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COP15 Climate Summit 2009

Reports, protests and announcements about the COP15 Climate Summit 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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COP15 Fails -- Capitalism is Ecocide

20-12-2009 21:59

As the politicians and protesters disperse from Copenhagen , the COP15 climate talks were judged to have ended in a failure to produce any binding commitment to tackle climate change. On Saturday 12th, an estimated 100 000 joined a demo, to be met with repressive policing and mass arrests. The same style of policing continued for the duration of the summit, with hundreds of protestors detained for hours in degrading and inhumane conditions. Whilst the police demonstrated the limits of freedom and democracy on the streets, inside the convention centre western powers and corporations dominated the proceedings, imposing unfair conditions and watering down the already inadequate proposals that were on the table.

In London, the Climate Camp which was set up after the 'wave' demo on December 5th, remained in situ in Trafalgar Square throughout the summit, mounting a number of actions, including an action against Tar Sands at Canada House on Monday 14th, and a protest against the Danish police on Thursday 17th.

Links:
Time Line | Climate IMC | IMC Denmark | iCOP15 aggregated site.

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Once You COP You Just Can't Stop

10-12-2009 22:09

Going to COP15? Wondering which pair of socks to bring? A space-hopper and a peace flag or a gas-mask and a bag of transit wheel nuts? Ask no longer as SchNEWS brings you our prepare-for-action guide to the week long climate protest in Denmark, a country which professes itself to be a 'key developer of climate solutions'. Let's hope they're right. Read on for yer essential what's-what: border checks, police tactics, and probably most importantly, what will the weather be like?

See www.schnews.org.uk or click 'full article'

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50,000 in Climate Change Protest + Climate Camp Occupies Trafalgar Square

04-12-2009 09:46

View of part of de demo marching down Whitehall

Around 50,000 people took part in 'The Wave' demonstration in London on Saturday 5th December [ photos: 1 | 2 | 3 ] ahead of the Cop15 Climate conference - see Indymedia London Feature reports.

Following the Wave events and demonstration the London Climate Camp invited people to the COP Out Camp Out action - which took over Trafalgar Square, setting up a camp for an intended 48hrs to highlight the issues around the Cop15 mobilisation, summed up in the phrase "System Change not Climate Change. See Climate Camp Feature reports.

For coverage see Indymedia London Timeline
See also Liveblog archive | Twitter Tag search | Twitters: climatecampldn | copoutcampout

Help report what's happening by sending your reports from the streets.

See: The Wave Demonstration | Bike Ride | Climate Emergency | Climate Camp Action
Also see: Indymedia London | Imc uk Cop15 Section
For Cop 15 coverage see: Indymedia Denmark | Climate IMC

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Cop15 Climate Conference: System Change, Not Climate Change

23-11-2009 16:55

The UN Cop15 Climate Conference is due to take place in Copenhagen from 7th-18th December. Billed as the last chance to save our future, is it any wonder that people are getting angry? Recently the 350.org campaign clearly represented people's desire to dramatically reduce emissions across the world, yet we've seen such mass displays of political expression before, such as the global anti-war demonstrations in 2003 which seemed to have little impact upon Governments. But it's not just about emissions. Those in the global south who have contributed least to the problem are now facing the effects. Increasingly climate campaigners are saying that we cannot trust the market with our future and that we must not rely upon 'false solutions'.

As the world watches Copenhagen, thousands of people will participate in protest marches, direct action and alternative forums. In Denmark new repressive laws have been proposed [update: now passed] to discourage protests including extending preventitative detention from 6hrs to 12hrs, significantly increasing fines for public order offences under Danish law, and increasing the penalty for not dispersing when ordered to do so by police [see 1 | 2]. Meanwhile in a clear display of political policing, four uk activists on their way to an organising meeting in Copenhagen were detained and questioned under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 [2 | 3].

