That is why Youth Climate Action volunteers engage in climate change movement beyond borders.
2010 saw more CO2 spewed into the atmosphere than any year on record while our governments determined a few weeks ago at the Climate Conference in Durban essentially not to engage with climate change until 2020.
These companies, with their corrosive influence on politics, funding of climate-deniers, and abhorrent human rights records, will "engage" on climate change, while continuing to extract fossil fuels that we cannot burn if we wish to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
I'm flying to Australia so, just to get through the day, I'll have to engage in climate denial.
And then there was that bit where you said that "one side" wouldn't engage with climate deniers intelligently and how science is about being sceptical.
Many are simply struggling internally to understand business risks and opportunities, ensure consistent messaging, and find the capacity to engage in climate policy debates.
The Danish ambassador to Bolivia, Morten Elkjaer, tells a US diplomat that, at the Copenhagen summit, "Danish prime minister Rasmussen spent an unpleasant 30 minutes with Morales, during which Morales thanked him for [$30m a year in] bilateral aid, but refused to engage on climate change issues".
She is studying for a masters degree in human ecology, exploring "how the relationship between human systems and natural systems is broken, and how it can be rebuilt" – so that she can engage with climate change on a scientific and academic level.
Policy implications suggest that well-designed and advanced C2C networks with research and monitoring functions rather than simple networking functions can enable member cities to actively engage in climate policy cooperation.
