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Fuel before food: The U.S. position on biofuels

FAO Delegation October 8, 2013 1 Comment

By Stevie DuFrense, Becca Haydu, and Cara Weber The issue of biofuels and their impacts on world food security is a contested topic here at CFS 40 in Rome. The text is up for negotiation as civil society works to influence the voting member governments of the CFS. Students from the United States, Becca, Cara and Stevie, have been following U.S. biofuels policy and its impacts on world food...

Green economy: the square ball that negotiators struggle to roll

Adrian May 3, 2012 0 Comments

by Adrian Fernandez Jauregui There is frustration and irritation revisiting, once more, the hallways and negotiating rooms of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Despite the commonly used rhetoric about “moving forward” and “streamlining the text", progress is slow and the outcome is uncertain. In Working Group I negotiations (section three and five of the zero draft), the...

The United States’ Unique Situations with Education, Loans, and Rio +20

Bohdan Zymka March 20, 2012 0 Comments

By Bogdan Zymka In the United States, there seems to be some hope of economic recovery looming as unemployment slowly falls and the election cycle brings about at least some sort of national discussion about critical issues. However, Rio is still far from making headlines in mainstream media in the United States and by the time it makes it there, it might be too late to discuss the elephant the...

Global hegemons push through a well-disguised Trojan Horse

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments

Ignoring all evidence that an agriculture work programme under SBSTA is a bad idea, I'd automatically be wary of anything that the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are pushing this hard, especially if it's 'for the sake of' developing countries. Cartoon designed by a friend of Teresa Anderson, a woman we're working with here in Durban.

Who Are These Guys Anyway?

Joe Perullo December 6, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo I decided to do some investigating on who exactly the country delegates were. Who hires them? Who are they really representing? What do they do outside of the UNFCCC? When we say the US is stalling progress and shoving responsibility onto developing countries, who exactly do we mean? A lot of fingers are pointed at the delegates, but they're just people, right? The US was my...