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Land Use at COP22: What Happened and What’s Next?

Sara Velander November 15, 2016 1 Comment

By Sara Velander, Jenna Farineau, and Elaina Burress. After the final text of the Paris Agreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land-focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climate policy. According to Climate Focus, the Agreement made specific...

What am I supposed to do with my feelings?

Margherita Tommasini November 15, 2016 0 Comments

By Margherita Tommasini I experience panic attacks. I already share this struggle with the people I love, so it does not really matter if now the Internet will know about it. I sort of knew what I was getting into. Last year I attended COP21 in Paris. I did not have accreditation for the Blue Zone, but I spent the three weeks in the Ville Lumières engaging with different levels of civil society...

[Earth] member delivers SBSTA Closing Plenary Intervention at COP22

Jenna Farineau November 14, 2016 0 Comments

At every COP meeting, constituencies have the opportunity to address opening and closing plenaries through interventions. The closing of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice closed today at COP22, and a member of our COP22 delegation, Jenna Farineau, gave the speech on behalf of the UNFCCC youth constituency (special thanks and shoutout to all the people who worked on the...

#ZeroFossilsDay

Andrea Fontana November 14, 2016 0 Comments

by Rachael Goldberg and Andrea Fontana Mobilized by 350.org, we joined a variety of climate justice groups that gathered today to demand governments to “freeze” the extraction and use of fossil fuels. Members of Earth in Brackets gathered with other Climate Justice groups and “froze” in the Blue Zone of COP22. The action was meant to draw attention to the report “The Sky’s Limit”...

“If no one can listen to [us] when [we’re] alone, then we must do it collectively”

Jenna Farineau November 12, 2016 0 Comments

by Elaina Burress and Jenna Farineau "I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back." ―Malala Yousafzai Just two days ago, Sada Albachir and Agnes Leina from the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee along with Tafadzwa Dhlakama of the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association spoke on a...