Tag: climate change

End Gaza War Now!

Maria Escalante July 23, 2014 0 Comments
Since this letter demanding the ceasing of Israeli attacks in Gaza was issued, the number of Palestinian deaths has doubled and thousands more are injured. At social preCCOP: Earth in Brackets, along many other civil society organizations, condemns the continued Israeili attacks on the besieged people of Gaza  July 18th, 2014 For 10 days, the Israeli army has continued to intensify its bombings...

Divided before a Changing Climate

khristian July 23, 2014 0 Comments
by khristian méndez // Bright eyed and still a little weary from a charged first day, the First National Congress on Climate Change carried on today in Guatemala City. As I wrote yesterday, there's quite a spectrum of political actors and stakeholders regarding climate change. Today, the voices began to show stronger colors, some in stark contrast of each other, characterizing the different...

Weaving Climate Knowledge in a Torn-Apart Country: the First Guatemalan Congress on Climate Change

khristian July 22, 2014 0 Comments
by khristian méndez //   History was made today in Guatemala City: Government entities, private sector representatives, all but one of the universities in the country, international organizations, NGOs and indigenous peoples all came together for the First National Congress on Climate Change. To top off a rare collaboration: the presence and keynote address of Vicente Barros, Co-Chair from...

Changing the System, Not the Climate: July Social PreCOP begins

Nathan Thanki July 15, 2014 0 Comments
by nathan thanki Greetings from Las Islas Margaritas, the site of the first ever social preCOP on climate change. Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations. We have watched and written as the process to negotiate a new global climate treaty (or whatever) was...

Can we score goals in the right place? – Day 2+3 OWG12

khristian June 18, 2014 0 Comments
by khristian méndez // Inside the Headquarters of the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goals are being negotiated. Negotiations are taking place not only between governments at the formal and informal negotiations at the ECOSOC Chamber, but also outside of it in bilaterals, between Major Groups and other stakeholders. Chairs are asking to trim down numbers of targets and goals,...