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Important Tips to Hire Reputed Packers and Movers Companies

What kind of services does the packers and movers provides? Packers and Movers offers a wide range of relocation services at the most economical rate. They are helping people with their dedicated services at their door to door. Their services are very economical as everyone can afford at their budget. They deal with household shifting, office relocation, industrial shifting, car carrier and transportation services, freight forwarding and logisti… Continue

Added by Aden Kelvin on February 10, 2010 at 7:26am — No Comments

group travel

If we are taking a trip to Denmark, should we consider taking out Travel Medical Insurance on each group member. Some have their own Health Insurance, but International Health Insurance may cover differently. What do you guys know about U.S. citizens being tre… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on February 2, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

Jewish dwarfs survived Mengele and Holocaust through symbiotic relationship

By Michael de Laine, the Copenhagen Voice, 27 January 2010 Symbiosis was the key to how a Jewish family with many dwarfs survived the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz and the notorious Dr Josef Mengele. Jews, dwarfs, gypsies and homosexuals were among those annihilated in the Holocaust, but the Ovitz family stuck together, humoured Mengele and were subjected to his experiments – the doctor dependent on the family as objects of scientific interest, the family dependent on his interest in the… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on January 29, 2010 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Human rights deteriorate in Bangladesh

By Jahangir Alam Akash, Human rights in Bangladesh were anything but healthy in 2009 under the ruling Awami League led alliance. According to a report on Thursday by the oldest Bengali newspaper of Bangladesh, the Daily Sangbad, around 4,000 people were murdered, which averages to about 11 deaths each day. There were 10 politically motivated murders and 12,074 torture cases related to women. Tender grabbing was a common feature of the ruling party cadres. There has been an alarming rise in huma… Continue

Added by Jahangir Alam Akash on January 12, 2010 at 1:12am — No Comments

#cop15 Greenpeace Activists Release Press Conf. 7-10-10

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Copenhagen, Denmark - 6 January 2010 - Danish police today released from custody four Greenpeace climate protesters who have endured 20 days of pre-trial detention in Copenhagen pr… Continue

Added by Davidaron on January 7, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Happy New Year from CPHVOICE

Please enjoy the music sound of the collective future - wishing all of you a great year - in Peace, respect, love, joy and creative purpose. Music composed by Per Van Per - website link below: http://www.pervanper.com/per_Van_per/PerVanPer.html Continue

Added by foxylens on January 5, 2010 at 9:28am — No Comments

Goodbye to a decade

It has been our way. We like to measure, to weigh and count in order to make sense of it. We also gave names to the animals from the beginning. So we not only try to make sense of it but also seek to control it, whatever “it” may be. Following that tradition of ours, we will be calling yesterday the closing day of the first decade of this Millennium. I like many others am tempted to gather the lasting images of this decade that was. Undoubtedly there are a cascade of pictures, sounds, sights an… Continue

Added by Aziz on January 1, 2010 at 3:18pm — No Comments

#COP15 Global citizens' consultation wants COP15 deal to keep temperature rise below 2 degrees C

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 9 December 2009 Some 4,000 people in 38 countries in a global consultation carried out in September said they wanted the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen to reach a deal that would keep the temperature rise to below 2 degrees C compared with pre-industrial temperatures. Industrialised countries should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25% to 40% or more by 2020, fast-growing economies should also cut their emissions by 2020, and low-income develo… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 10:56pm — No Comments

#COP15 Schellnhuber, other scientists on mitigating climate change

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 8 December 2009 Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the chief climate adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel,and the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, was one of several speakers at a climate change seminar held yesterday by the University of Copenhagen. See the Copenhagen Voice interviews with Schellnhuber, Adrian Macey, New Zealand's climate change ambassador, Ole John Nielsen of the Copenhagen Centre for Atmospheric Research… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 8:14pm — No Comments

#COP15 Green operations help reduce costs, say Copenhagen businesses

From the Copenhagen Business Center, 15 December 2009 Almost half of the businesses in Copenhagen are convinced that operating in a climate-friendly way will pay off in the long run, a survey shows. According to a recent study from the Copenhagen Business Center, businesses in Copenhagen believe in being climate-frendly. Almost half of them are convinced that operating in a climate-friendly way will pay off in the long run. “Copenhagen should be very pleased with this development,” say… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 8:07pm — No Comments

