Tag: civil society

The pre-COP: a chance we must take

Adrian December 29, 2013 1 Comment
by Maria Escalante & Adrian Fernandez Jauregui Coming to the Conference of the Parties this year at Warsaw, Poland (COP19) confirmed us that climate change negotiations, under the UNFCCC, are not advancing in even reducing the only incremental climate change impacts, much less considerably mitigating global carbon emissions, transferring resources for adaptation, or fairly compensating...

Development Justice Now! Declaration of the Peoples’ Global Camp at WTO

guest December 8, 2013 0 Comments
as the latest WTO round closed in Bali this week, we are cross-posting the declaration which came out of the Peoples' Global Camp. We, representatives of people’s organizations, social movements and political forces come together in the People’s Global Camp (PGC) in Denpasar, Bali on December 3-6, 2013 to collectively expose, resist and call to junk the renewed neoliberal offensives of the...

Days 10-11 Policy Updates: The Storm Before the Storm

Nathan Thanki November 22, 2013 0 Comments
By Nathan Thanki with input from Katie O'Brien, Anjali Appadurai, and others. Photos by Rachel Wells In short, the negotiations are falling apart. We say that with utmost respect for the work being done by our negotiator allies and friends among civil society observers. It is not their fault. Nor is it the fault of the UNFCCC per se, though its Secretariat must shoulder some blame. The...

Day 8 Policy Updates: Coal-land

aodell November 18, 2013 0 Comments
By Anna Odell and Bohdan Zymka SBSTA closed early Sunday morning (late Saturday night) and SBI closed this morning before the stock-taking plenary. Overall, the G77 remains unified in the face of growing political pressure, particularly on the issues of loss and damage and finance. The G77 has stated that they won’t discuss post 2020 finance until pre 2020 finance has been addressed, and LDCs...

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...