climate negotiations

Finishing Off the Business in Durban – Developing Country Perspectives

COA Admin December 6, 2010 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai It was my good fortune to be invited to a high-level cocktail party by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Friday night. Pavan Sukhdev, head of the initiative, was speaking on the negative effects of meat production on our food systems, but his speech was almost drowned out by the vast number of people who were too busy chatting and...

No People at the People’s Forum

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments

by Graham Reeder Yesterday I spent the day at Klimaforum, an alternate forum the the UNFCCC negotiation pioneered by grassroots organisations that “rises as an opportunity within the crisis, to not only address the related issues and propose solutions, but make decisions about our involvement in the unfolding of earths destiny.” Klimaforum aims to bring different actors in civil society that...