Two wheels to Copenhagen: Archive

Dec 17th

“Fantastic stuff. Well done you both. Very proud of you.”

– Tim Scoones, Executive Producer, “Springwatch”, “Autumnwatch” & “BBC Earth” BBC Natural History Unit

Dec 16th

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Back home

Back home in Devon now. Train, boat, train (and just a bit of cycling). A luxurious way to travel quite a long distance! Was the trip worth it? Well for me, an environmental campaigner for whom climate change has become the overarching mother of all issues, absolutely. Dipping into events at the Peoples Summit has also pushed ‘climate justice’ much more into my face. At work, I focus...

Dec 16th

Back home

From me, some final reflections: I wore a blue ‘milli-band’ (see previous photo) from the Bristol 350 action weekend until Copenhagen. A sort of promise to myself - many of my students at University can also be seen sporting these. On reflection I was inspired by the deep understanding of the issues by the youth and the people from the ‘poor’ counties. Also their creativity, spirit and values. I...

Dec 16th

Dec 15th

Dear Marcus and Mark: I was talking by phone to Helen this morning and asked her to send us good reporting on Copenhagen which is sadly missing from the local mainstream press [USA], and she mentioned your trip and blog and there it was on Google. I wish we had gone to Copenhagen too, looking at your photos of the non-governmental meetings. We went to a UN Habitat conference in Vancouver many...

Dec 15th

Stats from the Cop15 blog

318 visits Monday 7th-Monday 14th 188 unique visitors 3 mins 13seconds - average time on site from each visitor

Dec 15th

“How brilliant that you made that trip that way!!! :)”

– Heather Luna, Education for Sustainable Development Project Coordinator, Higher Education Academy

Dec 15th

“It is snowing! We are freezing and soaking and blind on our bikes and very lost...”

– From the Warwick Students’s blog Original post Dec 15th am.

Dec 15th

The police

From the Warwick Students’s blog I wanted to paraphrase a little of a workshop we witnessed over breakfast, back in the tent we were in last night. An native american older man gave his words of wisdom. He talked about a society run on fear. He told of Hare Krishnas being arrested. Of people held in cages where police climbed ontop and sprayed tear gas inside. He did talk a lot of ‘how it used...

Dec 15th

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UK Youth Delegation to Copenhagen →

From the Warwick Students’s blog Here’s a good site for COP15 inside info…

Dec 15th

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The bicycling

Warwick student’s blog re-post Is not over yet. Having our bikes in Copenhagen has been amazing as we have been cycling all over the city - chasing the demos and going from space to space. We can’t help but notice the fantastic, efficient, inspiring facilities for cyclists. Unlike in the UK, here we are treated as primary commuters - cycle routes are nearly as wide as roads, on every road...

Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Updates The Warwick student cycling group, Jesse (Marcus’s daughter), Owen and Charlie are in Copenhagen until Thursday mid-day. Visit their blog at http://warwickcycle2copenhagen.tumblr.com. We will repost any big developments at the people’s summit and good photos onto this site. Marcus and Mark

Dec 15th

Dec 12th

BirdLife International Workshop

I popped into a workshop session being run at DOF (the Danish BirdLife partner) where 20 or so climate focused people from BL partners from around the world were meeting. They were focused on the so called REDD element of the negotiations - avoiding the loss to the atmosphere of the massive amount of carbon locked up in the worlds forests (including the boreal systems). Great to see a load of...

Dec 12th

Morning news

We woke up to find the following in a Danish national paper Seven of the world’s largest computer companies promise greater CO2 reduction than most of the rich countries work towards. The ‘Green IT-Panel’ met last night at a panel discussion (Microsoft, Konica, Minalta, Intel, HP, Fujitsu, Dell and Cisco) promising reductins between 20-40%. IBM and Apple are also active in this...

Dec 12th

Copenhagen fever - RSPB news blog →

For insightful commentary from inside the COP15 sessions, see what the RSPB/BirdLife International lead climate staff are saying. Includes good links to Met Office guides to climate change - precise, concise and easy to access. Mark

Dec 12th