Nathan Thanki

‎Doha unveiled the hypocrisy behind UNFCCC encouraging youth participation

Nathan Thanki December 14, 2012 1 Comment

by Lurette Paulime I have been involved in the international youth climate movement before, but I have never seen youth activists experience such an enormous frustration as at COP18 in Doha. At COP16 in Cancun, young people were removed by the police and others got arrested but they did not lose their accreditations to the UNFCCC. Now, this issue is become more serious at the COP18 in Doha. Some...

This is tyranny: YOUNGO intervention to COP18 closing

Nathan Thanki December 10, 2012 0 Comments

This speech was given by Merna Ghaly of the Arab Youth Climate Movement to an empty plenary hall. The country delegates had all snaked away after the shameful acceptance of a decade of inaction. Nevertheless, civil society was still there till the bitter end, and we delivered strong messages of condemnation. We will be back, stronger than before... This deal is an insult to the world's most...

The Night Shift

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 1 Comment

by nathan thanki The minarets are blaring. A prayer might be all we have left. It's 5am on Saturday morning and a rag-tag bunch of rabble rousers are scattered across various benches in a temporary tent-come-food-court that we've named "westaurant." It's been a long night - one of frustration, confusion, and every negotiating tactic under the sun (or moon!) The details...

Urgent Letter to Connie Hedegaard from European Youth

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments

cross posted from pusheurope.eu Dear Commissioner Hedegaard, We, European youth and civil society, are writing to you in these critical final hours of the UN climate talks in Doha to demand that the EU acts now and changes its position at the UNFCCC. We have witnessed over the past two weeks the EU’s consistent refusal to live up to its responsibilities, and we condemn...

When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments

by nathan thanki It is the sometimes orthodoxy that any deal is better than no deal, that by degrees we can overcome the climate crisis. It is "common sense" that you take what you can get and live to fight another day. But all this piecemeal haggling simply moves us, degree Celsius by degree Celsius, toward an unlivable and somehow even more unjust world. Let's have a new...