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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/bye_bye_toyako.html" title="&lt;h3&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greendaniel.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Daniel Mittler&lt;/a&gt; about to leave the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan &lt;h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;08072008%28002%29.jpg&quot; src=&quot;http://weblog.greenpeace.org/making..." target="_self">Bye, bye Toyako</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:23:54 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<h3> <a href=\"http://www.greendaniel.blogspot.com\">Daniel Mittler</a> about to leave the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan <h3> <p><img alt=\"08072008%28002%29.jpg\" src=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/08072008%28002%29.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /> There are a lot empty water bottles and even more coffee cups lying around the International Media Centre at the G8. The rooms are slowly emptying out and the faces of those remaining are drained and tired. As I am sure is mine. The last three days were wasted days for addressing the global crises we face. But at least we managed to counter the predictable, positive spin leaders put on the pathetic statements they put out here. For one (of gladly many) good media stories on the united NGO reaction against the G8 climate deal click <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUST54523._CH_.2400\">here</a>. Our Home, the Planet needs action. All it got here, was 8 leaders\' signatures who failed to do what is needed ... </p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/bushs_major_economies_meeting.html" title="&lt;p&gt;Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting is now over. And it was, surprise, surprise, a complete waste of time. You can find the statement &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mofa.go.jp/u_news/2/20080709_121006.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And here is our reacti..." target="_self">Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting comes to useless end</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:55:05 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting is now over. And it was, surprise, surprise, a complete waste of time. You can find the statement <a href=\"http://www.mofa.go.jp/u_news/2/20080709_121006.html\">here</a>. And here is our reaction: ?President <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/G8-MEM.pdf \">Bush?s Major Economies Meeting </a> has been a useless diversion from real action on climate change all along; the meaningless statement released today proves that for all to see. As low-lying island states are drowning, Bush?s MEM emits even more hot air. Because of the G8?s abject failure to commit to anything meaningful, there could be no move forward. On the issues that matter ? such as 2020 emission reduction targets for industrialised countries ? the statement is deathly silent.</p><p><a href=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/bushs_major_economies_meeting.html\" title=\"Continue Reading: Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting comes to useless end\">Continue reading Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting comes to useless end...</a></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/fast_and_efficient_security.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;08072008%28001%29.jpg&quot; src=&quot;http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/08072008%28001%29.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt; The weather has improved a bit since the constant rain on Monday. But ..." target="_self">Fast and efficient security!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:35:14 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p><img alt=\"08072008%28001%29.jpg\" src=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/08072008%28001%29.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /> The weather has improved a bit since the constant rain on Monday. But the sun didn\'t shine on the world\'s leaders here. And they didn\'t deserve that either. The G8 has failed. But they did give a lot of security guards work. Loads of security guards! For some - working for a security firm called Rising Sun - the work was even fun, I think. They got to move around on <a href=\"http://www.segway.com/\">Segways</a> (see picture). Frankly, those of us who had to run around on foot between the many far flung buildings the International Media Centre was made up of - we were quite jealous! The security guards also got a lot of media, who were impressed by the fast, clean and efficient vehicles. At least for the security...