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Each day during COP, the Climate Action Network (CAN) awards the prestigious “Fossil of the Day” trophy to the State that did the most in the last 24 hours to block, disrupt, slow or weaken negotiations. Basically, it goes to the country each day that the big NGOs collectively judge to [...]
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Negotiations are running well over time here in Durban. We will keep you up to date as best we can. For more frequent updates, please follow us on Twitter. The rumour here is that negotiations may continue to tomorrow (which will be the third day of Friday 9 December 2011, as far as [...]
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We are liveblogging the last day of COP17 from inside and outside the conference centre. Check back regularly for updates.
Continue Reading → Latest is first. If you don’t like what you read, email, tweet, or otherwise contact your MP.
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We’ve broken day two of the last day into a new post. For [...]
Over a week has passed since we arrived in Durban, South Africa, and the negotiations at COP-17 (aka the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is a bit of a tongue twister) have swung into life. While most Environment & Climate Change Ministers won’t [...]
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NZYD has been extremely fortunate this year. All of our delegates are accredited for both weeks of the UN Climate Change Conference – something that has not happened before. For Elana, Simon and I, our accreditation was thanks to Caroline and the brilliant staff at UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
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“We only have one home”
…in the words of the comedic Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Today, we attended a public faith rally which brought together thousands of supporters of climate justice, leaders of faith, politicians and amazing musicians. Championed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and various faith leaders, the rally was [...]
“I can’t help feeling that we are the most wretched ancestors that any future generation could have.” – Yehudi Menuhin
(As quoted in Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice by Richard P. Hiskes)
An article I recently read called “Generation F*cked: [...]
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