was filled with people when the South African archbishop and Nobel peace prize laureate Desmond Tutu entered the stage and handed UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer the 512.894 signatures from the global campaign Countdown to CO2penhagen.

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