Aneesa Khan

A COP in Brackets

Jenna Farineau November 20, 2016 0 Comments

The 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Marrakech, Morocco, from November 7th to November 18th. In this blog post, the Earth in Brackets members who attended the conference reflect on their experiences and on the possible ways forward for the climate activist movement. Jenna Farineau: For 22 years, the world has been...

Credo

Kim April 27, 2016 0 Comments

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”...

Illustrating Water and Austerity – The Troikatastrophe

Aneesa Khan July 3, 2015 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan What would voting “yes” at the referendum on Sunday mean for the people of Greece? It would be a giant aye to the creditors to go ahead with bailout impositions upon the country – impositions that hit the citizens the hardest. These austerity measures (like pension cuts, privatization of public resources like water and motorways, increased taxes and reductions in government...

Youth`s almost intervention at the first day of SBSTA

Maria Escalante December 2, 2014 0 Comments

Yesterday, Aneesa Khan was going to speak on behalf of the youth constituency at the opening of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). The youth is given only two minutes to speak at the opening and closing of negotiations. This time, however, the chair did not even leave enough time for the intervention to be read. We are posting it here as we consider the messages...

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...