climate change impacts

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 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...

Gender and Climate Change – understanding the linkages

Klever Descarpontriez April 2, 2016 0 Comments

by Klever Descarpontriez Climate change threatens to alter the world as we know it. It poses an environmental and social crisis. Climate change affects genders differently, yet not all genders participate equally in coming up with solutions. Institutional sexism at the decision-making process, prevents women from meaningfully engage in negotiations and politics. This exclusion results in...

The Paris Agreement

Aneesa Khan January 19, 2016 0 Comments

guest blog by Daniel Voskoboynik, This Changes Everything UK For all the dispiriting truths I know about the world, inside of me I still carry impulses of hopeful naiveté: that there are no bad intentions but misguided ones, that things are being constantly improved, that there are always saviours somewhere, that all problems find their cures. These intuitions, engraved in me through innocence...