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The Power of Media and COP21: A Reflection

Jenna Farineau December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Jenna Farineau “The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty look innocent, and that’s the power. Because they control the minds of the masses” - Malcom X Because they control the minds of the masses. The existence of COP21 stands tall upon the shoulders of the negotiators, Heads of States, the French government -...

Lost and damaged: International politics playing with our lives.

Kendall Cook December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Kendall Cook I found myself walking through the bourgeois neighborhood Saint-Germain, an ornate path to a prestigious institution where I was meeting an elite group of Loss and Damage experts. There were about twenty to twenty five people in the room, all professionals over the age of thirty, half of which were sustainable development directors of various NGOs, the other, self-involved...

The Youth Complex at COP21

Jenna Farineau December 7, 2015 1 Comment

By: Sara Velander and Jenna Farineau Each day at the Conference of Parties, a certain theme is chosen to frame the day’s events and actions, and this past Wednesday, December 4, bore the theme “Young and Future Generations.” Young people were running around expressing their cheery nature, while adults stood in front of them making speeches and while camera-men followed just behind to make...

Leaders Event and Japanese position toward the COP 21

Makiko Yoshida December 1, 2015 0 Comments

Leaders Event and Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Government of Japan on the Japanese position toward the COP 21 from the first day of Climate Negotiation by Makiko Yoshida November 30, 2015 marked the opening of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Le Bourget in Paris, France. This meeting also serves as the eleventh meeting of the...

What was it like being an observer for one day at the UN?

Angela Valenzuela October 28, 2015 0 Comments

by Angela Valenzuela. What was it like being an observer for a day in the last preparatory meeting for Paris COP21? Here there is a poem that I wrote after the last ADP session (Ad-hoc working group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action): The conviction for life and the breeze of change brought me to Bonn, to observe how love is lost, in the fast steps of this reunion. Diplomacy is...