Climate Change

Civil Society Rise On D12

Kim December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Kimberly Lopez Castellanos “Do not pour water over your eyes while your head is leaned back.” “Clench your fist to make room between your wrist and the handcuff.” Somehow, I found myself in the basement of an alternative space training for civil disobedience. Even the date, D12, sounds like Dooms Day. Why would I even think about being a part of it? For months, the French 'Coalition...

Oil, Gas and Coal, Back Up, Back Up!

Makiko Yoshida December 16, 2015 0 Comments

by Makiko Yoshida What the Paris Agreement has Failed to Achieve After four years of negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on December 12th. There are many reasons why many of us do not think that this agreement is sufficient to what the world needs despite what many media outlets have been reporting. Following the...

The Power of Media and COP21: A Reflection

Jenna Farineau December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Jenna Farineau “The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty look innocent, and that’s the power. Because they control the minds of the masses” - Malcom X Because they control the minds of the masses. The existence of COP21 stands tall upon the shoulders of the negotiators, Heads of States, the French government -...

Lost and damaged: International politics playing with our lives.

Kendall Cook December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Kendall Cook I found myself walking through the bourgeois neighborhood Saint-Germain, an ornate path to a prestigious institution where I was meeting an elite group of Loss and Damage experts. There were about twenty to twenty five people in the room, all professionals over the age of thirty, half of which were sustainable development directors of various NGOs, the other, self-involved...

Should we COP out?

Hana Keegan December 14, 2015 0 Comments

By Hana Keegan Unlike in the halls of the COP21, there are no suits, placards or microphones in the undecorated room of the Climate Coalition 21 (CC21) meeting. Established in preparation for the climate conference, the CC21 is an international coalition of civil society organisations that each identify themselves as members of the climate justice movement. On Rue Voltaire, a quiet, grey street...