Category: Climate Change

No People at the People’s Forum

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments
by Graham Reeder Yesterday I spent the day at Klimaforum, an alternate forum the the UNFCCC negotiation pioneered by grassroots organisations that “rises as an opportunity within the crisis, to not only address the related issues and propose solutions, but make decisions about our involvement in the unfolding of earths destiny.” Klimaforum aims to bring different actors in civil society that...

Lost in the Jungle

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments
by Mariana Calderón Or: How Does This Whole Conference Thing Work, and What Are You Guys Doing There Anyways? ( An explanation as to how this place is set up, and how we're learning what we're learning) Just imagine: 60+ youth participants in blue shirts, scurrying in a mob down a dirt path in a pitch-dark jungle, with only a few scattered flashlights and headlamps to guide them. People were...

Is it fascism or not?, reflections on freedom within the environmental struggle

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca In my History of Filmmaking class this past Fall term we got the opportunity to look at various films that are considered propagandistic, including a few by the famous german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who worked during Hitler's regime being one of his favorite people. When we think of the Nazi regime normally nothing positive comes to mind. This is why it came as a big...

Kyoto Must Die!

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by Jane I. P. Nurse It's the third day of the negotiations and there are dark clouds hovering over the Kyoto Protocol. Japan has shocked us all with an aggressive up-start at the beginning of this week. By proclaiming that it won't sign on to a second commitment period after the Kyoto protocol runs out in 2012, it basically backstabs everybody trying to push for further emission reduction...

True Love Needs Commitment: the Unstable Relationship Between Japan and the Kyoto Protocol

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by Tara Allen The negotiations started off on the wrong foot Monday afternoon during the fifteenth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 15). Japan, the home country of the Kyoto Protocol, stated that it would never, ever sign on to a second commitment period of the document, as initially planned when KP was adopted by the...