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Posts tagged: G8
Toronto Mayor calls for G20 leadership on climate change
There’s only one way to start this note, and that’s the story of how we met. Me: “Mayor Miller. A pleasure.” Mayor: “Ah yes, Zoe Caron of WWF.” Me: “…You know me?” Mayor: “You’re …wearing a massive name tag. Two of them.”
Posted by Zoë Caron
Video: Resistance and cooperation at the G20 Summit
Media coverage of this week’s G20 Summit focused on “violent” protests and police crackdowns, however more than 10,000 demonstrators braved the rains on Saturday to join a peaceful march and rally.
Posted by Sara Falconer
G20: Climate Stagnation
The latest G20 meeting has ended with only a few brief words about the green economy and a recycled statement on fossil fuel subsidies. It’s not enough. Sustainable economic recovery will need serious commitments on climate change, climate finance and support for low-carbon fuels.
Posted by Sara Falconer
Video: Are the world leaders serious about “green economy”?
Breaking any addiction is difficult — especially the coal, oil and gas addiction that is the main cause of climate change. The world’s most powerful economies met over three days in Canada to talk about pressing issues such as security and economic recovery. Environment was not on top of their minds.
Posted by Ashwini Prabha
Canadians say: We told you so
The G8 and G20 Summits were by no means revolutionary on climate change, environment, biodiversity, or energy transformation. But if there’s one thing that came of this, it’s that Canadians are completely aware that climate change is a top-of-mind issue, and that the world leaders are out of step with this thinking.
Posted by Zoë Caron
A skeleton , a pool of water and a powerful environmental message: The creation of the Ice Bear Project
The Ice Bear Project came to me as an idea when I was working and studying on the sea ice off Bylot Island in early May 2009. As a sculptor, it is easy to create beauty, most particularly when one is working in an environment of such extreme majesty, with breathtaking views: bears, seals, bird life and marine life, bergs, rocks, cliffs and the the people… TOTAL magnificence. But when I learned from my Inuit guides of the increasing fragility of the ice, and saw first hand the effects of a changing climate, I realized that my body of work would be incomplete without producing something that will shout about the issue.
Posted by Guest Blogger
Marching for a clean energy economy
It’s a strange thing to be in Toronto for a G8/G20 summits. In a way it feels almost like a medieval scene. Each day motorcades of world leaders races through the city, parting pedestrians and traffic. It isn’t hard to imagine ancient royalty being pulled by several horse-drawn chariots.
Posted by Zoë Caron
Video: At the Table G8/G20 press conference: Summit leaders must keep promises and invest in the future now
Gerry Barr, Chair of Make Poverty History Canada, and Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF Global Climate Initiative speaking at the G8/G20 “At the Table” Press Conference. Worldwide petitions call on summit leaders to keep promises. Advocates say that a financial transaction tax is needed to invest in the future. Now.
Posted by Sara Falconer
The power of art
This morning I left the traditional G8 media coverage to something a little different: a visit the Ice Bear. Luckily, I got there before it melted into a puddle, and in time to tell reporters the Ice Bear story of why climate change matters at the G8 and G20.
Posted by Zoë Caron
Thank you India
Hey! Read this! Big news today! India announced it was making some serious reforms on fossil fuels that included the phasing out of subsidies on petrol, diesel, kerosene, and natural gas.
Posted by Zoë Caron
Melting hearts and changing minds: The Ice Bear Project at the G20
The Ice Bear, a life-sized polar bear sculpture carved from 10 tonnes of ice covering a 500 kg bronze skeleton, was carved in downtown Toronto yesterday, just in time for the G20 Summit. WWF-Canada staff shared the experience.
Posted by Sara Falconer
We mean business about climate change: Watch us on BNN
A fitting G8/G20 horoscope for me as I opened the newspaper this morning: “Chances are you will find yourself at odds with what the rest of the world seems to believe today, but you are not the sort to change your opinions to suit other people. You’re right, they’re wrong – it’s that simple.”
Posted by Zoë Caron
Sign o’ the times
It’s amazing to see how fast things can be put together when there’s political will behind it. I was in downtown Toronto this morning, and was seriously tempted to try and climb the three-metre-high fences. There were more police uniforms in one spot than a Vegas showing of YMCA and I felt like I was on the movie-set for Fortress 3.
Posted by Zoë Caron
Canada’s declining image
An interesting segment on CBC’s The National last night focused on Canada’s image abroad. Things aren’t looking so good, mostly because of our environmental record.
Posted by Zoë Caron
G20: Keep your fingers crossed…
It’s taking a lot of optimism to feel good about the recent okay-fine-if-we-have-to inclusion of climate change on the G20 agenda. We’ve been told that it still won’t be an official agenda item, but it will be inevitably discussed on the sidelines when the world’s leaders gather in Toronto later this month.
Posted by Zoë Caron
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