Ban Ki Moon at the UN Climate Talks in Lima | photo credit: iisd/Kiara Worth This Lima meeting is getting exciting! UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon helped kick off the High Level segment of the current...
TREE ALERT: Australia isolated as G20 meeting becomes ‘defacto climate change summit’
Australia’s attempts to keep climate change off the G20 agenda have proven futile and isolated the country like “a shag on a rock”, with world leaders ensuring climate change was front and centre...
Ban Ki-moon: Now is the time to act on climate change
After a 24 hour delay, delegates from more than 194 nations finally reached an agreement on a package of decisions dubbed the Durban Climate Gateway, thereby extending the Kyoto Protocol (KP), in Doha,...
Yesterday Friday 7th of December 2012 was supposed to have been the closing day of COP18. It’s 5:02pm on Saturday, and the COP session to approve the final outcome has still not commenced. In a brief...
Traditionally, within the realms of policy-making in the UN, climate change and food security have travelled on different trajectories; the former taking centre stage at dedicated Conference of Parties, under...
Dos días y la COP17 llega a su fin. Las negociaciones se vuelven secretas, los delegados se reúnen detrás de salas a las que los observadores no pueden entrar. La organizaciones de la sociedad civil...
Every day during the Cancun climate talks, The TckTckTck campaign hosts an open meeting for people to discuss areas of concern and opportunity, and for people & organizations to collaborate on taking...
Teve início ontem à tarde o segmento de alto nível da CoP-16, com a presença de ministros e alguns chefes de Estado e também do secretário-geral das Nações Unidas, Ban Ki-moon. A baixa expectativa em...