Tag: climate action

Canadian Youth Ejected From COP17

Crossposts December 7, 2011 0 Comments
cross posted from http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/press-release-youth-turn-their-backs-on-canadian-government-during-opening-speech/  Members of the Canadian Youth Delegation were ejected from COP17 today as Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered his opening address at the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. Just as Kent began his...

What’s health got to do with it?

greeder December 6, 2011 0 Comments
by Graham Reeder So how are climate change and health connected anyway? I don’t know about you, but the first thing that comes to mind when I used to think about climate change is arctic sea ice and major industry polluting. As I’ve developed a stronger interest in public health issues over the last couple of years, the human ecologist in me has driven me to make connections between climate...

Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights – Not as Scary as it Sounds

Anjali Appadurai December 1, 2011 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai The climate regime is huge, transboundary, multidimensional. The UNFCCC, being the only body facilitating multilateral negotiations on climate change, is made up of a maze of different issues and tracks. The fundamental premise of the climate debate is that developed and developing countries are responsible to different extents for the current level of global emissions, but...

Voices Suppressed become Shouts Heard as Youth are Detained at Moon Palace

mcalderon December 10, 2010 3 Comments
-Mariana, Tara, and Ayla "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!" It's the last official night of negotiations, and within their meeting rooms at the Moon Palace, negotiators argue and debate about what should come from Cancun. What is missing, however, is an important voice - that of civil society, impacted just as much as negotiators by climate change. That voice has been tentatively, then more...

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

COA Admin December 7, 2010 0 Comments
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 we were going the wrong way even though Moises insisted that he knew where we were going. In...