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		<title>Climate diplomacy: Copenhagen versus Kyoto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that China and India have formally adhered to the Copenhagen Accord, climate diplomacy has two different ways to go. And they’re not comparable, nor totally compatible.
Sergio Abranches
The Copenhagen Accord has become the most representative global climate political agreement since the Framework Convention on Climate Change, that entered into force on 21, March, 1994. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/03/10/climate-diplomacy-copenhagen-versus-kyoto/</link>
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		<title>Sustainability: a task for market leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sérgio Abranches
Sustainability cannot be a solitary quest of a few heroic companies. It has to be a collective action within and across the major supply chains of the economy. Yet, larger corporations have a leading role to get any real progress in greening the supply chain.I was once speaking about corporate and public corruption, illegal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/03/05/sustainability-a-task-for-market-leaders/</link>
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		<title>There are no natural disasters, only social catastrophes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches
Put together an extreme natural event, a vulnerable population and a reckless government and a social catastrophe is very likely to obtain. The cost: a large preventable death toll.
“Carelessness could be the biggest enemy. In the past, even if the waves were not so big, there has been great damage with 2-metre high tsunami,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/03/01/there-are-no-natural-disasters-only-social-catastrophes/</link>
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		<title>Climate Change 2010: In search of a realistic agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches
Are we are moving backwards on climate change policy? The energy law in the US seems farther away today than at year end. IPCC seems to be at bay. Deniers seem to be having their heyday. The social movement seems to be too quiet. Support to the Copenhagen Accord has been at the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/02/17/climate-change-2010-in-search-of-a-realistic-agenda/</link>
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		<title>The Brazilian Wetland &#8211; Pantanal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian Wetland, the Pantanal is highly endangered by unregulated and illegal economic activities that lead to logging, wildfires, land clearing, water pollution, and erosion. Here a remainder of this endangered biodiversity treasure.

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		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/02/01/the-brazilian-wetland-pantanal/</link>
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		<title>The Copenhagen Accord lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches
While the U.S. and the European Union embraced the Copenhagen Accord with no reserves, the BASIC countries said the Accord is not legal. The only legal instrument they accept is the Kyoto Protocol. Does it really matter if they adhere and record their quantitative voluntary actions? Is this an important divide between developed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/01/30/the-copenhagen-accord-lives/</link>
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		<title>Brazil still has to enable climate change law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After approving the climate change law the Brazilian government now has yet to approve the rules that will allow its enactment.
Sergio Abranches
It is an extensive and complex law with many stakeholders. During the legislative process a few amendments have improved it to some extent. One of them, for instance, has included the emissions reduction targets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/01/26/brazil-still-has-to-enable-climate-change-law/</link>
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		<title>IPCC’s reaction to the Himalayan meltdown affair too weak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergio Abranches
The mistake about the Himalayan glaciers meltdown deserves a stronger statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change &#8211; IPCC. The case is not central do the core evidence on climate change, but it is not a minor issue either.
Let’s begin with the facts. Several geologists contested the inclusion in the latest report of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/01/22/ipcc%e2%80%99s-reaction-to-the-himalayan-meltdown-affair-too-weak/</link>
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		<title>Think of Haiti, pray for Haiti, be a Haitian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sérgio Abranches
If history will repeat itself again in Haiti, the country runs the risk of plunging into deep social regression. It is on the verge of a dreadful state of nature. A state where people are led by instinct, fed by pain, anger, despair, and distrust.
History is not fate, or destiny. It is the result [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/01/18/think-of-haiti-pray-for-haiti-be-a-haitian/</link>
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		<title>Twitter meets climate change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wandering across the corridors formed by the long tables in the Bella Center’s Media Center, I could see that most of the journalists there were using Twitter.
Sergio Abranches
If 2009 was the Year  of Twitter, it was also the year Twitter has become a solid journalistic tool to cover climate change, and a widely used resource [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecopolity.com/2010/01/05/twitter-meets-climate-change/</link>
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