Despite this hundreds of people from the uk will head to Copenhagen to participate in the protests, actions and the Klimaforum. The uk Climate Camp is organising coach transport and has joined the Climate Justice Action network which is co-ordinating some of the protests, in particular the Reclaim Power! action on 16th December, which aims to push into the conference area and hold a "People’s Summit for Climate Justice". They are supported by a wide range of groups, including members of Climate Justice Now, a network formed in Bali during Cop13 and including many groups and networks from the global south, such as Via Campesina. Other planned actions focus on food sovereignty, migration, corporations and 'business as usual'.

In the countdown toward Cop15, there has been an upswing in direct action around climate change. On September 12th hundreds of people protested and took direct action at Hazelwood coal power station  in Victoria, Australia [utube video]. On 26th September, hundreds of protestors in Denmark took direct action, breaching the fences at Amagerværket coal-fired power station (owned by Vattenfall) in an action called "Shut It Down" [reports 1  | 2 | video]. In the uk on 17th October around one thousand people protested at Eon's Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station, repeatedly breaching fences [pics]. On 26th October, activists in the uk occupied parts of Npower’s Didcot power station, blockaded an access road at Mainshill Wood where Scottish Coal plans a new coal mine, and climbed onto machinery at Shipley opencast coal mine stopping work [collected reports]. On October 28th activists from the action group Climate Alarm! blockaded the entrance to the Business Europe Copenhagen conference in Brussels [video 1 | 2 | 3 | pics]. At the start of November in Barcelona at the last preparatory session before Copenhagen, protestors marched, blocked roads and blockaded entrances to the meeting, whilst inside delegates from the African bloc staged a walk-out of the discussions [reports 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ]. Whilst on 23rd November in Australia around two hundred protestors blockaded Parliament House in Canberra.

Ahead of Cop15, demonstrations are scheduled in Geneva alongside the WTO, and on November 30th the Mobilization for Climate Justice has called for a global day of action coinciding with the 10 year anniversary of the famous Seattle WTO protests. Linking the WTO to the Cop15 mobilisation is the Social & Climate Justice Caravan, with 60 representatives from global movements from the South travelling two routes from Geneva to Copenhagen, arriving 9th December. In London, a large pre-Cop15 protest march called "The Wave" is planned by a coalition of NGOs on December 5th, meeting at the US Embassy before marching off at 1pm to encircle Parliament. Earlier there is a Climate Bike Ride meeting at 10am at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and a Climate Emergency Rally at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park at midday. Update: An action has also been announced by Climate Camp in London: COP OUT Camp Out, to take place after the Wave demonstration.

Listings of Events + Protests: 1|2|3
Latest Logistics (accomodation etc) | Legal Advice / pdf | Medics and Trauma Support | Google Map
Climate Camp UK Coaches (11th-19th Dec) - (Booking deadline 25th Nov) | Other Coaches from European Countries

See coverage at: Indymedia DK | Climate IMC | Imcuk Cop15 Section
Recent: Bolivian COP-15 Delegate's Call Video | 300-350 Show: Civil disobedience for climate justice + legal issues
See also:Why Climate Change is Not an Environmental Issue (pdf) | Deal or No Deal Newspaper (pdf) | 350 Reasons Why Carbon Trading Won't Work (pdf)  |  Carbon Supermarket Comic by Kate Evans   |  More Background

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Climate Camp Roundup: Scotland, Wales, Ireland +

24-08-2009 13:02

The summer of 2009 is seeing an upsurge in campaigning on climate change, with Climate Camp protests taking place throughout Europe and the world [see list] ahead of the COP15 UN Climate talks in Copenhagen in December this year. Climate Camps have recently taken place in Scotland, Wales and Ireland with hundreds of people occupying land, learning about climate change, exchanging skills and taking direct action, as well as supporting local residents already engaged in resisting fossil fuel schemes that damage their health and the environment. Camps have also taken place in France [see imc.nantes] and near Antwerp by the Belgian/Dutch border  [see imc.nl|imc.be]. Next up is the UK Camp for Climate Action in London on 26th August, ahead of an autumn of mass action [2] before COP15 [1|2]. Climate Radio Climate Camp 2009 Special. For more details see the Full Article.

