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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...

[Earth] intervention at the SBI closing session

Klever Descarpontriez December 10, 2014 0 Comments

On December 5, Maria Escalante of delivered the SBI closing session intervention for Climate Justice Now! On a day where UNEP has confirmed that the cost of adaptation is continuing to rise, and could become $500 billion per year or much higher by 2050, we have to register our deep disappointment and anger at the paltry sums thus far offered by the rich countries. You have money for wars and...

Kate Dooley Interview

Omer Shamir December 8, 2014 0 Comments

On Dec. 6 during the Global Landscape Forum (a side event happening in parallel with the COP) Kate Dooley, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne and an expert in carbon markets, carbon trading and forests and land-use, was part of a panel discussing “A rights-based approach to comprehensive land use planning”. Proceeding the talk, Kate was kind enough to give some of her time to make...

Video Blog: Youth briefing with Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

mcalderon October 11, 2012 0 Comments

by Mariana Calderon This morning, GYBN was able to meet with CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias: **Note -- two self-corrections, as I wasn't able to re-record: 1) Obviously, I'm reporting on COP 11, not 10; 2) The existing voluntary fund is for ILCs -- Indigenous and Local Communities, not LDCs. Video Blog: Youth meeting with CBD Executive Secretary,...

Youth Statement on Stakeholder Engagement

mcalderon October 10, 2012 0 Comments

by Mariana Calderon During the opening ceremonies of the COP, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network was scheduled to deliver a youth intervention, but, like many other observers, we were pushed so far down the schedule by lengthy State speeches that our moment to speak never came. So, we decided to create our own opportunity. I spent much of today drafting a statement on item 5.4, Engagement of...