Involving Global Opinion in the Climate Debate: Denmark Launches Climate Change Web Platform With Google

September 29th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Morris Polich & Purdy LLP is pleased to announce that, for the first time, four of the world's leading climate change experts came together at 4pm on 29th September 2009 to explain, in layman's terms, what climate change really is. The seminar, designed for insurance professionals, was held in the Old Library of the Lloyd's building in London.

September 28th, 2009 ZURICH - - Indication: Picture can be downloaded free of charge under: www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100003893/?langid=2 - On 1 and 2 October 2009, Geneva will be buzzing with energy, when the vanguard of Europe's renewables sector gathers at the 6th European Conference on Green Power Marketing 2009 to tackle the "future of green power". The agenda is ambitious: how continue the market expansion of former years in the "challenging times" of today? Geneva 2009 is set to pinpoint opportunities for growth despite the economic downturn.

September 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Report says action on climate adaptation may significantly reduce losses and increase economic sustainability. A report from the Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group released today indicates that climate risks could cost nations up to 19% of their GDP by 2030, with developing countries most vulnerable.

August 26th, 2009 COPENHAGEN - With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) lurking in the near future, innovative designers are finding new ways of battling climate change. Can a curtain store and save energy? Yes, and it is just one of many new Danish design concepts that will be presented at the international exhibition 'It's a Small World' during the upcoming Copenhagen Design Week.

July 5th, 2009 L'AQUILA, Italy - - Action by Scientists Underscores Urgency of National Progress and Global Negotiations A group of the world's top climate scientists today called on the leaders of the world's major economies to adopt strong measures to address climate change, including a peak in global emissions before 2020. In a letter addressed to Ministers and Heads of State attending this week's G8 summit and Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Italy, the climate scientists, including several senior government climate science advisors, make specific requests for policy action and warn that failure to reduce emissions presents "unacceptable risks." The scientists are calling for action from world leaders whose nations represent around 70% of global carbon abatement potential.

June 22nd, 2009 CANNES, France - - Global Campaign to Harness Action around the UN Climate Change Conference The United Nations, the International Advertising Association (IAA), and a coalition of the world's leading advertising, marketing and media agencies today launched Hopenhagen -- a movement that empowers global citizens to engage in the December United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) -- at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Hopenhagen, hopenhagen.org, is a global marketing and communications initiative that will inspire and generate mass activation around the world.

May 26th, 2009 SEOUL, South Korea - Mayors of major metropolitan cities around the world adopted the "Seoul Declaration" at the Third C40 Large Cities Climate Summit held last week in the capital city of Korea. Announced on the final day of the three-day Summit, the Declaration calls on major cities to convert into low-carbon areas by cutting greenhouse gas emissions to the largest extent possible.

May 3rd, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Dot Eco LLC is proud to support Roz Savage, the British ocean rower and environmental campaigner, in her upcoming effort to row solo across the Pacific. Roz's boat, the Brocade, will bear the "Dot Eco" logo on this historic voyage.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Bi-monthly Magazine Available in Digital Format and From Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons GreenerLiving, a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to helping people achieve a more sustainable lifestyle, re-launches later this week in print and digital format, with a distribution deal for print copies to be available free of charge from selected mainland branches of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons, as well as independent retailers around the country. Providing news, practical advice and tips, information and features to people with an interest in, or desire to find out about living a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, GreenerLiving also aims to motivate those so far feeling uninspired by the sustainability debate.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - April 1st 2009 is Energy Wasting Day - www.energywastingday.com Wannabe celeb Dan Power is releasing the World's first ever 'anti-eco' single -'Energy Wasting Day' (Wednesday 1st April 2009). In his debut music video, Dan Power (a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson fan) is seen cavorting with a group of girls pole dancing around patio heaters, riding a gas guzzling motorbike and advocating all kinds of ways to needlessly waste energy.

July 15th, 2009 EU teams up with MTV on climate changeBRUSSELS — The European Union is teaming up with music channel MTV to raise awareness among teens about the dangers of climate change. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas says today's youth "will bear the brunt" of climate change, including rising temperatures and sea-levels.

January 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Monday said Washington would take on a new leading role in confronting climate change and weaning the country off its dependence on foreign oil. Obama signalled a clean break in climate and energy policy from the administration of former president George W Bush, which was criticized for playing down the dangers of climate change.

September 23rd, 2009 Obama pleads for harder work on climate changeUNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama has implored world leaders to confront climate change, saying there can be no peace without cooperative work to preserve the planet. Appearing before global leaders gathered at the United Nations, Obama said Wednesday that "the danger posed by climate change cannot be denied — and our responsibility to meet it must not be deferred." The president said "this is why the days when America dragged its feet on this issue are over." He said he understood the tempation of nations to put economic recovery from recession ahead of climate change work, but said that must not be allowed to happen.

June 27th, 2009 Obama, Brown speak on climate change, economyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday spoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to discuss climate change and the global economic recovery. Obama spoke with his counterpart by telephone as part of their ongoing consultations.

September 8th, 2009 UK: Global deal on climate change may not happenLONDON — Britain's Foreign Secretary says there is danger a United Nations conference in December won't strike a global deal on climate change. David Miliband said Tuesday the complexity of negotiations and disputes between industrialized and developing nations leave prospects for a deal "in the balance." He said they threaten to sink a new global pact which would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the conference in Copenhagen.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen who is on a three day visit to India from Thursday, will make an effort to speed up negotiations on climate deal ahead of a key summit in Copenhagen in December. Rasmussen's will have discussion with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Former US President Bill Clinton has described Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as one of the world's smartest leaders. Clinton, who was introducing Rudd as a panellist, along with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, in the opening session of the four-day climate change conference to discuss key global issues, said: "In my opinion, he is one of the most well-informed, well-read, intelligent leaders in the world today." According to The Times,he also praised Rudd for his government's recognition of the need to take urgent action on climate change and for its advocacy of the Group of 20 major economies as a preferred vehicle than the smaller G-8 to deal with issues such as the global financial crisis and climate change.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There should be high level talks between Brazil, Russia, India and China on a global pact to combat climate change before the first BRIC summit in Russia next month, India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran said here Thursday. The talks should be at the level of either politicians or senior officials, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Saran told delegates from all BRIC countries at a summit preparatory meeting organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

April 25th, 2009 Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summitANCHORAGE, Alaska — To drill or not drill for new oil and gas. That was the issue that drove a wedge Friday between young people and many of the older delegates at the United Nations-affiliated Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama Tuesday promised a serious US effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change and called on all major polluters to make concessions to reach a new global climate treaty. In a speech at the start of a one-day climate summit at UN headquarters in New York, Obama acknowledged the US has been slow to respond to global warming in the past.