In the final hours of negotiations – a bit more about what’s at stake for Kiribati
December 17, 2009
Waiting waiting …
December 17, 2009
Today we are sat with David, the lawyer from the Kiritbati delegation watching the presidential addresses. Each head of state gets up on stage and delivers some carefully chosen words. Endlessly they take the stage and talk about cooperation and fighting climate change together. And while they talk the real negotiating hasn’t even started. We [...]
Kiribati: we will be the first to go
December 15, 2009
The good, the bad and the grazers
December 13, 2009
The good… Today we’ve been busy attending, taking notes and summarising the main plenary sessions for Kiribati. The talks have been tense and amongst the inhuman UN language there have been tears and anger from the official negotiators. We witnessed the spokesperson from Tuvalu break down as he spoke in utter desperation to save his [...]
Kiribati – a call to the world
December 12, 2009
So we’ve told you a lot about the work we’ve been doing for Kiribati, and a lot about the negotiations in Copenhagen. But not very much about Kiribati it’s self. To give you sense a of the country we are working for, and how they are threatened by climate change, here is short video about [...]
Drowning in the flood of information flying out of Copenhagen? We’re here to help
December 11, 2009
You may be following the whirlwind of stories in the press that is engulfing Copenhagen. Unless you’re superhuman you’re probably confused, as are many delegates here. For a country that can’t send many negotiators, keeping up with the endless simultaneous meetings, working groups and documents becomes an impossible task. Kiribati, the island state we are [...]
Made for television? Let’s hope not
December 8, 2009
Yesterday we sat on a sofa with Tererei, the head of delegation for Kiribati – a small island state in the Pacific and watched the opening addresses of the negotiations. We were meeting Tererei to talk about what we could do for her delegation during the negotiations – how our team at UNfairPlay could go [...]
