Category: COP17

The Last Night in Durban

COA Admin December 9, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo A lot has happened today, I hope. Everything that is going on takes place behind closed doors, so we have no way of accurately reporting it the play by play. The ministerial Inbada started just few minutes ago, and that will hopefully bring some clarity to the situation. So far there are two draft texts presented by the COP presidency, to conclude the work in Durban. Text from...

Mic check. Mic check. Youth intervention (English and Spanish version of the speech)

Youth Civil Society December 9, 2011 6 Comments
This morning Anjali gave the intervention to the high-level segment COP plenary on behalf of youth. Standing on the podium, and looming large on the screen, she launched right in. I speak for more than half the world's population. We are the silent majority. You've given us a seat in this hall, but our interests are not on the table. What does it take to get a stake in this game?...

Getting a movement going

greeder December 9, 2011 1 Comment
by Graham Reeder So after two weeks of singing and dancing in designated, coordinated, preapproved, action spaces, the official youth constituency just made their first risky move at this COP. Anjali delivered a powerful high-level plenary intervention about how the youth are being failed and how developed countries are to blame for delay on ambitious climate action, and the youth followed it up...

“Not just a fund-a JUST climate fund”

Nathan Thanki December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki Before we get the official say on what the green climate fund should look like, let's just remind ourselves what a really just GCF would look like. As one member of the YOUNGO finance working group said today "we don't want just another climate fund, we want a just climate fund." So what is a just climate fund? First and foremost, a just fund must be a transparent fund that...

What happened to the hope of a green climate fund?

Nathan Thanki December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki In our pre-COP speculations, everyone thought that the GCF would be one of the key issues and (possibly) outcomes of Durban. The promise--of a new, large, additional, transparent fund that would be driven by the countries that received the money and guaranteed adaptation funding--was great, a light at the end of the dark tunnel through which parts of the regime, like the...