</p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/maldives_call_on_g8_dont_let_u.html" title="&lt;p&gt;It\'s the last day of the G8 - and hopefully the last day of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/G8-MEM.pdf&quot;&gt;Bush\'s Major Emitters/ Economies meetings&lt;/a&gt;. Today, countries representin..." target="_self">Maldives call on G8: Don\'t let us drown</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:14:43 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>It\'s the last day of the G8 - and hopefully the last day of <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/G8-MEM.pdf\">Bush\'s Major Emitters/ Economies meetings</a>. Today, countries representing 80 percent of global emissions will be holding talks. They will not make progress - because the G8 refused to move forward yesterday. The developing countries like South Africa, China and India are willing to move. But they expect the developed world, which is mainly responsible for climate change, to do their fair share - which they spectacularly failed to do yesterday. - The people who will not be here today, though, are those most affected by climate change. That is outrageous. That is immoral. It is one of the main reasons why <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/bush-lame-duck-mem-climate-plan170408\">Bush\'s Major Economies Meeting</a>, like Bush, needs to be history. - As the MEM gets underway, the Republic of Maldives therefore issued the following urgent plea. Powerful words, that remind us of what is at stake:</p><p><a href=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/maldives_call_on_g8_dont_let_u.html\" title=\"Continue Reading: Maldives call on G8: Don\'t let us drown\">Continue reading Maldives call on G8: Don\'t let us drown...</a></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/g8_climate_statement_this_is_a.html" title="&lt;p&gt;The G8 climate statement is out (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mofa.go.jp/u_news/2/20080708_143446.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). The leaders will spin this as a good step forward. Sadly, it is not. Here is our reaction: ?The G8 have failed the..." target="_self">G8 climate statement: if this is a step forward - we will never get there!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:29:50 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>The G8 climate statement is out (see <a href=\"http://www.mofa.go.jp/u_news/2/20080708_143446.html\">here</a>). The leaders will spin this as a good step forward. Sadly, it is not. Here is our reaction: ?The G8 have failed the world again. While the Arctic is melting, the G8 are postponing action. Instead of climate protection, the world got nothing but flowery words. If this is a step forward, we will never prevent climate chaos in time. The 2050 vision will be a nightmare, unless the world ends its fossil fuel addiction and starts an energy revolution based on renewable energies and energy efficiency ? now! But an oil man from Texas has again prevented the decisive action the world needs. Instead of creating solutions, the G8 are continuing to fuel the problem. The <a href=\"http://www.worldbank.org/cif\">World Bank Climate Investment Funds</a> that the G8 has<br /> announced do not exclude coal ? the world?s most polluting energy source. The World Bank Funds are a step in the wrong direction. The only good news from this summit is that it is Bush?s last.?</p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/solving_the_food_crisis.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;07072008.jpg&quot; src=&quot;http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/07072008.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt; If you look at the G8 agenda, most of it is about food. There is a working lunch, a work..." target="_self">Solving the food crisis?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:44:58 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p><img alt=\"07072008.jpg\" src=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/07072008.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /> If you look at the G8 agenda, most of it is about food. There is a working lunch, a working dinner, another working lunch. And then there is the photo call. And then - that\'s it. How appropriate, then, that they have been talking about the global food crisis while munching away at their Japanese specialities. Sadly, what they have been saying has not made much sense. Bush, Berlusconi and others have been pushing for <a href=\"http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/3-0&fp=4872b27c001fc10b&ei=mvJySM-bDZTC6AOShP3iBw&url=http%3A//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070201312.html&cid=1225822844&usg=AFQjCNHXqRzeNNWNiBt2E9Ud2_RlGNKVsQ\">genetically engineered food as the solution to the food</a> crisis. They have all pretended the liberalizing trade will lower food prices, which it will not. All it will do is drive poor farmers, especially in the developing world off their land. There has been <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7493789.stm\">some talk about how unsustainable biofuels are part of the problem </a>- but no decision to, say, stop clearing land for biofuels. To add insult to injury, there is a lot of really overpackaged food all over the media centre. Another way to solve the food crisis? One overpackaged water melon piece at a time? These summits do sure make your head spin! You keep calm, though, and find out here why <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/g8-and-food-crisis.pdf\">biodiversity and ecological farming</a> is the real solution to the food crisis!</p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/rain_in_a_ski_resort_a_sad_but.html" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update from Daniel at the G8:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Rainy day.&quot; src=&quot;http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/07072008%28001%29.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&..." target="_self">Rain in a ski resort - a sad but appropriate G8 start ...</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:29:23 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p><strong>Update from Daniel at the G8:</strong></p> <p><img alt=\"Rainy day.