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Category: Food
Land Use at COP22: What Happened and What’s Next?
By Sara Velander, Jenna Farineau, and Elaina Burress. After the final text of the Paris Agreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land-focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climate policy. According to Climate Focus, the Agreement made specific...
[Earth] member delivers SBSTA Closing Plenary Intervention at COP22
At every COP meeting, constituencies have the opportunity to address opening and closing plenaries through interventions. The closing of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice closed today at COP22, and a member of our COP22 delegation, Jenna Farineau, gave the speech on behalf of the UNFCCC youth constituency (special thanks and shoutout to all the people who worked on the...
Credo
by Aneesa Khan (Originally posted on The Odyssey Online) Climate activism burn-out and rediscovering a sense of hope in the movement for food justice. “Sorry to say this, but as party negotiators, do you think we care about what civil society says or does at these conferences? We don’t have the time.” “Why are you upset? It’s not even a real fight, it’s one of the privileged”...
The Need for Women and Gender Equality in the Text
By Kimberly Lopez Castellanos Men are predominantly seen as the “head of the household,” right? So wouldn’t a lot of the burden of keeping up with the household fall on them? If this is true, why is it that women are more vulnerable throughout the world? At this moment, women are suffering from inequality because they are the ones that provide stability and security not only for themselves...