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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...

Climate of Conscience

Aneesa Khan August 17, 2015 0 Comments

Re-posted from Medium, written by the Tipping Point Collective As climate justice activists, we know that our movement is deeply connected with others such as those for gender, race, and migration (to name a few). But how do we, in our fight for the climate, show solidarity with these movements and adapt our narrative so that we are allies in their fights for system change? Check out this...

Day 2 of Post-2015: Presentations and Interactive Debate Afternoon Session

Jenna Farineau March 25, 2015 0 Comments

The afternoon session at yesterday's negotiations was set aside for a very productive and important dialogue. We heard from member states about their experiences regarding their approaches and challenges with implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. Four countries - the Netherlands, Myanmar, Colombia and Togo - all had presentations prepared for the General Assembly and after those...

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...