Is America Ready for Climate Change Refugees? Andreas Sieber September 3, 2015 Africa & Middle East, Americas, Country, Dominica, Europe, Iceland, Regions, Syrian Arab Republic, Tracking, U.S.A. The American people need to ask to ask themselves 1 thing: Are they ready for a refugee crisis in the Caribbean?
Developed world still won’t clean its mess! Avik Roy November 22, 2013 Asia, Australia, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Europe, India, Pacific, Tracking, U.S.A. No one knows when this madness will get over! WARSAW, November 22/ 11:45PM (CET): The National Stadium went alive today with hundreds of people chanting aloud ‘Stop climate madness’ as the...
Behind the Scene of Coal and Haze Jiang Wei November 20, 2013 Asia, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Tracking, U.S.A., United Kingdom The hase in Beijing and several other big cities have posed disturbance to both the public and the decison-makers. Sharing the same root with the cause of climate change, how can China shift the air...
One week gone: How far did the ship sail? Avik Roy November 18, 2013 Africa & Middle East, Americas, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Europe, Fiji, India, Japan, Pacific, Poland, South Africa, Tracking, U.S.A., United Kingdom One week is over at the 19th session of the Conference of Parties here at Warsaw. One whole week of that precious and much-hyped two-week long annual saga is told. The emotional plea of the Philippine...
The Definition of Madness David Tong November 18, 2013 Americas, Australia, Canada, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Pacific, Russian Federation, Tracking, U.S.A., Ukraine My father used to tell me that the definition of madness was to keep on doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result each time. A sane person, he claimed, would try one thing, find it...
Sunday Special:3 unofficial reasons why you should come to COP Jiang Wei November 17, 2013 Africa & Middle East, Americas, Asia, Brazil, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Fiji, India, Peru, Philippines, Tracking, U.S.A., Ukraine I didn’t hear of COP until my senior year in college. It was more like it came to me than I bumped into it. The old pictures and coverage of Chinese young people’s actions at COP15 touched me with an...
Loss and Damage remains the bone of contention Avik Roy November 15, 2013 Asia, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, India, Philippines, Tracking, U.S.A. As shocking stories continue to roll in from communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, rich countries persisted in blocking UN climate negotiations. The G77+China group bloc have submitted...
Visualization of countries positions ahead of the COP-19 - industrialized countries Sébastien Duyck October 24, 2013 Americas, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Europe, Guatemala, Japan, New Zealand, Pacific, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Tracking, U.S.A. Visualization through word clouds and analysis of the positions of industralized countries ahead of the next round of climate negotiations.
Taking science seriously: the short-comings of the US approach to international climate action Sébastien Duyck May 5, 2013 Tracking, U.S.A. The proposal put forward by the US delegation at the climate negotiatons remains the same: relying on a bottom-up approach and ignoring science. This post explore the short-comings of such an approach.
Universal and Useless? The Umbrella Group and the 2015 Agreement Luke Kemp May 1, 2013 Americas, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Pacific, Russian Federation, U.S.A., Ukraine Will universal participation be achieved at the expense of the climate in 2015? Guess post by Luke Kemp, PhD scholar with Australian National University A recent trend in politics and academia has been...
