Tag: climate

YOUNGOs to Fight for Climate Justice

COA Admin December 6, 2010 0 Comments
by Mariana Calderon Youth NGOs have long had an active voice in the negotiations, a role that take large amounts of coordination, planning, and hard work. Bright and early at 8:30 every morning, representatives from a variety of youth organizations gather to discuss and decide on matters regarding the YOUNGO position, actions, and campaigns. Recently, the YOUNGO Article 6 working group's efforts...

Klimaforum on the Youth and Future Generations day: a disappointment.

COA Admin December 3, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca Note: I started writing this entry before Graham Reeder his about the Klimaforum, so I apologize if I repeat something he already mentioned. I think I speak  not only of behalf of my fellow COA COP16 delegates, but also on behalf of many other delegates from other youth organizations when I say that yesterday the 'alternative' forum of the civil society called Klimaforum...

Day 2: Low expectations: How did we get here?

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments
by Juan Soriano The sixteenth session of the climate change negotiations opened yesterday at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico. A year has passed from the meeting in Copenhagen which failed to deliver a fair, ambitious, and binding deal. As opposed to last year’s high expectations in Copenhagen, this year expectations are rather low. Both countries and observer organizations are seeing...

An introduction to climate finance…

COA Admin December 9, 2009 0 Comments
by Richard Van Kampen Sitting in the back of the first plenary meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) at the COP15 in Copenhagen, I wonder what kind of agreement, if any, will actually come out of this round of negotiations. I’m not pessimistic on the issue, however considering the progress of past negotiations under the UNFCCC, there is a significant amount of progress that...

Talking climate in Bangkok

COA Admin September 30, 2009 1 Comment
by Lauren Nutter (Our bikers Juan Carlos Soriano and Lauren Nutter are currently attending the Bangkok Climate Change Talks 2009) After waking up at 3:30 in the morning to head to the airport, and finding frost on my car already thanks to the lovely Maine climate, I was happy to arrive to the warmer weather of Bangkok.  More importantly, I was excited to see some progress at the next negotiating...