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 [...]
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 [...]
A quick fix?
December 11, 2009
Yesterday, we (Isabel and Jess – the two lawyers of the group) sat in on a side event entitled ‘Recognising and protecting human rights within the Copenhagen agreement’. As the talk unfolded, it hit us just how significant this issue is. It is so obvious, yet seems to somehow have eluded the general concerns surrounding [...]
