The International Advertising Association has teamed up with Coca Cola, SAP and Siemens to run a high profile campaign for the Copenhagen summit. They’ve definitely got a great website, all credit to the lads and lasses. They’ve sold us a lot of Plasma TVs and Chicken Nuggets so its good to have them on board. Continue reading ‘Hopenhagen, Schmopenhagen’
Monthly Archive for November, 2009
In an astonishing display of hypocrisy, Pascal Lamy, the head of the WTO, has called for “a system to assist human society to achieve its common purpose in a sustainable manner, that is, with equity and justice“.
He goes on to say that “the very credibility of domestic democracies is at risk if global governance does not find its own democratic credentials. If citizens feel that the issues which affect them daily cannot be adequately dealt with.” Continue reading ‘Vacuous talk from the head of the WTO’
The US is scaling down hopes for a deal at the critical climate change talks in Copenhagen, suggesting that it doesn’t have enough time to work out what it can commit to before December, and looking at a date ‘late next year’. Obama’s playing for time to find a solution that will avoid major curbs on US industry (so that he can get re-elected) while also committing to reduction of carbon emissions. Continue reading ‘US says it won’t commit at Copenhagen’