goethe.de/climate - Magazine - Copenhagen 2009

Climate Protection Without Cultural Change? An Interview with Udo E. Simonis on the debacle of Copenhagen

Considering all the hopes and expectations people had placed in it, there is no other way of viewing the climate change conference in Copenhagen than as a complete flop. So where do we go from here? An Interview with Udo E. Simonis.More ...

Back from Hopenhagen

At the moment of writing this I am on my way back from Copenhagen, where I travelled to attend the climate negotiations, seminars, and a mass demonstration, and to write articles for a Finnish climate website. More ...

Climate Worlds on the ground: Copenhagen V

Last Sunday the audience at Klimaforum09, the People's Climate Summit, started enthusiastically to clap when the moderator announced renowned Indian physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva with the words of Time magazine, “hero for the planet”. More...

Culture|Futures: Symposium and Working Seminar

As a contribution to the United Nations Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen (COP15) some of the world’s most influential cultural organizations will get together to develop a message for an Ecological Age by 2050 which will be officially delivered to COP15. More...

Claus Leggewie on Culture and the Climate: "Our Daily Copenhagen"

(8 December 2009) We have green electricity in our outlets, organic products on supermarket shelves and climate-neutral air travel: How does climate change actually impact our culture? The cultural scientist Claus Leggewie talks about responsibility, fair-minded emissions trade and the contributions of cultural work to climate protection.More ...