Last night was UNfairplay’s first ever side event! Side event = boring, dry, uninspiring? Not necessarily, I know I have been surprised at how engaging issues of participation have been for those involved in UNfairplay, and to those who we try to convey our findings too. Our aim was to draw attention to the report [...]
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A slice of the broader narrow picture
June 17, 2011
The key policy issues here at Bonn 2011
June 10, 2011
Just to give you a quick update on what the main issues at stake are here in Bonn, the UN climate talks 2011. 1. The extension of the Kyoto Protocol to a second commitment period after 2012. Developing countries (LDC’s, AOSIS etc) are definitely in favour of a second commitment period, as they see the [...]
Support for Climate Change Adaptation Core of First World Bank Strategy for Kiribati
March 22, 2011
Good new for Kiribati’s much needed climate adaptation plans! In the final hours of negotiations – a bit more about what’s at stake for Kiribati Kiribati: we will be the first to go Kiribati – a call to the world “Washington, DC, March 1, 2011 – The World Bank Board today approved the first Country Assistance Strategy for [...]
OneClimate.net interview
December 9, 2010
If reading’s not your thing here’s a multi-sensual update on what we’ve done, are doing and will do. With hope.
“Leave the atom alone.” E. Y. Harburg
December 9, 2010
For days now I’ve been following the discussions on the Kyoto Protocol. I sat writing down often repetitive and technical discussions on, among other things, the gases that should and shouldn’t be included in the protocol; on what mathematical concept should be used in the transfer of excess from one commitment period to the other [...]
Visualisation of the delegation sizes
December 8, 2010
A technical one for you today: Worldmapper.org has kindly produced a map based on the data of our report. It shows the number of delegates per country that are represented here in Cancún, as stated in the provisional list of participants published by the UNFCCC on the 30/11/10 (available from the UNFCCC website). Some [...]
Guest Post: 1.5C to stay alive – perspectives from Pacific youth.
December 8, 2010
Kindly posted by Luana Bosanquet-Heays from Project Survival Pacific – http://youthprojectsurvival.org Kia Orana/Hola from sunny Cancun. A wee update on what’s happening here at COP16. It has become apparent that larger, developed nations are not supporting a push for 1.5 degrees which is why we are seeing a growth in regional blocks of developing nations. [...]