\" src=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/07072008%28001%29.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /> </p> <p>The <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/g8\">G8 leaders</a> have been hiding from the people they claim to represent in ever more remote places in recent years. But the <a href=\"http://www.g8summit.go.jp/eng/\">summit</a> here at Toyako, Hokkaido, takes the idea of \"hiding far, far away\" to perfection. Even the media centre is kilometres away from where Bush, Fukuda, Merkel and Co. are meeting. Toyako - and the area around it - is said to be beautiful. It is difficult to judge right now, I have to say, as it is raining cats and dogs. The mountains, said to be magical, are hardly even visible. The mist is not romantic, but really just low-lying rain clouds. As this is a ski area, that has received less and less snow fall in recent years, I guess the weather is fitting. This is what it will be like in Toyako - and other ski areas - even in winter. Unless <a href=\"http://www.greenpeace.org/g8\">our leaders act</a>. Will they? </p><p><a href=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2008/07/rain_in_a_ski_resort_a_sad_but.html\" title=\"Continue Reading: Rain in a ski resort - a sad but appropriate G8 start ...\">Continue reading Rain in a ski resort - a sad but appropriate G8 start ......</a></p>');
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document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>Please stand by. Our team will be posting updates here straight from the G8.</p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2007/09/athena_at_the_un.html" title="&lt;p&gt;An international Greenpeace contingent attended yesterday\'s high level UN meeting on climate change. Athena was there and felt compelled to put down her thoughts on the meeting. Here they are:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My name is Athena and I have been..." target="_self">Athena at the UN</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:11:03 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>An international Greenpeace contingent attended yesterday\'s high level UN meeting on climate change. Athena was there and felt compelled to put down her thoughts on the meeting. Here they are:</p> <p>My name is Athena and I have been called a climate ?policy wonk,? having followed the climate negotiating process for almost 15 years. Today though I write as a mother...</p> <p>While waiting for the opening of the UN High Level Summit on Climate Change here in New York, the cheerful faces of my three children Gab, Gio and Gavin keep flashing into my mind. </p> <p>They have been my inspiration, my driving force...ensuring their safe future and a healthy environment for them to grow into have been at the core of my work with the environmental movement and with Greenpeace in particular. And Dr. Pachauri (head of the UN?s scientific body) once again outlined why we all, especially those parents, need to stay involved on this issue. <br /> </p><p><a href=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2007/09/athena_at_the_un.html\" title=\"Continue Reading: Athena at the UN\">Continue reading Athena at the UN...</a></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2007/07/greenwashing_bluewashing_and_m.html" title="&lt;p&gt;Another update from straight talking policy adviser Daniel:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last week was not a good one to be a tourist in Geneva. It was raining cats and dogs and as a private individual you could not get a tour of the United Nations headqua..." target="_self">Greenwashing, Bluewashing and much rain in Geneva</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:43:09 +0100</span><br />');
document.write('<p>Another update from straight talking policy adviser Daniel:</p> <p>Last week was not a good one to be a tourist in Geneva. It was raining cats and dogs and as a private individual you could not get a tour of the United Nations headquarters. This beautiful building was open only for business leaders as the <a href=\"http://www.globalcompactsummit.org/\">Second Global Compact Leaders Summit</a> was bringing the UN Secretary General and several hundred CEOs to town. So much for openness and transparency. </p> <p><a href=\"http://www.unglobalcompact.org\">The Global Compact</a> sounds like a good idea. Its principles are worthy. They are about human rights and environmental protection and fighting corruption. The trouble is: The Compact does not enforce these principles at all. Global Compact Principle 7, for example, calls for a \"precautionary approach to environmental challenges\". That sounds good. Greenpeace likes precaution - which basically means that if you are not certain if something is safe or not, well, you don?t do it. Yet companies that ignore precaution by producing genetically modified organisms, such as Novartis, are members of the Compact. Areva, which produces dangerous nuclear power are allowed to be members of the Pact. <a href=\"http://www.un.org\">The UN</a> is endangering a very high value good, it\'s reputation, by associating its name with such activities through the Global Compact. It\'s called \"bluewash\" - looking good by associating yourself with the UN.<br /> </p><p><a href=\"http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2007/07/greenwashing_bluewashing_and_m.html\" title=\"Continue Reading: Greenwashing, Bluewashing and much rain in Geneva\">Continue reading Greenwashing, Bluewashing and much rain in Geneva...</a></p>');
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