Tag: COP18

YOUNGO intervention to ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
The below statement was planned to be delivered by Fadi el Masry of the International Federation of Liberal Youth on behalf of Youth groups and delivered to the informal plenary of the Ad-Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). That plenary has been postponed for several days in a row - when or if it happens we will try to post the video, but for now here is...

Tuesday’s Child

Nathan Thanki December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki and Bogdan Zymka (as part of our effort to be a resource to Youth groups, the following was sent to UNFCCC youth on Tuesday night) The opening of the high level plenary began today. Nothing really dramatic yet--apart from the ridiculous opening ceremony which actually included an interview that said "one must not be ashamed of doing something unspectacular or with low...

Monday’s Child

tzundel December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel as part of our attempt to keep people up to speed, this note was sent to YOUNGO on Monday Night. It is by no means complete, and we do not claim to be "objective" (whatever that is) LCA There was a huge fight in LCA today over a new Chairs text; the text  had blank pages under finance, adaptation, technology transfer, capacity building, and response measures. A...

Once Upon a Time in the West [South]

Anjali Appadurai December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai All was quiet on the desert front. Party delegates prepared quietly for the meeting of the Long-Term Cooperative Action (LCA) working group, for which they had been presented with a recent text drafted by the Chair. In the calm before the storm, many of us wondered if the G77+China, a group of the majority of the world's developing countries, would be able to hold a united...

New Promises Old Challenges

jvelez December 3, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez Here we are once more in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, trying to understand the political games that happen in this space. Climate change is what it all boils down; it is the spearhead of effects that the globalized capitalist path to development has created. Climate change is the result of excessive and wasteful lifestyles that are present mostly in...