Press Conference: Declaration for Clean Energy
Watch the press conference of SJSF's Declaration for Clean Energy at the UN Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico!
Author: COA Admin
Evo Morales at COP16
-by Moisés Flores Baca It was around 10 am on Thursday, December ninth, and the COA COP16 delegation was due to have its daily meeting. Students slowly arrived to the coffe shop at Cancunmesse where the meeting was to take place. As we waited for the rest of the team to join us some of us fell onto Morpheus' arms, resting our heads against the table that is meant for the coffee shop's diners to...
Action Alert: Tell Canada and Japan to Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!
-by Juan C. Soriano Request from our friends from the Canadian Youth Delegation. Please post widely! And invite everyone you know on Facebook BREAKING: Canada was poised to be a major obstacle to negotiations by standing against the Kyoto Protocol process--but your pressure is paying off! The Canadian delegation appears to be holding its fire on Kyoto for the time being. There is a real sense...
The [im]possible outcome of Cancun
-by Juan C. Soriano At the beginning of the conference I wrote about countries coming to Cancun with low expectations but hoping to agree to a balanced outcome – in other words a balanced package of decisions involving mitigation, finance, accountability (Measurable, Reportable, and Verifiable or MRVs in UN lingo), and the legal form of the outcome. The negotiations are in their final stages...
The Mexico City Pact is Officially Presented at COP16
-by Moisés Flores Baca On November 21 of this year the the World Mayors Summit on Climate took place in Mexico City, there, mayors from 142 cities around the world signed the "Mexico City Pact", by which the signatories commit themselves to take meaningful action to reduce the emissions produced by their cities. Yesterday such pact, which contains the point of view on climate change and climate...