Sex workers in Denmark are protesting a campaign against prostitution during the UN Climate Change Conference. The city of Copenhagen wants to discourage delegates from buying sex, despite the fact thatit is perfectly legal there and has nothing to do with climate change. Thesex workers’ interest group, SIO (Sexarbejdernes Interesseorganisation), was not consulted and so, annoyed, they are offering free sex to any conference delegate who turns in his ridiculous postcard (see below), which also went to 160 hotels. See full text on “Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex”
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating table at Copenhagen and in other capitals. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap &’ Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
Member States have reached a preliminary agreement on the modalities for the MDG Review Conference in September 2010. The resolution decides that the meeting will be held from 20 to 22 September 2010 in New York. It also asks that Hearings with civil society be organized no later than June 2010. Formal approval of the resolution should be expected in the coming couple of weeks. (more…)
Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states, colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:(more…)
