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At the Youth Blast, I bumped into Louise who explained through a video interview what the concept of Ecocide actually is.

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This is an edited version of an article published in Australia’s ABC online.
There is no doubt that the road…

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Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC gave a Press Briefing to the journalist attending the Carbon Expo in Barcelona today. She addressed the status of UN climate negotiations just days before formal negotiations resume in Bonn early next week.

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In exactly one year’s time, world leaders will converge on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the UN conference on sustainable development, 20 years after the first “Earth Summit” was held there in 1992. Will this turn out to be another “Copenhagen moment” for the climate movement?

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Originally published on the Huffington Post
Most of the commentary on the May 21st ‘Rapture Fail’ consisted of gleeful mockery,…

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After short delays and slow progress on day one, day two closed with members of the Committee establishing workstreams and a general working arrangement to deliver their mandate - designing the details of the new climate fund - to the Conference of Parties (COP) in Durban later this year.

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Forty members of what’s called the ‘Transitional Committee’ on the formation of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) met today in Mexico city.

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The intersessional in Bangkok 3-8 April 2011 was the first time governments convened after the Cancun climate talks for some…

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DEC 21, 2012
People have pondered.
Philosophers have proposed.
Mayans have calculated.
Nostradamus has prophesied.
NASA found- solar flares are…

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On day 2 of formal negotiations, the Adopt a Negotiator crew gave their summary of their experience thus far as…

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Our three ‘negotiator trackers’ on the ground in Bangkok - China, India & Indonesia - invite us into a conversation…

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There are lot of well intentioned skeptics about this process. There are the doom-sayers who think our lack of…

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