Category: Climate Change

History will judge you

COA Admin October 9, 2009 1 Comment
by Lauren Nutter The final day of Bangkok is now wrapping up.  It's only morning here and now youth are sitting in the plenary for the Ad-hoc working group on the Kyoto Protocol.  It's a bittersweet end to the talks... I want to be hopeful but I fail to muster much hope.  Really I guess my hope lies outside of these processes; it lies in knowing that youth all over the world, despite this...

Prostituting our natural forests to the higher bidder

COA Admin October 8, 2009 0 Comments
by Juan Carlos Soriano Over the weekend, the Secretariat circulated Non-paper No. 11 with consolidated text for the negotiations to establish a mechanism to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD). I felt that the REED discussions were sort of moving forward, the text was shorter but the number of contentious issues remained the same. The...

Why I shouldn’t date an Annex I guy?

COA Admin October 7, 2009 0 Comments
by India Leela Raina from the Adopt A Negotiator project  To date or not to date and why? Among the 12 of us tracking the delegations here in Bangkok , I’m really tempted to go out in the evenings after a hard day’s work in the negotiations. I think after running after 60-year-old negotiators from my country I require some youthful energy to enthuse the atmosphere! From the perspective of a...

International youth sound the alarm

COA Admin October 7, 2009 1 Comment
All the youth attending the talks here in Bangkok gathered for a press conference this afternoon. Below is our press release. INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SOUND THE ALARM: WE ARE ON ROAD TO FAILURE! International Youth has declared “No Confidence” in the road to Copenhagen. Bangkok – A declaration of “No Confidence in the Road to Copenhagen” was announced today by the International Youth...

Where are we at?

COA Admin October 6, 2009 0 Comments
By Lauren Nutter Exhaustion is the first word that comes to mind personally.  But in all seriousness, now fully in the second week of negotiations, I find myself asking where are we at?  I find myself in a bizarre and somewhat conflicted state. On one hand the 200 page text we started with here in Bangkok has been consolidated, and countries are being quite frank about outlining their deal...