Tag: Negotiations

Latest sign on letter to Ministers on Loss and Damage now includes 45 NGOs and networks from around the world: take a look

greeder December 5, 2012 0 Comments
Cross posted from our Friends and CARE International Dear Minister, The world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and many fragile and precious ecosystems, are already being hit by the devastating impacts of climate change. As a coalition of NGOs and civil society groups representing millions of people who are extremely concerned about our changing climate, we are...

CJN! intervention to the ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
This statement is due to be delivered by Meena Raman from Third World Network, a member of Climate Justice Now! to the ADP plenary. When that plenary happens (it has been postponed several times) we will endeavour to upload a video.  It is astounding that developed countries appear to be engaging in doublespeak here in Doha. At your roundtable discussions, we heard them talk of climate...

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...

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...