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The COP15 Climate Summit 2009 - Global Climate Action Comming Up ...

05-12-2008 21:12

KlimaX rocks the COP15 planned summit site

The UN Climate Conference of Parties number 15 is set to take place in Copenhagen on the 30th of November 2009, and it will be the biggest climate summit ever to have taken place. More than 12.000 delegates business leaders, politicians, diplomats and lobbyists are going to be discussing an international treaty to replace the failed Kyoto Protocol. Set to end in 2012 this treaty was supposed to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions by 6%. However according to UN itself the global carbon emmisions have so far risen by 4% instead. There is no indication that the COP15 summit will come up with anything real to fight climate change.

However tens of thousands activists and protesters will be making their way to Copenhagen for this major event. In September 2008 people from more than 23 countries met in Copenhagen and agreed on a Call to Action, calling for people to start mobilizing and to carry out actions locally as well as coming to Copenhagen for mass actions. Planning for this event has already begun.

Another international planning meeting will take place in March 2009 where the concepts and strategy for action will be discussed. A Climate Camp will take place on the 11-19th of July. Additionally a mass action will attempt to shut down a Danish power plant in the months before the Summit takes place. The world leaders may converge upon Copenhagen but they won't leave without having heard the demands of the people who will be hurt by climate change

Mobilization website and how to get involved: Climateaction09.org
Related Indymedia sites: Copenhagen News Service | Climate Indymedia
Related story: Action at the planned COP15 conference center

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Image Just Do It Comes to Vivid Birmingham
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Text Our Planet is Not your Experiment
07-11-2010 18:20

Image ANOTHER Oil rig explodes in the Gulf of mexico!
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Video Danish Court: Climate activists are innocent
02-09-2010 15:46 | 1 comment

Audio Bonn CJA meeting / Klimacamp / Climate Wave and associated actions
22-06-2010 11:36

Audio Climate Justice Action speech at Bonn climate talks demo
22-06-2010 11:06

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Audio Listen to an interview from Cochabamba...
18-04-2010 19:02

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10-04-2010 17:41

Text Issue 8 of The Land out now!
14-03-2010 16:24 | 1 comment

Text 3 years after the Ungdomshuset Riots
03-03-2010 11:59

Text Interview with Erik Swyngedouw: The post-politics of climate change
15-02-2010 22:01

Text Indymedia Radio at COP15 - 16 December 2009 Reclaim Power live broadcast
08-02-2010 17:51

Text Lost in Translation
08-02-2010 13:50 | 1 comment

Text The political success of the COP15 mobilisations is still to come…
02-02-2010 19:09

Text Earth First! Winter Moot location announced, 6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010
01-02-2010 11:59 | 3 comments

Image Nottingham climate action meeting
27-01-2010 18:26 | 2 comments

Text Anti-nuclear activists disrupt Parliamentary Select Committee
27-01-2010 14:56 | 1 comment

Image Reel News Newcastle
25-01-2010 23:15 | 3 comments

Text Theory into Practice? Shift Magazine no. 8
22-01-2010 16:05

Text Neo-con Senator Lisa Murkowski wants to pollute and kill the planet
20-01-2010 14:17

Text Interview with Tadzio Muller- Climate Justice Action
18-01-2010 15:08

Image Haiti: Cuban Medical Brigade
17-01-2010 19:54

Text Only the extinction of capitalism will ensure the survival of our species
15-01-2010 22:50 | 2 comments

Image Green Solutions, Not Nuclear Greenwash! - Demo at London Nuclear Conf, 26 Jan
14-01-2010 20:59 | 3 comments

Image The Dead End of Climate Justice
13-01-2010 22:22 | 2 comments

Text The Great Nuclear Power Debate - Mon 11 Jan, 7.30pm, London
08-01-2010 13:41 | 3 comments

