Category: COP18

A letter to ministers and negotiators who care about people and the climate

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
Earth in Brackets fully supports this letter from social movements, farmers' organisations, civil society groups, faither-based organisations, youth, indigenous peoples, NGOs and networks present at UNFCCC COP18. The letter can also be viewed here.  

Loss and Damage: Missing from the text

greeder December 5, 2012 0 Comments
by Graham Reeder and Katie O'Brien As we came to Doha last week, we were fully expecting Loss and Damage to be a key outcome of this conference in Doha. Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC went to the African Meeting of the Ministers of the Environment to encourage them to push for more adaptation outcomes at this COP (mostly because she saw it as the only real deliverable...

Latest sign on letter to Ministers on Loss and Damage now includes 45 NGOs and networks from around the world: take a look

greeder December 5, 2012 0 Comments
Cross posted from our Friends and CARE International Dear Minister, The world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and many fragile and precious ecosystems, are already being hit by the devastating impacts of climate change. As a coalition of NGOs and civil society groups representing millions of people who are extremely concerned about our changing climate, we are...

CJN! intervention to the ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
This statement is due to be delivered by Meena Raman from Third World Network, a member of Climate Justice Now! to the ADP plenary. When that plenary happens (it has been postponed several times) we will endeavour to upload a video.  It is astounding that developed countries appear to be engaging in doublespeak here in Doha. At your roundtable discussions, we heard them talk of climate...

YOUNGO intervention to ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
The below statement was planned to be delivered by Fadi el Masry of the International Federation of Liberal Youth on behalf of Youth groups and delivered to the informal plenary of the Ad-Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). That plenary has been postponed for several days in a row - when or if it happens we will try to post the video, but for now here is...