Tag: climate change

Loss and Damage: Missing from the text

greeder December 5, 2012 0 Comments
by Graham Reeder and Katie O'Brien As we came to Doha last week, we were fully expecting Loss and Damage to be a key outcome of this conference in Doha. Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC went to the African Meeting of the Ministers of the Environment to encourage them to push for more adaptation outcomes at this COP (mostly because she saw it as the only real deliverable...

Latest sign on letter to Ministers on Loss and Damage now includes 45 NGOs and networks from around the world: take a look

greeder December 5, 2012 0 Comments
Cross posted from our Friends and CARE International Dear Minister, The world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and many fragile and precious ecosystems, are already being hit by the devastating impacts of climate change. As a coalition of NGOs and civil society groups representing millions of people who are extremely concerned about our changing climate, we are...

New Promises Old Challenges

jvelez December 3, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez Here we are once more in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, trying to understand the political games that happen in this space. Climate change is what it all boils down; it is the spearhead of effects that the globalized capitalist path to development has created. Climate change is the result of excessive and wasteful lifestyles that are present mostly in...

Lessons Learned: Women and Climate Change

lpaulime December 1, 2012 0 Comments
by Lurette Paulime While women represent more than 50 percent of the worldwide population, they are the most affected by the adverse impact of climate change. In many developing countries, women are the ones responsible for the agricultural production. Those who live in rural areas make substantial contributions in promoting sustainable development. Even with scarce...

[earth] plans an outing

COA Admin November 30, 2012 0 Comments
on a lighter note...  real life email thread  straight from Doha... where the weekend approaches. and we don't know how to react.  (photo cred: Cam Fenton) Chair's text:  Salaams, As Minister of Fun Times, I give you a brief update from home base. Down-time: Suben informs me that there is a town built for the movie 'Transformers', an epic tale of love and machinery starring Shaia LeBeef, a...