Text dichotomies of violence vs non violence at Copenhagen
08-01-2010 12:39 | 7 comments

Text Reflections on Cop 15-
07-01-2010 17:11 | 2 comments

Image Movement #3 - No Borders newsletter
07-01-2010 16:42 | 1 comment

Text Sleeping with the Enemy: TCKTCKTCK in bed with EDF, world’s leading nuclear corp
07-01-2010 10:04 | 3 comments

Image Climate Protestors in Court Following Defacing of Canadian Flag
05-01-2010 17:26 | 5 comments

Text Beyond Bloctivism: Critical Response to the Greenpolice
05-01-2010 01:48 | 5 comments

Image Statement From COP15 Prisoners- and how to support them
02-01-2010 13:20 | 1 comment

Text Reclaiming Power in Copenhagen.
29-12-2009 23:54 | 21 comments

Text GreenPeace/GreenPolice: A communique from the COP15 Black Bloc
28-12-2009 17:10 | 17 comments

Text Are we serious? the shambles in Copenhagen
23-12-2009 23:25 | 19 comments

Text A recognition for climate refugees?
20-12-2009 19:46 | 2 comments

Text Issue 704 - Not a Hopenhagen
20-12-2009 19:09

Text Release Tadzio Mueller and the other climate prisoners!
19-12-2009 11:01 | 1 addition

Text Rotten Borough of Rushmoor rejects 10:10 greenhouse gas reduction
18-12-2009 15:33

Text Fascistic Danish Police Force Threatens to Shoot Activists!
18-12-2009 13:01 | 7 comments

Image Banner Action in Central Copenhagen
18-12-2009 08:11 | 1 comment

Image Climate Camp Trafalgar- Ice Bear action
18-12-2009 01:42 | 1 addition | 11 comments

Image Thur Dec 17 protest outside Danish Embassy, London
17-12-2009 23:44

Image Tar Sands Protest, London, Monday 14 December 2009
17-12-2009 23:31

Text Delivery of Petition at Danish Embassy 10.30am Friday Dec 18th
17-12-2009 21:31 | 1 comment

Image Reclaim Power-Green Block
17-12-2009 19:39 | 1 comment

Text FITwatch Copenhagen - mass arrests, cages and deportations.
17-12-2009 16:16 | 3 comments

Text Climate Camp Copenhagen ‘Leaving Party!’
17-12-2009 12:17 | 1 comment

Text Sign the Open Letter: Release Tadzio Mueller and the other climate prisoners!
16-12-2009 20:43

Image Multiple Climate Protests Hit Cambridge - Darwin Speaks!
16-12-2009 17:14

Image Climate Protester Clash With Police Outside Bella Centre
16-12-2009 15:17 | 7 comments

Text peoples assembly - LIVE AUDIO
16-12-2009 11:17 | 1 comment

Text EXXON FOX NEWS runs aground - Denialist-gate.
16-12-2009 06:48

Text Airport Protests In France against returning refugees to Kabul war zone
15-12-2009 17:09 | 1 comment

Image Climate Activists Invade Meeting of Senior Politicians in Copenhagen
15-12-2009 16:46 | 4 comments

Text Mass arrests in Copenhagen
15-12-2009 13:42 | 1 comment

Image Activist Robbers hold up International Chamber of Commerce
15-12-2009 11:48 | 1 comment

Text Climate protestors scale Canadian embassy and deface flag
15-12-2009 11:06 | 1 comment

Text Report from Cop-enhagen
15-12-2009 09:37 | 1 comment

Video video Christiania riot!
15-12-2009 02:25 | 2 comments

Text COP15 prisoners riot in makeshift jail
14-12-2009 23:55 | 6 comments

Text Call Out For International Solidarity In Support Of Climate Justice
14-12-2009 22:26 | 2 comments

Image Pepper Spray Used on Activists in Copenhagen Whilst Detained!
14-12-2009 20:36 | 2 comments

