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Getting a movement going

greeder December 9, 2011 1 Comment
by Graham Reeder So after two weeks of singing and dancing in designated, coordinated, preapproved, action spaces, the official youth constituency just made their first risky move at this COP. Anjali delivered a powerful high-level plenary intervention about how the youth are being failed and how developed countries are to blame for delay on ambitious climate action, and the youth followed it up...

Ministers begin their work

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments
 by Samuli Sinisalo The ministerial Indaba-consultations about the Durban outcome begin tonight. In front of them, the ministers have five options for the possible outcome. No decision is not amongst them at this level. The first option is to implement a new legal instrument under article 17 of the convention. This would mean that the contents of the new instrument can be anything - made up in...

Global hegemons push through a well-disguised Trojan Horse

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments
Ignoring all evidence that an agriculture work programme under SBSTA is a bad idea,  I'd automatically be wary of anything that the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are pushing this hard, especially if it's 'for the sake of' developing countries.   Cartoon designed by a friend of Teresa Anderson, a woman we're working with here in Durban.

Options for the Outcome

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by Samuli Sinisalo The last 48 hours of Durban are at hand. Decisions are going to be made, one way or another. On the future mandate, the LCA working group on legal options for the outcome, came up with a conference room paper yesterday. That paper specified four options for the LCA outcome from Durban. And as we well know, most Kyoto proposals are conditional on what comes out from the LCA....

African Anger at European Calls for A ‘New Mandate’

Youth Civil Society December 8, 2011 0 Comments
If you wish to add your organization's name please send an email to: greeder@coa.edu ASAP Civil society groups attack ‘Durban Mandate’ proposal as a ‘great escape’ DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Today – Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks...