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WDM launches UN Poznań climate change conference blog
01 December 2008
Tim Jones, policy officer for the World Development Movement is travelling to Poland to attend the UN climate conference talks.
Governments from around the world are gathering in Poznań, Poland, as part of negotiations on an international agreement for tackling climate change.
They meet at a time when the world is in financial turmoil and old assumptions about how the world should work are being challenged. And they meet as climate change continues to impact communities around the world, from the Philippines to Peru, Australia to the Arctic, the Maldives to Malawi.
Just one year is left until an agreement needs to be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. For hundreds of millions of the poorest people around the world, this is their last chance.
Tim, who last year took part in the Christian Aid Climate Change March across the UK will be recording his thoughts on a new blog at http://poznanclimate.blogspot.com/ we will also be posting photographs and hopefully video as well.
In addition, we have a Twitter ‘widget’ which collects together all the latest updates from Tim and the other NGO delegates attending the conference. Twitter is a simple way to send short updates from mobile phones to the web, and recently hit the headlines as a citizen journalism tool – it has been used to report from events as diverse as the US presidential election to the recent troubles in Mumbai.
See Tim’s blog at: http://poznanclimate.blogspot.com/
Kate Blagojevic
Press officer, World Development Movement
0207 820 4900/4913, 07711 875 345, Email:
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