Tag: UNFCCC

Contra viento y marea: la primera preCOP social en Venezuela

Maria Escalante July 28, 2014 0 Comments
por Maria Alejandra Escalante  (English version here) El gobierno de Venezuela, criticado por muchos y polémico en el ámbito internacional, se tomó el esfuerzo de hacer algo que no muchos otros gobiernos harían hoy en día: llevar a más de 130 grupos de organizaciones sociales tanto venezolanas como internacionales y a representantes de movimientos sociales a Isla Margarita por una semana...

We Need to Talk About Adaptation

khristian July 27, 2014 0 Comments
by khristian méndez // As the President of Guatemala walked out the room, the First National Congress on Climate Change came to an end. Behind the President, Otto Pérez Molina, came a parade of political figures: the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, the President of the Guatemalan Congress, a German Ambassador, and several other local and political authorities. Of course, they...

Social PreCOP: the youth take the floor and the mesas begin

Nathan Thanki July 17, 2014 0 Comments
by nathan thanki Work at the social preCOP in Venezuela has finally begun on the process to prepare a declarative document reflecting the demands of social movements in relation to climate change and the international process. Following a day of presentations from local governments—including the Mayor of Nantes and the Governor of Caracas—day two, called “Youth Take the Floor” began with...

Cambiando el Sistema, No el Clima: la PreCOP Social de Julio ha comenzado

Nathan Thanki July 16, 2014 0 Comments
texto original por Nathan Thanki, abajo traduccion en  Espanol por Maria Escalante Saludos a todos desde Isla Margarita, el lugar de la primera preCOP social sobre el cambio climático. En los últimos años, hemos venido publicando en este sitio muchos comunicados, informes, polémicas, y lamentos desde los prefabricados y fríos espacios de las negociaciones sobre cambio climático de la ONU....

Changing the System, Not the Climate: July Social PreCOP begins

Nathan Thanki July 15, 2014 0 Comments
by nathan thanki Greetings from Las Islas Margaritas, the site of the first ever social preCOP on climate change. Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations. We have watched and written as the process to negotiate a new global climate treaty (or whatever) was...