hoffmand on December 9th, 2009

After the Fossil of the Day awards yesterday, I was wandering around the conference center center, when I noticed a gathering of people. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but two words drew me in… Africa Unite. I shuffled my way into the crowed and tried to figure out what was going on. The people […]

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Brandon McCall on November 24th, 2009

One common consensus reached by all parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is that global warming is happening and needs to be addressed.  However, with this is the dilemma of how to set standards that are common yet differentiated.  For instance, should nations like China that currently out-produce the United States […]

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hoffmand on September 21st, 2009

In Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion, John Whalley and Sean Walsh declare that prospects for a satisfactory outcome from COP 15 are daunting. I might add intimidating, overwhelming, and frightening, but that’s just me. We’re talking about nearly 200 countries, representing 6.7 billion people, coming together to discuss, in two weeks, […]

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