Where does Africa stand in the ‘global climate treaty’?
The plight that most African communities face as a result of the impacts of climate change are insurmountable yet adaptation continues to be downplayed in the negotiations.
Бессмысленно и беспощадно
Снова Россия оказывается в центре внимания на климатических переговорах из-за процедурного вопроса. В этот раз...
¿Qué se dice en la marcha, qué debe aprender la COP?
Ayer fue el día mundial de los derechos humanos, y la COP20 lo celebró marchando por las calles de Lima de la forma más loca posible. La Marcha Mundial en Defensa de la Madre Tierra reunió unas 15.000...
China Youth call for more Ambition
Under the UNFCCC (hereinafter, United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Chang), youth/future generation is one of the civil society constituencies. Also, with other groups as indigenous people and gender,...
The Forest First, Please!
I’m sitting in a session of the Durban Platform which has been tasked with a mega-project to save the world – including, among other things, delivering an agreement to keep temperature rise to less than 2...
The Philippines: From Like-Minded to Climate Vulnerable
Philippine climate change commissioner and head of delegation Lucille Sering spoke in public for the first time in the Lima negotiations yesterday. She was featured in the press conference of the Climate...
Women pushing it so hard in Lima!
Women play a very crucial role in promoting food security and natural resource management yet they have to fight for their space in the climate negotiations
Human Rights, the missing piece?
Currently there are no human rights safeguards in the Clean Development Mechanism
Fossil Fuel Fiends: G20 countries want to have their cake and eat it.
Is it possible to strive for the title of a "climate hero" while at the same time pour millions of dollars into exploring for more fossil fuels?
The tale of Loss and Damage
Once upon a time, back in the nineties, current negotiators were younger, and some of us were not even born. In those times they realised of two things: that climate was unexpectedly changing, and that...