Maria Escalante

Youth`s almost intervention at the first day of SBSTA

Maria Escalante December 2, 2014 0 Comments

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 to speak at the opening and closing of negotiations. This time, however, the chair did not even leave enough time for the intervention to be read. We are posting it here as we consider the messages...

ADP: the biggest fight at COP20 Lima

Maria Escalante November 30, 2014 0 Comments

by Klever Descarpontriez & Maria Alejandra Escalante(and many friends) Climate change impacts show no patience with the slow pace of progress at the intergovernmental negotiations and the very limited amount of actions being taken to halt global warming. We are already facing the impacts: sea level rise has displaced island communities in Bangladesh, droughts have decreased yields by 50% in...

[earth] Along Civil Society Organizations Reject the Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture

Maria Escalante September 23, 2014 0 Comments

CORPORATE-SMART GREENWASH: WHY WE REJECT THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE SEPTEMBER 2014 We, the undersigned civil society organisations, hereby manifest our rejection of the proposed Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture to be launched at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Leaders' Summit. This proposed alliance is a deceptive and deeply contradictory initiative....

Against all odds: first social preCOP in Venezuela

Maria Escalante July 28, 2014 0 Comments

by Maria Alejandra Escalante (Spanish version here) Venezuela's government, controversial and criticized by many in the international arena, made the effort to do something that not many other governments would do today: invite more than 130 groups both of Venezuelan and international social organizations and representatives of social movements to Margarita Island for a week (full list of...

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...