Category: Climate Change

Evo Morales at COP16

COA Admin December 11, 2010 0 Comments
-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...

Voices Suppressed become Shouts Heard as Youth are Detained at Moon Palace

mcalderon December 10, 2010 3 Comments
-Mariana, Tara, and Ayla "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!" It's the last official night of negotiations, and within their meeting rooms at the Moon Palace, negotiators argue and debate about what should come from Cancun. What is missing, however, is an important voice - that of civil society, impacted just as much as negotiators by climate change. That voice has been tentatively, then more...

Action Alert: Tell Canada and Japan to Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!

COA Admin December 10, 2010 0 Comments
-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

COA Admin December 9, 2010 0 Comments
-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...