Summary Report (COP19), Warsaw, PolandDecember 4, 2013By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Learning in Warsaw The IETA and Climate Profit There was a small meeting room down a hard-to-find hallway on one of the five floors of the vast, mildly disorienting (depending on the degree of your jet lag) Stadion Narodowy (National Stadium) in the midst of Warsaw where the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP […]

Report #3 December 30, 2010By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Cancún’s Question: Is Climate Change an Issue for “Social Movements” or Just Another Business Proposition? Click on photos for larger images In seeking opinion to help determine the relative success or failure of the UN climate change conference in Cancún this year, it is impossible not to notice how little coverage of any kind the major […]

Report #2December 7, 2010 by David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Cancun Climate Summit The Police The Policia Federal are everywhere now in Cancún. Gouts of them stationed along various points on the highway, placed according to a plan that is not immediately evident. They are especially thick, of course, anywhere near Cancún Messe, the convention center outside of the city where part of the UN Climate Conference, COP […]

David Simpson is a long-time Northern California bioregional pioneer and community leader based in the deeply rural Mattole River Valley of Humboldt County. Having written about and performed theater pieces with his partner Jane Lapiner on the subject of climate change in many places for several decades, they went to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in whatever ways seemed appropriate. Now David and Jane are […]

Report #6January 11, 2010By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen-Gone But Not Forgotten This is a long, somewhat tortured essay on experiences and perspective gleaned by an amateur in both climate science and journalism in Copenhagen. If it does not subtract from the crucial ongoing dialogue, I will be relieved, If it adds even one small iota of perspective that is useful to the cause […]

Report #5 December 17, 2009By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen and the Nature of Power To readers. Please forgive the tardiness of this essay. I think you will find it still quite relevant even though the COP 15 has been declared officially over as of about 3 PM today when UNFCC Director, Ivo De Boer, gave his last press conference. He did what he […]