Beyond the Negotiations

What was it like being an observer for one day at the UN?

Angela Valenzuela October 28, 2015 0 Comments

by Angela Valenzuela. What was it like being an observer for a day in the last preparatory meeting for Paris COP21? Here there is a poem that I wrote after the last ADP session (Ad-hoc working group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action): The conviction for life and the breeze of change brought me to Bonn, to observe how love is lost, in the fast steps of this reunion. Diplomacy is...

Justicia Climática e Interseccionalidad

Adrian September 4, 2015 0 Comments

* Artículo escrito y compilado por Majandra Rodriguez Acha (fb),una amiga y aliada del Peru. El Artículo fue publicado originalmente en TierrActiva Perú. Las actividades, acciones y contenidos de TierrActiva Perú se basan en un enfoque de Justicia Climática e Interseccionalidad. ¿Qué es la Interseccionalidad? La interseccionalidad se centra en cómo las categorías sociales como el...

Climate of Conscience

Aneesa Khan August 17, 2015 0 Comments

Re-posted from Medium, written by the Tipping Point Collective As climate justice activists, we know that our movement is deeply connected with others such as those for gender, race, and migration (to name a few). But how do we, in our fight for the climate, show solidarity with these movements and adapt our narrative so that we are allies in their fights for system change? Check out this...

Illustrating Water and Austerity – The Troikatastrophe

Aneesa Khan July 3, 2015 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan What would voting “yes” at the referendum on Sunday mean for the people of Greece? It would be a giant aye to the creditors to go ahead with bailout impositions upon the country – impositions that hit the citizens the hardest. These austerity measures (like pension cuts, privatization of public resources like water and motorways, increased taxes and reductions in government...

No justice in Lima Outcome

Adrian December 16, 2014 1 Comment

Declaración de los grupos miembros de Justicia Climática que participaron en la COP, emitido la ultima noche de las negociaciones en rechazo al resultado de Lima. Versión en español disponible en la segunda parte de este blog. No Justice in Lima Outcome (English) This is the statement prepared by CJ groups inside COP20 and published the last night of negotiations in rejection to the outcome...