{"id":1946,"date":"2009-12-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/12\/climate-change-conference-kicks-off-in-copenhagen-monday\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:37:01","slug":"climate-change-conference-kicks-off-in-copenhagen-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/climate-change-conference-kicks-off-in-copenhagen-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Conference Kicks Off in Copenhagen Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn advance of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/05\/area-climate-change-activists-to-join-copenhagen\/\">Ventura County Star<\/a><\/i> gives us more love:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is debate over whether any kind of meaningful international agreement will come out of the summit. But the local people attending think it will help push the climate issue further along and lay groundwork for a future agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe value is that we continue to work toward a climate solution,\u201d said Sarah Otterstrom, executive director of Paso Pacifico, a Ventura-based nonprofit that works to stop deforestation in Nicaragua. Along with Jane Goodall and a few others, Otterstrom will receive an award for her work.<\/p>\n<p>She wants to promote the concept of REDD \u2014 reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. If countries stopped cutting down forests \u2014 which suck up greenhouse gases \u2014 it would go a long way toward curbing climate change, she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In advance of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, the Ventura County Star gives us more love: There is debate over whether any kind of meaningful international agreement will come out of the summit. But the local people attending think it will help push the climate issue further along and lay groundwork for a future [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events-celebrations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}