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Day 3 Policy Updates: Contact Groups

Lara Shirley November 14, 2013 0 Comments
by Lara Shirley There has been a general breakdown of bigger negotiations into smaller contact groups, which are often closed. COP In Finance, all agenda items were discussed. However, long term finance proved to be the most contentious. Philippines on behalf of the G77 stressed the importance of clarity in the pledged 100 billion per year by 2020 and urged scaling up of finance from the Fast...

Day 2 Policy Updates: Welcome to COP

Nathan Thanki November 14, 2013 0 Comments
by Bogdan Zymka and Lara Shirley Since these were the first two days of COP19, not much exciting has happened: only a couple contentious discussions in various forums. In the COP (Conference of the Parties), the G77+China strongly emphasized the need for a finance roadmap and strong mitigation targets calling it "an implementation COP". Definite finance targets are on track to become a key...

COP19 Warsaw: The Big Fights, Red Lines and Initial Predictions

aodell November 10, 2013 3 Comments
by Anna Odell and Maria Alejandra Escalante Thousands gather in Warsaw as typhoon Yolanda (internationally named typhoon Haiyan) ravages the Philippines, leaving up to 10,000 people dead, hundreds of thousands of people displaced, and destroying entire communities and towns. This catastrophe, the largest typhoon in recorded history, cannot go unacknowledged, and those parties responsible for...

The Night Shift

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 1 Comment
by nathan thanki The minarets are blaring. A prayer might be all we have left. It's 5am on Saturday morning and a rag-tag bunch of rabble rousers are scattered across various benches in a temporary tent-come-food-court that we've named "westaurant."  It's been a long night - one of frustration, confusion, and every negotiating tactic under the sun (or moon!) The details...

Urgent Letter to Connie Hedegaard from European Youth

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments
cross posted from pusheurope.eu   Dear Commissioner Hedegaard,  We, European youth and civil society, are writing to you in these critical final hours of the UN climate talks in Doha to demand that the EU acts now and changes its position at the UNFCCC. We have witnessed over the past two weeks the EU’s consistent refusal to live up to its responsibilities, and we condemn...