Author Carlie Labaria

So this is what 800-strong storming out of an international conference looks like. "We are walking out in frustration and disappointment - at the talks here in Poland rich industrialised countries have done...

Welcome to the 19th Annual Climate Games! This should have been my first post when COP19 opened last week, but I had neither an awesome picture of the Warsaw stadium nor this frustration that is looming...

My hometown (earlier struck by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake) was fortunately spared from the worst during the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan but our power supply has been cut off. News from our Department of Energy...

In between refreshing my Facebook to see how the relief operations are going on back home and seeing if friends have finally found their loved ones alive or in the rubbles, I've been reflecting about the state...

- co-authored by Edna Odhiambo- This is a simple thank you note to the nations who have extended humanitarian assistance to the Philippines and other affected countries. No amount has been too much or too...

Minister Korolec receiving a lovely present from NGO community at today's COP19 Presidency meeting: COALAND PROUD CITIZEN T-shirt! At an earlier observers meeting with the COP19...

My fellow tracker Olga from Ukraine wrote about the '9 ways to get crazy at UN climate negotiations' and it simply made my day. #9 reminded me of what's keeping me and many of the people here: "Believe with...

At the Second Meeting of the Structured Dialogue expert dialogue (SED 2) last Wednesday (November 13), the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) reported on the status of the Finance for Mitigation, Adaptation,...

COP19 has become about two things – about Coaland Poland and the Philippine disaster caused by the ‘climate nightmare’ that was superstorm Haiyan. Yeb Saño’s speech at the opening plenary on Monday...

Smooth, Polish government, very smooth. A show of sincere solidarity, indeed. “climate changes are natural phenomena, which occured (sic) many times on Earth”. This is just one out of a long list of...