Connie Hedegaard

No surprise, Connie: Doha was a failure

Nathan Thanki January 5, 2013 0 Comments

This is a response to European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard’s article entitled "Why the Doha climate conference was a success." It is soon to be available on New York Times dotearth blog. By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki Connie Hedegaard doesn’t respond to our tweets. She ignores us in the halls of UN climate talks. So when we read her in the...

Youth Statement: Doha failed to deliver

greeder December 16, 2012 0 Comments

In light of a recent Guardian article by EU representative Connie Hedegaard and other media attention trying to dress up the catastrophic Doha outcome as a success, young people around the world issued the following statement to clear up the Doha Delusion: Youth Statement As COP18 came to a close last week, we were left with what can only be described as colossal betrayal and abandonment of the...

Urgent Letter to Connie Hedegaard from European Youth

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments

cross posted from pusheurope.eu Dear Commissioner Hedegaard, We, European youth and civil society, are writing to you in these critical final hours of the UN climate talks in Doha to demand that the EU acts now and changes its position at the UNFCCC. We have witnessed over the past two weeks the EU’s consistent refusal to live up to its responsibilities, and we condemn...