#COP15 Mayors sign communique to show they mean business in mitigating climate change

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 15 December 2009 More than 80 mayors from cities all over the world have signed a communique to show they mean business in mitigating climate change and at the same time call to leaders to reach agreement at the climate conference, COP15, in Copenhagen. Dozens of mayors from cities all over the world have signed a communique to show they mean business in mitigating climate change. At the Climate Summit for Mayors today, they also called to lead… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 5:11pm — No Comments

#COP15 Copenhagen failure 'disappointing', 'shameful'

From EUObserver.com, 21 December 2009 The Copenhagen summit, billed as a historic meeting about nothing less than saving the planet for human habitation, ended this weekend with a low-key accord that was rejected by poor nations, described as "disappointing" by EU leaders and condemned by NGOs as a "shameful, monumental failure". After two years of preparations and ever grimmer scientific assessments of the state the planet is in, from its melting ice-caps to acidifying oceans, in the small ho… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 10:51am — 1 Comment

#COP15 Future US leadership strategies after Copenhagen climate summit

By Michael de Laine, 20 December 2009 A closing panel debate at the Peoples' Climate Summit in Copenhagen on Friday discussed the coming leadership strategies of the US after the UNFCCC COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. Here are excerpts from the debate.

Bill McKibben (350.org)… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 8:18am — No Comments

#COP15 Conferences issue declarations

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 19 December 2009 Both the UN Climate Change Conference and the Peoples' Climate Summit have issued declarations following their deliberations over the past two weeks. The UNFCCC COP15 declaration - the Copenhagen Accord - can be read here. A list of the organisations that have signed the People’s Declaration from Klimaforum09 can be found… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 7:35am — No Comments

#COP15 Copenhagen failed to set needed emissions targets, urgent deadline to sign real climate treaty - Avaaz.org

From Avaaz.org, 21 December 2009 It's been a tough ending to an amazing week. In all-night negotiations, leaders have reached a weak agreement in Copenhagen that fails to set the emissions targets needed to prevent catastrophic global warming. The agreement was stronger on funding, but it was not binding, and set no urgent deadline to sign a real climate treaty. Big polluters like China and the US wanted a weak deal, and potential champions like Europe, Brazil and South Africa didn't fight har… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 7:27am — No Comments

#COP15 Are trees, carbon offsets and cap-and-trade systems the future?

By Michael de Laine, The Copenhagen Voice, 19 December 2009 Bernd Heinrich, emeritus professor at the University of Vermont, argues in the New York Times today that while there was no lack of good intentions, the UNFCCC COP15 climate-change summit in Copenhagen did not achieve what was hoped for, with conflicts rather than solutions being generated. The product was a weak agreement to disagree in the future, he says. "Forests were part of the discussion, and several things were understood: ca… Continue

Added by Michael de Laine on December 21, 2009 at 7:16am — No Comments

My experience on International Human Rights Day

By Jahangir Alam Akash, For the first time, I was not in Bangladesh on International Human Rights Day. On December 10th, the whole world observes this day for human rights, even though most countries in the world do not have a good human rights situation. Last year on this day, I was in Gopalgonj and Barishal, in Bangladesh, with Hindu minorities. At that ti… Continue

Added by Jahangir Alam Akash on December 20, 2009 at 4:19pm — No Comments

OFF THE CUFF • MY REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

Yesterday in Copenhagen the US President clearly demonstrated that he does not fully understand, recognize nor appreciate the extent of the unfolding climate crisis. The President of the United States just gave one of the most lackluster and empty speeches of his career to date. Sadly he even lobbed veiled threats to non-Annex I countries --those he dubs: "major emitters". Presidents ought not take talking points from their negotiators. President Obama has to set the bar for cli… Continue

Added by MK Dorsey on December 20, 2009 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

COP15 Remarks of President Barack Obama

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Copenhagen Summit Copenhagen, Denmark December 18, 2009 Good morning. It's an honor to for me to join this di… Continue

Added by Sarah Pickering on December 18, 2009 at 1:46pm — No Comments