Walking with women on the road to Paris Denise Fontanilla February 12, 2015 What is the relevance of gender in the climate change negotiations? With all the developments in the climate talks, Verona Collantes of UN Women hopes that this question will soon not need to be asked.
Kiribati, Jamaica, and the fight for a loss and damage agreement Denise Fontanilla February 11, 2015 “You are now talking about almost total devastation” and you can’t Adapt to total devastation
Adaptation open windows for finance Denise Fontanilla February 10, 2015 It is now the third day of the first round of this year’s United Nations climate talks began here in Geneva, Switzerland. But in a sense, negotiations are just about to happen. Delegates from 195...
The road to Paris begins in Geneva Denise Fontanilla February 8, 2015 Pope Francis waves to pilgrims in Tacloban after holding a mass by the airport last January 17. (Rolan Garcia) Three weeks ago, Pope Francis wore a cheap yellow raincoat in his outdoor mass in Tacloban,...
Loss and Damage alive, but barely Denise Fontanilla December 14, 2014 The rumors about the new draft ADP text were right—loss and damage had its own paragraph, yes, but only in the preamble, where the Warsaw decisions were recalled, and progress on it was said to be welcomed...
Can human rights replace equity for the Philippines? Denise Fontanilla December 13, 2014 Mass Die-In for the Voices Ignored at COP 20 (Photo: Friends of the Earth International) The Lima climate talks are dragging on this Saturday as expected. I started writing this to see how developing...
Rethinking equity in the Philippines? Denise Fontanilla December 12, 2014 Has the Philippines changed its stance on equity? And is this pragmatism the right way to go?
The Philippines: From Like-Minded to Climate Vulnerable Denise Fontanilla December 9, 2014 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...
COP’s the most terrible time of the year. Denise Fontanilla December 3, 2014 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 Denise Fontanilla December 2, 2014 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.
