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7 Years Ago At Kyoto

Posted by Guest Blogger | March 1, 2010

By Economic High School

7 years ago, at Kyoto, states have decided that it’s time to take measures to reduce global warming, namely to reduce greenhouse gases. What’s interesting here is that although the conceptual level is how things can be simple when it comes to implementation …. it become very hard.

Interview Someone in Your School or Community

Posted by Guest Blogger | February 4, 2010

Interview someone in your school or community and tell us what people know about the connection between poverty and climate change and why it is important to combat both.

Interviewed:  Silvia Zabulica, teacher of geography at the “Prometeu-Prim” lyceum. 

Madagascar Delegate

Posted by Guest Blogger | February 4, 2010

By Won Sang Yoo
From CheongShim International Academy

Ladies and gentlemen I am the delegate of Madagascar to tell why the climate treaty in Copenhagen is an action which the world must take. I would like to start off by giving you five words: Present, Future, Urgency, Responsibility, and Abundant. These five words are explaining the reasons for the need of the climate treaty in Copenhagen.

Stop Kicking Us With Carbon! We’re trying to Prosper Too You Know!

Posted by Guest Blogger | February 4, 2010

By Abraham Williamson
From Lindale High School

Haiti desperately requires a treaty in Copenhagen for numerous reasons. We haven’t contributed to CO2 emissions, but we suffer incredibly from emissions. We need to reach an agreement in which those responsible for the damage pay for the detriment as well as make the shift from fossil fuels to alternative energy. If this treaty goes undeveloped Haiti could drift into oblivion, perpetually wounded by gargantuous problems with zero solutions.

For Developing Countries, Why is a Comprehensive Climate Treaty in Copenhagen Necessary?

Posted by Guest Blogger | February 4, 2010

By Brittany Cox, Rachel Hickling, Ashley Johnson
From Calvary Baptist Day School

While not completely effective to date, the Kyoto Protocol, through the requirement that countries reduce carbon emissions to 6% below their 1990 levels, has served to aid global climate change.  However, this protocol runs out soon.  In December, 2009, approximately 170 countries will be represented at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen for the express goal of creating a new and more effective protocol.

What the World Needs Now is Cooperation

Posted by Guest Blogger | November 17, 2009

By Jake Roach, Lindale High School

The old song, “What the World Needs Now is Love”, can be changed, just a little, to “What the World Needs Now is Cooperation”.  Two of the major problems surrounding our world would be both poverty and climate change.  Most people would not think of these to problems coinciding with one another, but we know they relate to one another, and that the United Nations is trying to slow both down at the same time.

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