Tag: climate

We stand with the Philippines

COA Admin December 6, 2012 0 Comments
Today in the AWG-KP closing plenary the Chair forwarded a contentious draft text to the next level of negotiations; the Phillipines gave this tearful intervention among applause from civil society Madam Chair, Thank you for giving me the floor. I wish to make a statement on behalf of my own country.   At the onset, let me fully support the statement made by Algeria on behalf of G77 and...

Doha climate deal is conditional: what other alternative does it leave for the Least Developed Countries?

Angeline Annesteus December 5, 2012 0 Comments
by Angeline Annesteus & Lurette Paulime One of our goals coming to the climate negotiations in Doha was to lobby the Haitian Government. We have been meeting with the delegates and have had some very thought-provoking conversations. However after a long discussion at lunch yesterday with the delegation and the Minister of the Environment, Jean Vilmond Hilaire, we realized how firm they...

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...

CJN! intervention to the ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
This statement is due to be delivered by Meena Raman from Third World Network, a member of Climate Justice Now! to the ADP plenary. When that plenary happens (it has been postponed several times) we will endeavour to upload a video.  It is astounding that developed countries appear to be engaging in doublespeak here in Doha. At your roundtable discussions, we heard them talk of climate...