Emily Gertz: September 2009 Archives

Climate Week 2009: Boon or bust? Last week, leaders from around the world came to a U.N. Climate Summit in New York, where President Obama will gave a hotly anticipated speech on climate change and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hoped to make real progress toward a new international climate treaty. Activists were out in force at a slew of climate-related events in NYC, and then took the show to Pittsburgh, where world leaders assembled for a G20 summit.

Here are links to my reporting for Grist and Globalwarming.change.org on both confabs.

I warmly thank ClimateVoice and G20Voice, projects of Oxfam, for sponsoring my access to both events.

Oxfam neither asked for nor had any editorial control over my reporting. But to help myself and several other online journalists and bloggers cover underreported issues like climate change and poverty, Oxfam enthusiastically went to bat for credentials for Voice participants, helped us to connect with sources, provided us with comfortable and equipped workspaces, and covered our travel and lodging costs.

For Grist:

Climate Week kicks off in New York with bigwigs and big hopes, Sept. 20, 2009

Flash mobs barrage Obama and other world leaders with calls for climate action, Sept. 21, 2009

People pressure is key to action on climate change, say two climate movement leaders, Sept. 21, 2009

China steals Climate Week spotlight, but U.S. still in the hot seat, Sept. 23, 2009

Boxer, Kerry will introduce Senate climate bill next week, Sept. 24, 2009

Actor Djimon Hounsou wants to show the human costs of climate change, Sept. 24, 2009

SurvivaBall: Your individual climate-change adaptation strategy, Sept. 24, 2009

Climate protesters hit the streets in Pittsburgh during G20 meeting, Sept. 25, 2009

G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves, Sept. 25, 2009

To come: Interview with Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) on climate change, Congress, and the greening of Pittsburgh

For Globalwarming.change.org: