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Since December there has been a glut of stories challenging the science of climate change as represented by the IPCC. Should we be concerned? Only about climate change.

At the beginning of 2009, faced with a climate in crisis, a Government not taking it seriously and the huge opportunity that the Copenhagen summit presented, we decided it was time to get a lot of people to step up and say yes, we want action on climate change a

As the dust settles after Copenhagen, despite the disappointment we all feel at such a wasted opportunity, there is much to give hope.

It's been an amazing year and we've come a long way. Our leaders failed us in Copenhagen but their failure will inspire action. We will not give up until John Key commits to a target of 40 per cent by 2020.

It's important that the truth about Copenhagen is told. What follows is a message from the Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo.

It’s over. The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties has officially drawn to a close (or rather all but collapsed), but what are we left with?

Auckland 19 December 2009 - Global leaders have today failed to act to avert catastrophic climate change, says Greenpeace.

A weak outcome has so-far emerged from the UN climate talks. The deal is not ambitious, unfair, not legally binding and likely to put the world on a path to at least a 3C temperature rise.

This is big news.

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, writes to Barack Obama on the eve of his departure for Copenhagen for the COP15 climate talks.

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