Tag: 2012

Human Rights and Equity: COP Intervention for CJN

Anjali Appadurai November 28, 2012 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai This tiny intervention (only 30 seconds permitted - an outrage in itself) was delivered by Anjali in the opening plenary of the COP. Nathan and Anjali collaborated on their interventions so as to have consistent, strong messaging between the two. This statement was delivered on behalf of Climate Justice Now!, a network of justice-focused organisations and movements across the...

Durban opened a new window: where do the emerging economies stand?

Angeline Annesteus November 28, 2012 0 Comments
by Angeline Annesteus The climate talks in Doha are expected to be an important step in the history of the United Nations climate negotiations. The Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working for Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) are mandated to culminate their work, and the second formal session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for...

Standing Committee and Long-Term Finance under UNFCCC

Bohdan Zymka November 28, 2012 0 Comments
by Bogdan Zymka Finance is a crucial aspect of making the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change an effective regime. The finance system under the UNFCCC is extremely complex. The beginning of the financial mechanism was established under Article 11 of the convention: “A mechanism for the provision of financial resources on a grant or concessional basis, including for the...

The kids are not alright: Frustration grows as the UNFCCC fails to actually address climate change

greeder November 28, 2012 0 Comments
by Graham Reeder In 1992, the world’s governments came together in Rio and agreed to a framework convention with the straightforward objective of achieving “the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” This was to be achieved “within a time frame sufficient...

In Response to: Doha Climate Talks: First Farce, then Tragedy

Katie O'Brien November 27, 2012 0 Comments
This post is in response to an article on the Youth Climate Movement Blog "It's Getting Hot in Here." You can find the original post here. Martha, I am here in Doha with Earth in Brackets a student group from College of the Atlantic who studies international environmental politics and diplomacy. I agree that the bureaucratic system and economic influences of COPs can be disheartening and seem...