“Trust Your Mexican” – Reflections on Mexico as Host of COP16

by Anjali Appadurai The other day our delegation went to Puerto Morelos to meet with Doreen. Moises had the address and was leading us. We were unfamiliar with the area but we knew that her house number was #806. However, the street we were walking on had numbers starting at #10. We were convinced that […]

Finishing Off the Business in Durban – Developing Country Perspectives

by Anjali Appadurai It was my good fortune to be invited to a high-level cocktail party by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Friday night. Pavan Sukhdev, head of the initiative, was speaking on the negative effects of meat production on our food systems, but his speech was almost drowned out […]

Class of 2013

<- Back to Alumni  Anjali Appadurai / Anjali’s blogs Lisa Bjerke / Lisa’s blogs Mariana Calderon / Mariana’s blogs Moises Flores Baca / Moises’s blogs Jane Nurse / Jane’s blogs Graham Reeder / Graham’s blogs Trudi Zundel / Trudi’s blogs **************************** Graham Reeder back to top What are you up to now? I’m currently on a Watson Fellowship, looking at how […]

10 things that are wrong with this approach to “equity”

Ever since our own Anjali Appadurai stood before world leaders at the 2011 Durban climate talks to demand “equity now,” echoing a longstanding demand of climate justice movements across the world, there has been an increasing use of the word in discussions on international climate change policy. The idea of equity is contested, as everyone […]

Social PreCOP: the youth take the floor and the mesas begin

by nathan thanki Work at the social preCOP in Venezuela has finally begun on the process to prepare a declarative document reflecting the demands of social movements in relation to climate change and the international process. Following a day of presentations from local governments—including the Mayor of Nantes and the Governor of Caracas—day two, called […]