Tag: College of the Atlantic

Negotiating their forests

COA Admin October 2, 2009 0 Comments
By Juan Carlos Soriano Every living person on this planet depends on forests for our survival, and the 60 million indigenous people who live in forests worldwide have been their primary guardians. An agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) under the climate negotiations will affect the rights of indigenous peoples. Currently, the language of the...

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...

The COA bike path to Copenhagen

COA Admin September 30, 2009 1 Comment
Welcome COA community, family, and friends. Earth in Brackets is now hosting the College of the Atlantic delegation that will participate in the United Nations Climate Change negotiations this coming December in Copenhagen, Denmark. The outcome of the agreement in Copenhagen will determine if the world transitions to clean energy; and moves forward to a cleaner, healthier and independent future...

State of play.

COA Admin December 16, 2008 0 Comments
COP14 is over, but what exactly does that mean? It means we are way behind. The most recent milestone of international climate negotiations was the development of the "Bali Action Plan" at COP13 last year. This document established a framework from which climate negotiations would proceed during the following 24 months leading up to Copenhagen. Not much has happened since then. We are no nearer a...

The waiting game.

COA Admin December 12, 2008 1 Comment
Sitting here in the plenary hall - about 30 people in the room. Not much going on. It's 9pm and we haven't even started the substantive work that was supposed to happen today. Just speeches. The COP and CMP decisions still need to be approved. I doubt this will be finalized tonight, but will anybody care enough to come back in the morning? The talks in Poznan have ended with a resounding "thud"....