Anjali Appadurai

DUMPED: Japan’s fling with climate finally ends, three years after giving up custody of lovechild Kyoto

Anjali Appadurai November 16, 2013 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai It was a move that had been expected with dread: on Friday morning Tokyo time, the Japanese government announced its new greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020. The numbers are grim. Japan will cut emissions by 3.8 per cent from its 2005 level by 2020; this translates to an increase of 3.1 per cent from its 1990 levels. The government had been reviewing its international...

Bad Boy Scout: The Importance of Process and Good-Faith Negotiations

Anjali Appadurai December 17, 2012 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai Sometimes I get frustrated with all the "procedural crap" that seems to govern any group process. has found it onerous to sit in YOUNGO meetings where process seems to be treated not as a means to an end, but rather as the end itself. Endless hand signals, protocols, rules, processes, tokenization of cultural and gender representation, and over-sensitivity can...

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...

Big Picture Overview: State of Play

Anjali Appadurai December 3, 2012 0 Comments

By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki This is our analysis -- informed by various actual experts -- of what is currently happening in these negotiations from a birds-eye view. Look at it as a stock-taking of sorts. (Please comment if we use too much jargon.) Overview We are headed towards a 6-degree warming world. We all know the impacts of this. What needs to happen is very serious emissions...

Human Rights and Equity: COP Intervention for CJN

Anjali Appadurai November 28, 2012 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai This tiny intervention (only 30 seconds permitted - an outrage in itself) was delivered by Anjali in the opening plenary of the COP. Nathan and Anjali collaborated on their interventions so as to have consistent, strong messaging between the two. This statement was delivered on behalf of Climate Justice Now!, a network of justice-focused organisations and movements across the...