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We can’t just cut emissions in the Philippines
Climate policy analyst Mima Mendoza believes we can’t just talk about cutting down without trying to deal with the impacts in the same breath
Why I Fast: New Zealanders and the Philippines’ typhoons
Activists call for solidarity not just sympathy in Lima I haven't eaten today. I am fasting with the global #Fastfortheclimate movement. I've written about the Fast here before, and I won't repeat the...
In the Wake of Hagupit: Learning from Mistakes and the Long Walk Ahead
Hagupit basically means “shithole” in my native language Bangla. It would be an apt, if crude, summary of the kind of situation the Philippines – and many other climate vulnerable countries – find...
COP’s the most terrible time of the year.
Honduran environmental vice minister Carlos Padilla, Philippine climate commissioner Heherson Alvarez, and Christopher Bals and Sönke Kreft of Germanwatch at the panel of yesterday's Climate Risk Index...
The silencing of Saño and the furor of storms to come
Philippine negotiator Naderev ‘Yeb’ Saño's absence at the ongoing UN climate talks in Lima, Peru, doesn't augur well, even as storms both literal and figurative loom in the horizon.
I didn’t eat today - and nor did Tuvalu
It's five minutes to midnight. I woke up at 6:10 this morning. And I haven't eaten today. I am part of the small, diverse team of climate activists and faith leaders who run the global Fast for the...
New Zealand Minister of Everything denies climate change
Yesterday I meant to write two things: a nice, positive upbeat piece for the media back home about Connected Voices and the international youth movement, and a kind of wonky blog post about climate...
And they laughed.
When a journalist from the New Zealand Herald asked me why I was going to Warsaw, I said it was because I had only ever been ashamed to be a New Zealander once. It was when I was in Durban and I faced the...