Adrian Fernandez Jauregui

Press Release: Climate activists thrown out for solidarity with victims of typhoon Haiyan

Youth Civil Society November 13, 2013 1 Comment

12 NOVEMBER 2013 The UN climate talks opened on Monday in the backdrop of the devastating impacts of Typhoon Haiyan one of the strongest storms ever to hit landfall. Yeb Sano, climate commissioner for the Philippines made an electrifying and emotional appeal for action on climate. Delegates held an unprecedented 3 minute silence in solidarity, and Mr. Sano broke down recounting how his brother...

I mean come on guys, this is up to us, we have to do it

Surya Karki October 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Surya Karki and Aneesa Khan After 15 hours in our little Toyota Corolla, sleep deprived and hungry, we stumbled into the David L. Lawrence convention center in Pittsburgh on Friday the 18th. We were about an hour late for the opening keynote speech so we made a mad dash for the second floor. We walked into a ballroom buzzing with energy and we could feel it all around us. 10,000 people were...

We are in this together: reflections on the youth activist gathering at Powershift

Adrian October 28, 2013 0 Comments

by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui This past weekend, a delegation of earth in brackets went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to participate in Powershift, a large gathering of about ten thousand youth activists, coming from all over the US, working on environmental related issues. We went to Powershift to connect with other youth activists, to share our perspective of climate justice, particularly in...

Too bad no one really wanted sustainable development

Adrian June 24, 2012 1 Comment

by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui Rio+20 has come to an end. After an almost two and a half years long process governments finally came to an agreement just before the heads of state and ministers arrived to Rio de Janeiro. The outcome 49 pages text was inaccurately called ¨the future we want¨, but then re-named to Our common vision. It was tough, even for them, to...

A Leopard Doesn’t Change Its Spots

Nathan Thanki June 14, 2012 0 Comments

Thoughts on the "Green Economy" and Rio+20 by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui Published on Stakeholder Forum's Outreach magazine It’s been almost 2 years of mounting excitement around the Rio+20 conference. But what is there to be excited about? How has the world changed in the past 20 years since Rio? Has the lot of the world’s poor been improved?...