Category: Climate Change

Survival for All.

COA Admin December 9, 2008 0 Comments
Alrighty, time for an update from Poznan. Things are going slow here, which is bad. We have less than a year at this point to get an incredibly strong international climate agreement - that is not a very long time. Especially with the level of ambition many developed countries have. But there is hope! The youth movement here is absolutely inspirational. That's the only way to describe it. We are...

BaliBuzz: A-day-in-the-life

COA Admin December 15, 2007 0 Comments
Right now there is an exceedingly long break in the action, so I thought I would take this time to give a look at what a day-in-the-life of a youth delegate at COP13 is like. My Friday and Saturday: 6:00am - Wake up after far too little sleep. Start the day’s work. (Going to sleep around 2am on the hotel floor because you passed out while writing a press release for the following days action is...

Closing session… the count down

COA Admin November 17, 2006 0 Comments
by Juan 9:20pm : The COPMOP2 has adopted all decisions. The issues of voluntary commitments have been forwarded for futher consultation prior to COP13. All decisions adopted can be characterized as insignificant compromises. Russia accepted to move on without a decision on their proposal for commitments by non -Annex I parties in return for accepting Belarus into the ‘hot air’ club. The...

Also our business

COA Admin November 17, 2006 0 Comments
by Sarah “Adaptation is also our business,”as stated by Andrew Defrancesco which was the title of a side even this afternoon put on by members of the EU. The room was packed, and as we sat in rows and sweated, the presenters made some interesting and important points. According to IPCC predictions, the Mediterranean is going to be one of the areas of the world most affected by climate change....

This is not political gloss-over

COA Admin November 17, 2006 0 Comments
by Sarah I feel pretty confident saying that some of the statements delivered in this morning’s high level segment by NGOs had the blood pumping through the veins of the room. Prior to the youth speech- which was delivered by three of our wonderful, intelligent, and inspiring number and ended in all of us calling loudly to pull together (”Harambe!”)- two African women in particular had a...