julian velez

Urgent Letter to Connie Hedegaard from European Youth

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments

cross posted from pusheurope.eu Dear Commissioner Hedegaard, We, European youth and civil society, are writing to you in these critical final hours of the UN climate talks in Doha to demand that the EU acts now and changes its position at the UNFCCC. We have witnessed over the past two weeks the EU’s consistent refusal to live up to its responsibilities, and we condemn...

From Crevice to Chasm

jvelez December 6, 2012 0 Comments

By Julian Velez Developed countries are trying to undermine the relevance of the Bali Road Map as a whole, as well as the Durban Package laid out last year. These include a 2nd commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), and comparable mitigation actions by developed countries for non-KP parties under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and Nationally Appropriate...

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...

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...

Sustainable Development And The Political Treadmill Of No Will

jvelez July 2, 2012 0 Comments

By Julian Velez Rio+20 was supposed to renew political commitment to Sustainable Development (SD) and poverty eradication by integrating the social, economic and environmental “pillars,” or dimensions. It was a conference that was supposed to build on previous agreements to bring the Sustainable Development agenda to the next step. But the spotlight of the conference was taken by the...