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True Love Needs Commitment: the Unstable Relationship Between Japan and the Kyoto Protocol

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments

by Tara Allen The negotiations started off on the wrong foot Monday afternoon during the fifteenth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 15). Japan, the home country of the Kyoto Protocol, stated that it would never, ever sign on to a second commitment period of the document, as initially planned when KP was adopted by the...

COA’s booth at Youth and Future Generations action day.

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments

by Moisés Flores Baca Today is the Youth and Future Generations day and the YOUNGO, or Youth Constituency, is organizing a big series of various events to make the youth's voices be heard. One of these events will be the "Market of our Futures" at which the different NGO's that form the constituency will present different items for sale that symbolize the fact that our future is being sold...

The irony behind having the Climate Change negotiations be in Cancun.

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments

by Moisés Flores Baca "Cancun is the best example of ecosystems predation..." reads the first line of the cartoon above, published today by the left-wing newspaper "LaJornada", "The fact that it is the place where the environmental summit meant to save the planet is happening there seems to be a joke", reads the line in the middle. It is fair to acknowledge that LaJornada normally goes way over...

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...

Canada on the spotlight on the first day of the Climate Negotiations in Cancun

COA Admin November 30, 2010 0 Comments

by Moisés Flores Baca One of the side events that receives the most attention during Climate Change Conferences (since 1999) is the "Fossil of the Day" awards organized by the Climate Action Network (CAN). The award is given to the worst-performing country of the previous day. Yesterday Canada was the proud receiver of this award, not for its performing in the negotiations themselves since there...