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Civil Society Demanding Urgent Action to Ensure Protection and Justice for Climate Migrants under the UNFCCC

Andrea Fontana November 12, 2016 0 Comments

by Andrea Fontana On Thursday November 10th, civil society mobilized with a series of events to ask for legal protection and immediate action for climate migrants. The call to action was sparked from the fact that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate change....

The Day Donald Trump Got Elected

Rachael Goldberg November 11, 2016 1 Comment

by Rachael Goldberg Waking up, I was expecting this whole election mess to be over. Hillary Clinton was going to be president and while there would be a lot of work to do, at least the fact that I am a woman would mean celebration and not an 1850s sense of fear. When I walked into the kitchen and saw the faces of the people eating breakfast, I felt less certain. They told me that Donald...

The Struggle is Real – What’s at Stake with COP22

Aneesa Khan November 8, 2016 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan It has been almost an entire year since parties to the UNFCCC gathered in the home of fine fromage and disastrous climate deals. The 31-page Paris Agreement came into existence through its adoption on December 12th, 2015 and its birth was met with thunderous applause and tears of joy from rich countries and the French Presidency of COP21. On the frontlines of climate change and...

A COP of Action?

Margherita Tommasini November 7, 2016 0 Comments

By Laura Berry & Margherita Tommasini “As we open COP 22, 100 parties have ratified the Paris Agreement. All together, we have made possible what they said it was impossible and we have done it with determination, we never gave up, this is a historic moment” ~Ségolène Royal, President of COP21 The official Opening Ceremony and first plenary session of the COP 22 climate negotiations in...

The disaster of hurricane Matthew in Haiti – a consequence of climate change

Sara Lowgren October 12, 2016 0 Comments

by Sara Löwgren Once again a poor country which has contributed insignificantly to climate change has been hit catastrophically by its consequences. As our climate continues to change as a result of our irresponsible actions vulnerable countries continue to suffer from the impacts. On October 4th hurricane Matthew hit the west coast of Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries. Although it...