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The WHAT after Paris?

Aura Silva Martinez December 16, 2015 0 Comments

By Aura Silva Martinez There were over 160 people sitting in layers around a big, wide circle at the Climate Coalition 21 assembly. An ongoing wave of comments, questions and answers was being thrown to a multitude of unresponsive chairs. This was an overwhelming experience for me, and despite being a somewhat inefficient space where having a real, meaningful conversation was significantly...

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

Makiko Yoshida December 16, 2015 0 Comments

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 (UNFCCC) on December 12th. There are many reasons why many of us do not think that this agreement is sufficient to what the world needs despite what many media outlets have been reporting. Following the...

A Message Home to the US: What Actually Happened at COP21

Morgan Heckerd December 12, 2015 0 Comments

by Morgan Heckerd Over the past two weeks 196 governments have spent hours within consultation rooms and plenary halls in efforts of reaching an agreement. They are here in Paris because they know that the era of emissions need to come to an end. The urgency of climate change is no longer a concept that they can deny. But– the developed countries have fallen short in adopting the...

[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....

A Letter to Powershift Atlantic

Nathan Thanki March 21, 2014 0 Comments

Hello Powershift Atlantic! We’re so excited to be making the eight hour drive from Maine next week. It will be our pleasure and privilege to meet all you amazing people, from young activists driving the College Divestment campaign, to Mi’kmaq warriors bravely resisting fracking in the face of state violence, and everyone in between. We want you to know you have our support and utmost respect....