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¡BIENVENIDOS A PANAMÁ! / WELCOME TO PANAMA!
1 Oct 2011
ECO thanks the government and people of Panama for hosting the final negotiation session before COP 17 in Durban. For the first time in 20+ years of negotiations, Central America is hosting a UNFCCC meeting. Delegates should know that the region is severely threatened by climate change impacts: four Central American countries are among the […]
LEAKED LULUCF LOOPHOLE TEXT
1 Oct 2011
ECO just found (under a delegates desk) the draft final decision on LULUCF for Durban. In the interest of full transparency, we reproduce it here. Decision -/CMP.7 Land use, land use change and forestry Acknowledgingthat we have been working on this subject far too long and may have lost all sense of proportion, Recallingthat we […]
Charting a new course on shipping emissions
1 Oct 2011
Panama could not be a more fitting place to reboot the negotiations on controlling the high and rising emissions from international shipping. Last month’s G20 finance ministers’ discussions on raising climate finance from international transport suggest there is a huge opportunity to do so. The magnificent sight of the Panama canal is a reminder of […]
My Banaban Experience
15 Aug 2011
Pelenise Alofa President Kiribati Climate Action Network Kiribati The Resettlement of the Banabans Fiji is the hub of the Pacific. Our flights always almost have to stop over in Fiji for connections. While traveling through Fiji, I spent time with the Banabans, a minority race in Fiji. These people were resettled in Fiji in 1945 […]
My Kiribati Experience
12 Aug 2011
Pelenise Alofa President Kiribati Climate Action Network Kiribati The Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN), which is comprised of many youth and women groups in Kiribati, is the first CC NGO established in Kiribati. KiriCAN was originally organized by the Pacific Calling Partnership based in Sydney, who is our working partner today. For the last three […]
My Bonn, Germany Experience!!!
12 Aug 2011
Pelenise Alofa President Kiribati Climate Action Network Kiribati It was my first time in Germany! My first experience (frustrating) at the airport trying to find my way to my hotel in Bonn. My first experience with the CAN International Southern Capacity Building at the UNFCCC. It was also my first experience to be robbed. Mona […]
Strengthening ASEAN
11 Jul 2011
Wanun Permpibul Head, Energy and Climate Change Programme Renewable Energy Institute of Thailand Foundation Thailand The second week in Bonn is over. So many things to share with CANSEA members, comprising colleagues from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, particularly on the issues related to ASEAN. For me, it would be progressive to see ASEAN’s common […]
Lawyers can’t, can we?
8 Jul 2011
Lina Li Consultant Shanshui Conservation Center China I landed in Maritim Hotel- first time here building on previous mixed (both sweet and bitter memories) COP experience in Copenhagen and Cancun, with two big questions in my head: 1. How can we pursue the extension of Kyoto Protocol, the second commitment period of the ('KP CP […]
LULUCF…hoo Wow!!!
8 Jul 2011
Mamady Kobele Keita Climate change team leader Guinee Ecologie Guinea During the June session in Bonn, I have been working on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and it’s amazing to see how most of the participants consider this issue. You are likely to hear “Hoo wow, LULUCF?”, “this is not our concern”, […]
Voice of voiceless is to be heard!
8 Jul 2011
Manjeet Dhakal Clean Energy Nepal Policy and Advocacy Officer/ Act. Program Director Nepal Regardless of whatever the outcome was Copenhagen was successful in making a historical gathering of a large number of participants among the UNFCCC COPs. On a freezing Copenhagen streets, people from around the world demonstrated and urged world leaders to limit developed […]