Image Climate Activists Tell Canada: Don’t Cop Out On COP 15!
14-12-2009 18:08

Text Never trust a cop Demo
14-12-2009 13:08 | 2 comments

Text Telephone solidarity with detained activists in Copenhagen
14-12-2009 13:05 | 1 comment

Image Yorkshire and Humber Plans to Worsen Climate Change.
14-12-2009 09:58

Text Carbon Traders Speak Out On The Streets
14-12-2009 02:08 | 1 comment

Image COP15 - more mass arrests
13-12-2009 20:22

Text The green US president?
13-12-2009 12:25

Text The Copenhagen Connection: Sheffield Live!
13-12-2009 12:16 | 1 addition

Image Arrests Copenhagen
12-12-2009 22:25 | 8 comments

Image Copenhagen Police Accused of Violating Human Rights at UN Summit
12-12-2009 22:04 | 5 comments

Image Mass Arrest On Climate Demo in Copenhagen
12-12-2009 20:06 | 5 comments

Text COP15 EASIER access to Denmark and COPENHAGEN
12-12-2009 11:05

Text Lighting up Cornmarket in Protest
11-12-2009 20:43 | 9 comments

Text If you need help… in Copenhagen!
11-12-2009 17:00

Text Target David Attenborough
11-12-2009 14:31 | 17 comments

Text Pacific Rescue Plan.
11-12-2009 14:09

Text Exxon Man Spotted at Copenhagen
11-12-2009 10:10

Text Autonomous Pixie Action in Solidarity with Mainshill
11-12-2009 02:14 | 2 comments

Text Tar Sands Action
10-12-2009 23:57 | 2 comments

Text Petrol station burnt down in Copenhagen protest
10-12-2009 22:00 | 7 comments

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10-12-2009 15:17

Text The Amazon Dilemma
09-12-2009 20:25

Image Ed Miliband meets his followers on the way to 'Hopenhagen'
09-12-2009 18:03

Text Indymedia Space in Copenhagen set up
09-12-2009 17:23

Text Camden Bio Hazard Lab consortium [UKCMRI] : 24 hrs notice of "consultation"
09-12-2009 14:36

Text Copenhagen Farewell Lunch
09-12-2009 13:37

Text COP OUT CAMP OUT is staying put in Trafalgar Square
08-12-2009 15:27 | 8 comments

Image COP15 FIGHT for the climate
08-12-2009 10:56

Text Climate Camp to stay in Trafalgar Square for duration of COP15
07-12-2009 20:23 | 15 comments

Text Videos from climate emergency rally, London, 5th December 2009
07-12-2009 17:07

Text Climate Camp in Trafalgar Sq. Guided Tour of Climate Criminals 2pm
06-12-2009 13:37 | 2 comments

Image Pics: The Climate Wave demo & Cop Out Camp out action, Sat 5th Dec
05-12-2009 22:01 | 8 comments

Text Calais today: repression has escalated to unprecedented levels
05-12-2009 19:26

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05-12-2009 18:45 | 1 addition | 7 comments

Text Climate Camp sets up at Trafalgar Square
05-12-2009 18:35 | 3 comments

Text COP15: Be part of the party!
05-12-2009 17:22

Image Campaiging cyclists on the road from Cambrige to London
05-12-2009 06:52

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04-12-2009 23:32

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04-12-2009 16:07

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03-12-2009 19:54 | 1 comment

Text Cop15: Notes from below
03-12-2009 12:49

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02-12-2009 16:35

Text Anti-capitalism: alive and well
01-12-2009 18:21 | 3 comments

Text Anti-capitalist Block at The Wave
01-12-2009 18:20 | 3 comments

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01-12-2009 01:22 | 4 comments

Text Sheffield Residents to Hold Vigil for Climate Justice
30-11-2009 22:34

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Text Anti Capitalist Block @ the Wave
29-11-2009 16:30 | 12 comments

Image Thousands protest WTO in Geneva - Property Damage and Tear Gas
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