Tag: COP18

Climate induced genocide? Youth intervention to CMP plenary

jvelez November 27, 2012 0 Comments
delivered by Julian Velez on behalf of Youth NGOs (YOUNGO) at the CMP (Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol) opening plenary, 26th November Thank you Chair, The first commitment period is over and there is nothing but cowardice surrounding the second commitment period. This is a matter of listening to science and preserving planetary health, not...

Doha Deception: Youth intervention to COP opening plenary

Nathan Thanki November 26, 2012 0 Comments
by nathan thanki This afternoon I had the honour of delivering the following statement on behalf of the youth constituency (YOUNGO). A night’s sleep had to be given up, and many ideas, comments, concerns, and demands had to be somehow moulded into a coherent, concise statement. We worked on the assumption that, inshallah, we’d get 2 minutes after all the needless ceremony and...

Loss and Damage from Climate Change-A human rights perspective

greeder November 26, 2012 0 Comments
~graham reeder While climate change negotiations have stagnated over time due to a lack of political will, many are arguing that the diplomatic approach that the UNFCCC has taken to arriving at agreement—one where treaties and agreements are built out of what parties are willing to contribute or concede—does not do justice to the urgency and potency of the issues at hand. Some lawyers...

What do countries think about the Durban Platform for enhanced action?

Nathan Thanki November 23, 2012 0 Comments
by nathan thanki Welcome to the first COP of the rest of your lives. Though Copenhagen will forever remain the most widely observed, undermined, devastated, ruinous UNFCCC meeting, it wasn’t until Durban that the sea change became official. US lead negotiator Todd Stern’s famous “if equity is in, we’re out” sneer epitomised the new paradigm that is being cemented in...

How did we get to Doha

Nathan Thanki November 23, 2012 2 Comments
A brief(ish) history of the UNFCCC and a peek into the future by nathan thanki People ask us “what’s going to come out of Doha” as if these negotiations were disconnected from prior negotiations on climate change. A clue is in the name: it is the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18). In order to know what to expect in Doha, we must therefore see it in context; this requires...