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Youth`s almost intervention at the first day of SBSTA

Yesterday, Aneesa Khan was going to speak on behalf of the youth constituency at the opening of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). The youth is given only two minutes...

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Listening to their voices! The People’s Summit

Some political powers in the COP negotiations tend to ignore the demands of civil society, the people, el pueblo, and their rights regarding the impacts of climate change. The Cumbre de los Pueblos,...

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[Earth] intervention at the SBI closing session

On December 5, Maria Escalante of [Earth] delivered the SBI closing session intervention for Climate Justice Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdofYWXumxw&feature=youtu.be On a day where UNEP...

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Will the global climate talks address the challenges for agriculture?

Originally posted on December 8, 2014, in the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Think Forward blog. The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), a body under the United Nations...

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Day 2 of Post-2015: Presentations and Interactive Debate Afternoon Session

The afternoon session at yesterday’s negotiations was set aside for a very productive and important dialogue. We heard from member states about their experiences regarding their approaches and...

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Climate of Conscience

Re-posted from Medium, written by the Tipping Point Collective As climate justice activists, we know that our movement is deeply connected with others such as those for gender, race, and migration (to...

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Food Justice: What’s at Stake in Paris?

guest blog by Doreen Stabinsky, Professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic. Five key fights at the UNFCCC: The build-up to the December Paris climate summit is focusing world...

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Watching Bonn from Bar Harbor, ME

A guest blog by Morgan Heckerd, a student at the College of the Atlantic   Monday October 19, 2015 in Bonn, Germany was the first day of meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for...

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What was it like being an observer for one day at the UN?

by Angela Valenzuela.   What was it like being an observer for a day in the last preparatory meeting for Paris COP21? Here there is a poem that I wrote after the last ADP session (Ad-hoc working group...

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Opening Plenary for the Paris Agreement – False Promises on Transparency and...

by Sergio Cahueque and Sara Velander The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) opening session took place on Sunday, November 29th at 5 PM, starting with a minute of...

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#KeepUsInTheRoom

Day one of the Climate negotiations. As the eyes of the world and the media were paying close attention to what the Heads of State had to say in their interventions at the United Nations Framework...

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Action by 2015!

By Kimberly Lopez Castellanos “0 by 2050!” no “0 by 2030!” Arguments and discussions on some political messages have arisen within the youth constituency. In drafting an intervention on the Long Term...

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High Level Segment Intervention

Tuesday, 8 December 2015. Today the high-level segment continued hearing statements from ministers and other heads of delegations in joint meetings of the COP and CMP. The high-level segment concluded...

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Is the South still possible?

By Angela Valenzuela and Augustin Martz (Agua Libre)   While France expands its military strategy in Syria, it is also hosting more than 190 nations in Paris at the climate conference COP21, under the...

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The Need for Women and Gender Equality in the Text

By Kimberly Lopez Castellanos Men are predominantly seen as the “head of the household,” right? So wouldn’t a lot of the burden of keeping up with the household fall on them? If this is true, why is it...

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Climate Chaos and the Externalities of Americanism

“The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period.”   ~Pres. George W. Bush “To accept your rewriting of the Convention is to accept the destruction of our societies.”       ~The delegation...

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Oil, Gas and Coal, Back Up, Back Up!

by Makiko Yoshida What the Paris Agreement has Failed to Achieve After four years of negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

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The Paris Agreement, what’s next for climate change leadership – a report...

By Klever Descarpontriez Today the Earth in Brackets and Uppsala delegation jointly held a two hour long session in a fairly well-attended auditorium to debrief the rest of the Uppsala University on...

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How the Paris Agreement FCCC’ed Us Over

by Aneesa Khan To be in a room for seven whole hours is arduous in itself. However, for that room to be one filled with painfully complacent idiots, the overpowering smell of corporate power, and...

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The end of the beginning – 21 years of an unjust process

By Klever Descarpontriez and Aneesa Khan Last Sunday the 13th of December the news of a new ‘historic’, ‘landmark’, ‘once in a century’ international climate agreement infested the front page of all...

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