This is not my New Zealand
Though I haven't been home since October, it's been great to see a lot of climate news in the New Zealand Herald in the last week. This is my friend and mentor Simon Terry, writing in the New Zealand...
Social PreCOP: The door has opened
I leave Margarita Island tonight. Today, the Social PreCOP hosts a closed door (or at least closed tent) ministerial meeting, as at most normal PreCOPs. With the negotiations closed to us, civil society met to...
Just how social is the Social PreCOP?
Yesterday, I said that I did not believe that Venezuela was hijacking the Social PreCOP process for its own political ends. But I do have questions, and they're growing by the hour. As today's plenary...
Social PreCOP: But, first, process
The Social PreCOP began this morning here on Isla Margarita in Venezuela. In true Caribbean style, the opening plenary kicked off about an hour late. And, in true UNFCCC style, it kicked off with a detailed...
New Zealand: Climate change is now an election issue
New Zealand just gained its very own version of the #volveremos movement. Last year, in the second weeks of the Warsaw talks, an unprecedented coalition of social movements and NGOs formed and walked out,...
The Game is Up for Fluoride Believers
The NZ Harbinger publishes shameless denialist clickbait Most of us pay some attention to our teeth. If we get a toothache, we probably go to the dentist. But if someone says you'll get a toothache in a...