Friday, November 27, 2009

Lulama-ZONAS a la recherche du temps perdu

drawing by marguerita

This may have been the best month for Brazil since about June 1494.
That's when the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed granting Portugal everything in the new world east of an imaginary line that was declared to exist 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands. This ensured that what was to become Brazil would be Portuguese and thus develop a culture and identity very different from the rest of Spanish Latin America.

http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/07/the_world_s_best_foreign_minister

Segundo a colunista da Folha Eliane Cantanhêde, Lula quer liderar os países amazônicos na conferência do clima (COP-15), em Copenhague. "Lula caminha assim para abrir mais e mais espaço para o Brasil, como um player internacional", comenta.

A moins de dix jours du Sommet de Copenhague, j’ai eu envie de voir ce qui se faisait et se disait sur la Toile, à l’exception des sites d’information. Pour commencer cette petite revue de web française, un tour par Facebook s’imposait. Une trentaine de groupes ont été créés sur le sujet. Un seul sort du lot : L’Ultimatum climatique, mis en place par les onze ONG à l’origine dudit appel, qui affiche plus de 20 000 membres. Les autres groupes, eux, sont loin de déplacer les foules, avec des noms peu engageants et très proches les uns des autres, voire quasiment identiques :Destination Copenhague, Copenhague 2009, En route pour Copenhague ou Sommet de Copenhague. A une époque où les noms de groupes qui cartonnent sont ceux décalés ou humoristiques, on peut comprendre que le réchauffement climatique ne rencontre pas un franc succès.

Peu d’innovations et de nouveautés sur ces pages : les internautes se donnent rendez-vous pour des événements ou des flahshmobs, invitent les autres à signer la pétition ou encore déplorent certains gestes anti-écolos pratiqués par leurs connaissances.http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/11/27/le-sommet-de-copenhague-inspire-guere-les-internautes/

“Warming of the oceans and increased uptake of CO2 is of increasing concern for the marine environment. The loss of biodiversity due to upper ocean warming, ocean acidification and ocean de-oxygenation will add dramatically to the existing threads of overfishing and marine pollution".

Professor Martin Visbeck, Professor of Physical Oceanography and Deputy Director of IFM-GEOMAR.

"The climate system does not provide us with a silver bullet. There is no escape but to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible."

Professor Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics, ETH Zürich.

"Climate change is coming out even clearer and more rapidly in the recent data. The human contribution is not in doubt."

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences, UK

"Climate change is accelerating towards the tipping points for polar ice sheets. That’s why we’re now projecting future sea level rise in metres rather than centimeters." Professor Tim Lenton, University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences, UK

"Reducing tropical deforestation could prevent up to a fifth of human CO2 emissions, slowing climate change and helping to maintain some of the planet’s most important hotspots of biodiversity."http://www.temoignages.re/copenhagen-diagnosis-statements-by,40246.html





http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/16/copenhagen-treaty-denmark-minister

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