Last negotiations before Copenhagen are taking place in Barcelona

The December’s United Nations’ meeting on Climate Change in Copenhagen is a meeting that has been prepared in the last few years.

Before the important meeting in Copenhagen, United Nations are taking a last meeting in Barcelona so that the delegates can concrete some technical aspects for Copenhagen’s summit. They are meeting this week, from 2nd to 6th November.

It’s not expected that anything new is decided in Barcelona but it is an important event as the next meeting will be in Copenhagen. The last chance for the planet according to lots of people. And, of course, lots of spanish and international organizations are going to act during these days to ask our leaders to reach an agreement. We will continue informing.

Copenhagen is coming

I’m virtually sure that everyone in the world has listened the word “Copenhagen” in the last weeks, but perhaps you didn’t realise. There is a reason why everyone has done. Copenhagen will be the venue of one of the most important meetings in our history.

Sure you know a lot about the Kyoto protocol. But now, our planet needs  a new climate agreement to stop climate change happening before it is too late. Climate Change is not something that will happen in the future: it is happening right now, and scientists do know.

After years of negotiations, next December our leaders will meet in Copenhagen in a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change‘s meeting. From 7th December all our leaders will discuss and they must make a deal.

Climate change is putting life on earth in peril. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But the clock is ticking. In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide our destiny.

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The real importance of the meeting

We know that our leaders are used to attending meetings but not agreeing, or even making promises that they don’t want to or they cannot fulfill. But this time it is different. Our planet could be over by 2050 according to scientific evidence. And “the world is ready” for a climate agreement.

What’s happening out there

Something is happening. Well, but what am I talking about?

I’m talking about society’s change. I’m talking about the global awareness of global problems. I’m talking about the incredible efforts that people are doing out there to stop our world’s problems.

A few years ago it was unbelievable  to imagine people in 181 countries coming together “for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history”.  And it did happen last Saturday.

Next December our leaders are going to meet in Copenhagen. The Kyoto Protocol is about to expire and they must come to a new and ambitious climate agreement.

The international movilization is incredible. More than 200 organizations are acting together to press our leaders to come to such agreement. And people are following these people.

Times Square, New York, United States.
Last Saturday, one of the more than 5.000 events around the world.

Information and Communication Technologies, the Internet in head, allow 6.000.000.000 people to be connected and act together. Or they are supposed to, if everyone had access to these systems.

But Climate Change is not everything. Human Rights and Poverty are also on everyone’s lips. Two weeks ago we celebrated the International Day for the  Eradication of Poverty. People are becoming really awared of the global problems, and something is moving. We are not a movement. We are not a philosophy or a religion. We aren’t even a lifestyle. Perhaps we are another thing or we are all that, but the fact is that something is happening.

So, what is this blog about?

Recently I realised that global problems need global solutions and we’re moving to a global only message. You may see a demonstration in your city asking to stop CO2 emissions. You may hear something against Poverty. But these individual actions are part of a global project. And this blog is about that. It’s aim is to talk about these global projects, and show you that there’s a global overview for lots of the things that are happening in your street.

You’re invited to come with me for the next months or years and discover what is happening.

Of course, everyone is invited to take part in the staff of the blog: this is an open blog.

A final note: you may have realised that English is not my mother language. I use English because it is the international language and I would like this blog to be read from different countries. Not by many people but from many places. Therefore, I beg your pardon for my language mistakes (I only promiss the information to be truthfully correct).