{"id":5482,"date":"2011-12-03T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/africa-poland-disassociates-itself-from-shame-and-blame-fossil-award\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:59:22","slug":"africa-poland-disassociates-itself-from-shame-and-blame-fossil-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/africa-poland-disassociates-itself-from-shame-and-blame-fossil-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Poland &#8216;Disassociates&#8217; Itself From &#8216;Shame and Blame&#8217; Fossil Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reportingdna.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rdna180.jpg\" alt=\"Reporting Development Network Africa (Grahamstown)\" title=\"Visit Reporting Development Network Africa (Grahamstown)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Loewe<\/p>\n<p>3 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s formal complaint to the Climate Action Network over its &#8220;logo&#8221; being used when it won a notoriety award for the &#8220;Fossil of the Day&#8221; drew howls of laughter at last night&#8217;s award at the COP17 UN conference in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>There was more laughter at the hammed-up ceremony when 18-year-old Australian first-year drama student and announcer for the night, Isaac Astill, said Poland also &#8220;disassociated&#8221; itself from the award.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was no laughing matter when the cool, young and engaged crowd heard that the Canadian ruling party laughed in Parliament at receiving yet another &#8220;shame and blame&#8221; Fossil award &#8211; which Astill said seemed incongruous and unfeeling at time of climate change suffering for millions of people around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>See the original article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201112030201.html\" title=\"Africa: Poland 'Disassociates' Itself From 'Shame and Blame' Fossil Award\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa: Poland &#8216;Disassociates&#8217; Itself From &#8216;Shame and Blame&#8217; Fossil Award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mike Loewe 3 December 2011 Poland&#8217;s formal complaint to the Climate Action Network over its &#8220;logo&#8221; being used when it won a notoriety award for the &#8220;Fossil of the Day&#8221; drew howls of laughter at last night&#8217;s award at the COP17 UN conference in Durban. There was more laughter at the hammed-up ceremony when 18-year-old Australian first-year drama student and announcer for the night, Isaac Astill, said Poland also &#8220;disassociated&#8221; itself from the award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa: Poland &#039;Disassociates&#039; Itself From &#039;Shame and Blame&#039; Fossil Award - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/africa-poland-disassociates-itself-from-shame-and-blame-fossil-award\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Africa: Poland &#039;Disassociates&#039; Itself From &#039;Shame and Blame&#039; Fossil Award - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Mike Loewe 3 December 2011 Poland&#039;s formal complaint to the Climate Action Network over its &quot;logo&quot; being used when it won a notoriety award for the &quot;Fossil of the Day&quot; drew howls of laughter at last night&#039;s award at the COP17 UN conference in Durban. 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