Category: Climate Change

COA’s booth at Youth and Future Generations action day.

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca Today is the Youth and Future Generations day and the YOUNGO, or Youth Constituency, is organizing a big series of various events to make the youth's voices be heard. One of these events will be the "Market of our Futures" at which the different NGO's that form the constituency will present different items for sale that symbolize the fact that our future is being sold...

The irony behind having the Climate Change negotiations be in Cancun.

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca "Cancun is the best example of ecosystems predation..." reads the first line of the cartoon above, published today by the left-wing newspaper "LaJornada", "The fact that it is the place where the environmental summit meant to save the planet is happening there seems to be a joke", reads the line in the middle. It is fair to acknowledge that LaJornada normally goes way over...

Day 2: Low expectations: How did we get here?

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments
by Juan Soriano The sixteenth session of the climate change negotiations opened yesterday at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico. A year has passed from the meeting in Copenhagen which failed to deliver a fair, ambitious, and binding deal. As opposed to last year’s high expectations in Copenhagen, this year expectations are rather low. Both countries and observer organizations are seeing...

Canada on the spotlight on the first day of the Climate Negotiations in Cancun

COA Admin November 30, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca One of the side events that receives the most attention during Climate Change Conferences (since 1999) is the "Fossil of the Day" awards organized by the Climate Action Network (CAN). The award is given to the worst-performing country of the previous day. Yesterday Canada was the proud receiver of this award, not for its performing in the negotiations themselves since there...

Delays, confusion, misinformation: Cancun Day 1

COA Admin November 30, 2010 1 Comment
by Lindsay Britton “Every hour which we spend in useless transport and in useless bureaucracy is an hour less spent working and an hour less spent on coverage of this very, very important conference. Can you please find a way of speeding things up so we are not caught in traffic jams and we are not caught in places where we cannot get taxis and we are able to work?” -Richard Ingham, French...