Tag: climate action

World Leaders Lack Ambition to Tackle Climate Crisis

Crossposts April 9, 2015 0 Comments
* This blog was written by our friend, Dipti Bhatnagar and Susann Scherbarth from Friends of the Earth an International, and cross posted from IPS, “Poor and rural communities are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. It is them – who did the least to create this problem – who are suffering the most from it” BRUSSELS/MAPUTO, Apr 1 2015 (IPS) - World governments expect to...

No justice in Lima Outcome

Adrian December 16, 2014 1 Comment
Declaración de los grupos miembros de Justicia Climática que participaron en la COP, emitido la ultima noche de las negociaciones en rechazo al resultado de Lima. Versión en español disponible en la segunda parte de este blog.  No Justice in Lima Outcome (English) This is the statement prepared by CJ groups inside COP20 and published the last night of negotiations in rejection to the outcome...

Will the global climate talks address the challenges for agriculture?

Sara Velander December 11, 2014 0 Comments
Originally posted on December 8, 2014, in the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Think Forward blog. The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), a body under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), started on Monday, at the General Army Headquarters in Lima, Peru. With almost 30 tents set up across the premises, and thousands of representatives...

[Earth] intervention at the SBI closing session

Klever Descarpontriez December 10, 2014 0 Comments
On December 5, Maria Escalante of delivered the SBI closing session intervention for Climate Justice Now! On a day where UNEP has confirmed that the cost of adaptation is continuing to rise, and could become $500 billion per year or much higher by 2050, we have to register our deep disappointment and anger at the paltry sums thus far offered by the rich countries. You have money for wars and...

Kate Dooley Interview

Omer Shamir December 8, 2014 0 Comments
On Dec. 6 during the Global Landscape Forum (a side event happening in parallel with the COP) Kate Dooley, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne and an expert in carbon markets, carbon trading and forests and land-use, was part of a panel discussing “A rights-based approach to comprehensive land use planning”. Proceeding the talk, Kate was kind enough to give some of her time to make...