Tag: carbon markets

No justice in Lima Outcome

Adrian December 16, 2014 1 Comment
Declaración de los grupos miembros de Justicia Climática que participaron en la COP, emitido la ultima noche de las negociaciones en rechazo al resultado de Lima. Versión en español disponible en la segunda parte de este blog.  No Justice in Lima Outcome (English) This is the statement prepared by CJ groups inside COP20 and published the last night of negotiations in rejection to the outcome...

Al Gore, in the bag !

Omer Shamir December 12, 2014 3 Comments
It is Thursday of the second and last week at the climate negotiation in Lima. As always after a quick and minimalist breakfast in our hostel I walk the three blocks down to arrive to one of the special shuttle-bus stands, at which some of the ten thousand conference participants take the daily route to arrive at the conference's convergence space. On the bus, right before putting on my...

Will the global climate talks address the challenges for agriculture?

Sara Velander December 11, 2014 0 Comments
Originally posted on December 8, 2014, in the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Think Forward blog. The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), a body under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), started on Monday, at the General Army Headquarters in Lima, Peru. With almost 30 tents set up across the premises, and thousands of representatives...

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...

Listening to their voices! The People’s Summit

Michelle Pazmino December 6, 2014 0 Comments
Some political powers in the COP negotiations tend to ignore the demands of civil society, the people, el pueblo, and their rights regarding the impacts of climate change. The Cumbre de los Pueblos, (in English People’s Summit) is a space in which these marginalized groups, that tend to be the most susceptible to climate change’s impacts, are brought together to voice their struggles....