Climate Change

How the Paris Agreement FCCC’ed Us Over

Aneesa Khan December 18, 2015 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan To be in a room for seven whole hours is arduous in itself. However, for that room to be one filled with painfully complacent idiots, the overpowering smell of corporate power, and sickeningly thundering applause? Well, that can only be described as torturous. Feelings along the lines of delirious levels of fury, profound misery and a fairly good amount of second-hand embarrassment...

Actions Make a Thousand Pictures

Kim December 17, 2015 0 Comments

By Kimberly Lopez Castellanos For the whole two weeks while in Paris, I was on the outside. Since the beginning of the course, I felt the need to network, communicate, and spread the stories of activists; whether these activists were from the frontline communities or some of the many youth trying to create a platform for the undermined voices that needed to be heard. The final days of COP21 were...

Lobbying Chronicles – Part III

Margherita Tommasini December 17, 2015 0 Comments

By Margherita Tommasini The lobbying tour, organized by Corporate Europe Observatory, took place on December 3rd 2015, with the goal of bringing the buildings of the Parisian business district La Dèfense to life: they are seats of power, where decisions are influenced, where lobbyists work and wield power. Read more about the tour and its first stop (Engie) at Lobbying Chronicles: Part I Read...

[Earth] Debrief COP21 at Uppsala University

Sara Velander December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Sara Velander After two and a half weeks of navigating our way across Paris whether it’s attending the circus of negotiations at the Le Bourget, taking frequent naps at our hostel at Gare du Nord, making banners at the art space in Jardin d’Alice or leading workshops at the Climate Action Zone, it is time for debrief. Once the negotiations ended and civil society demonstrations took place...

The WHAT after Paris?

Aura Silva Martinez December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Aura Silva Martinez There were over 160 people sitting in layers around a big, wide circle at the Climate Coalition 21 assembly. An ongoing wave of comments, questions and answers was being thrown to a multitude of unresponsive chairs. This was an overwhelming experience for me, and despite being a somewhat inefficient space where having a real, meaningful conversation was significantly...