UNfairplay

Levelling the Playing Field – 6th Dec Just a quick update. Our aim is to continually renew and improve this report as we get more information. In the future we aim to add case studies, and want to delve into the numbers and policy detail in more depth which will also help us find solutions [...]

1) Advent Inspirers of the day are …… UNfairplay at COP16 talks in Cancun http://challengedbyhope.blogspot.com/2010/12/unfair-play-think-big.html & 2) ‘But What Can I do?’ UNfair Play launched a report called Levelling the Playing field which wascovered in the Guardian. They are a group of young people who realised how unfair UN negotiations can be… http://blog.climatesquad.org.uk/but-what-can-i-do

  As news rolls in that we’ve been reported on by the World Resources Institute, Climate Justice Network and Tck Tck Tck  the toll of spending all day Saturday confined by the concrete, plastic and glass sterility of UNFCCC negotiations is a little lessened. This morning we had a meeting with Sebastien Duyck, focal point [...]

UNfairplay’s report on the www.RightWingNews.com blog: Poor Countries Whining They Are Excluded From Exotic Cancun Climate Talks (Read WP posts from William Teach) | (Read MT posts from William Teach) | rss “Poor little babies, can’t get in on all the moolah and the awesome buffets” “Well this is pretty typical for the leftist elite: [...]

Levelling the Playing Field           A report to the UNFCCC Secretariat by UNfairplay Contact Charlie Young (c.maxwellyoung@gmail.com) or Samuel Lee Gammage (sleegammage@gmail.com) or the whole UNfairplay team in English, German or French at UNfairplay.fig@gmail.com or +52 (998) 850 1595 Download the full report at: http://unfairplayblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/levelling-the-playing-field-6th-dec.pdf UN Climate negotiations are inherently unfair says report ‘Leveling the Playing [...]

On our Report, ‘Levelling the Playing Field: A Report to the UNFCCC on Negotiating Capacity & Access to Information’: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/cancun-climate-change-summit-unfairplay On UNfairplay: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/cancun-climate-change-summit-zapatistas Articles http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/cancun-climate-change-summit-zapatistas http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/cancun-climate-change-summit-unfairplay http://www.vorwaerts.de/blogs/klimarettung-mit-startschwierigkeiten Good Twitter tweets The Converging World tcktcktck Feed Climate news Earth News World resources institute Blogs and Repostings http://ecosocialismcanada.blogspot.com/2010/12/cancun-climate-change-summit-excludes.html http://friendfeed.com/theguardian/e7455a8a/cancun-climate-change-summit-excludes-poor http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/news-and-updates/ http://www.rtcc.org/2011/html/cctv-blog.html http://planet.globaldiversityfund.net/feeds?display=views-mode-list http://organizedwisdom.com/Environment/tno/med http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:the_guardian665:affc14c3a386639ccc9e74cb217b802c/Cancun-climate-change-summit-excludes-poor-countries-say-activists http://politics.rawsignal.com/?oldArticle=1 http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/t/news/science/topics/environment/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/the_rigged_game_of_climate_talks_20101203/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Truthdig+Truthdig%3A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines [...]

Please know that this is the corrected report. Any previous versions should under no circumstances be quoted or passed on. Levelling The Playing Field Click the above link to download our latest report.

Yesterday was spent tearing around Cancun spreading our report as far and wide for tomorrow’s news. We’ve had great responses so far with a possible article to be published on the Guardian website and the support of 350.org. The full report should be downloadable at the bottom of every page of our blog, so if [...]

ATTENTION PRESS Please note that there has been an error in our figures for delegation numbers used in this report. It is important that you do not publish them despite them having been released today. The delegate list was for COP3 rather than COP16. This is being changed now and the updated edition of the [...]

So it’s been a few days now since we last posted and it’s high time we updated you on some of the goings on.  The UNfairplay team has been hard at work both contacting delegations and writing the Filling Information Gaps report that we will be publishing this week. So far we’ve had success on [...]