Climate Negotiations

A Long Term Goal in the Paris Agreement: A Failure Without Differentiation & Equity

Paige Nygaard December 10, 2015 0 Comments

By Paige Nygaard We are getting closer and closer to the end of COP21. Anticipation is growing to seeing what disaster will unfold within the text. Will it be slightly bad? Absolutely terrible? How much will the United States be able to shift the burden of climate change to other countries while also blaming them for any bad deal in Paris? As every draft text gets released, it favors the...

You Take Her Land – a Reflection on Gender, Agriculture and False Solutions

Aneesa Khan December 9, 2015 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan What does it mean to be a person on the frontlines of a microcosm whose climate is undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis for the worst? It often means a loss of home, land, identity, security, and human rights. But, what does it mean if this person also never truly owned the land they worked on or the home they lived in, what if their identity was continuously oppressed, what if...

Is the South still possible?

guest December 8, 2015 0 Comments

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 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under this climate talks a new international agreement on climate change will be signed, and it will define the political efforts...

The Youth Complex at COP21

Jenna Farineau December 7, 2015 1 Comment

By: Sara Velander and Jenna Farineau Each day at the Conference of Parties, a certain theme is chosen to frame the day’s events and actions, and this past Wednesday, December 4, bore the theme “Young and Future Generations.” Young people were running around expressing their cheery nature, while adults stood in front of them making speeches and while camera-men followed just behind to make...

When our hearts are in the Earth

Kendall Cook December 3, 2015 0 Comments

By Kendall Cook After traveling thirty hours, from visiting family in Mexico to landing in France, I convene with environmental activists whose homes are dispersed throughout the globe. Homes that are keeping the remaining parts of their hearts safe for them, as they separate momentarily from the soil that raised them, to protect that same mother that birthed them. Here, I will spend two weeks...