loss and damage

When our hearts are in the Earth

Kendall Cook December 3, 2015 0 Comments

By Kendall Cook After traveling thirty hours, from visiting family in Mexico to landing in France, I convene with environmental activists whose homes are dispersed throughout the globe. Homes that are keeping the remaining parts of their hearts safe for them, as they separate momentarily from the soil that raised them, to protect that same mother that birthed them. Here, I will spend two weeks...

Food Justice: What’s at Stake in Paris?

guest October 4, 2015 0 Comments

guest blog by Doreen Stabinsky, Professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic. Five key fights at the UNFCCC: The build-up to the December Paris climate summit is focusing world attention on the issue of climate change. In the process, there is significant opportunity to raise and highlight justice issues that lie at the intersection of climate change and food – for...

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...

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...

10 things that are wrong with this approach to “equity”

COA Admin September 4, 2014 2 Comments

Ever since our own Anjali Appadurai stood before world leaders at the 2011 Durban climate talks to demand “equity now,” echoing a longstanding demand of climate justice movements across the world, there has been an increasing use of the word in discussions on international climate change policy. The idea of equity is contested, as everyone from social movement leaders to former Heads of State...