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No surprise, Connie: Doha was a failure

Nathan Thanki January 5, 2013 0 Comments
This is a response to European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard’s article entitled "Why the Doha climate conference was a success." It is soon to be available on New York Times dotearth blog.  By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki Connie Hedegaard doesn’t respond to our tweets. She ignores us in the halls of UN climate talks. So when we read her in the...

Bad Boy Scout: The Importance of Process and Good-Faith Negotiations

Anjali Appadurai December 17, 2012 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai Sometimes I get frustrated with all the "procedural crap" that seems to govern any group process. has found it onerous to sit in YOUNGO meetings where process seems to be treated not as a means to an end, but rather as the end itself. Endless hand signals, protocols, rules, processes, tokenization of cultural and gender representation, and over-sensitivity can...

Youth Statement: Doha failed to deliver

greeder December 16, 2012 0 Comments
In light of a recent Guardian article by EU representative Connie Hedegaard and other media attention trying to dress up the catastrophic Doha outcome as a success, young people around the world issued the following statement to clear up the Doha Delusion: Youth Statement As COP18 came to a close last week, we were left with what can only be described as colossal betrayal and abandonment of the...

‎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...