November 14, 2016

[Earth] member delivers SBSTA Closing Plenary Intervention at COP22

Jenna Farineau November 14, 2016 0 Comments

At every COP meeting, constituencies have the opportunity to address opening and closing plenaries through interventions. The closing of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice closed today at COP22, and a member of our COP22 delegation, Jenna Farineau, gave the speech on behalf of the UNFCCC youth constituency (special thanks and shoutout to all the people who worked on the...

#ZeroFossilsDay

Andrea Fontana November 14, 2016 0 Comments

by Rachael Goldberg and Andrea Fontana Mobilized by 350.org, we joined a variety of climate justice groups that gathered today to demand governments to “freeze” the extraction and use of fossil fuels. Members of Earth in Brackets gathered with other Climate Justice groups and “froze” in the Blue Zone of COP22. The action was meant to draw attention to the report “The Sky’s Limit”...