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Building Blocks For Paris Emerge, But Ministers Miss Opportunity Take An Easier Road
7 Jun 2014
Bonn – Germany, Friday June 6: Politicians at the UN climate negotiations in Bonn have today sent positive signals in relation to releasing early next year their climate action contributions towards the global agreement due to be signed in Paris in 2015. The US said heads of state should reaffirm at the UN Secretary General's […]
Missing Ministers in Stark Contrast to Signs of Hope Outside
5 Jun 2014
Bonn, Germany – June 5, 2014: Governments failed to seize the moment after only a handful of ministers arrived in Bonn for two days of high level meetings at the UN climate negotiations. According to Climate Action Network – a network of 900 civil society organizations – many ministers from key countries were absent from the […]
Webcast: NGO Press Briefing on UN Climate Negotiations
5 Jun 2014
Bonn, Germany – June 6, 2014: NGO climate policy experts will brief media on the late-breaking developments in the UN climate negotiations in Bonn this week where ministers are today expected to discuss their expectations around the global climate action agreement due to be signed in Paris next year. Who: • Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace […]
Side Event: Civil Society, Equity, and the Preparation and Assessment of National Contributions
3 Jun 2014
Civil Society, Equity, and the Preparation and Assessment of National Contributions Mainstreaming Equity in the Preparation and Assessment of National Contributions SIDE EVENT Thursday, 05 Jun 2014 – 16:45-18:15 Room: Solar The UNFCCC has, to this point, been unable to agree to any sort of meaningful equity review process. Thus, many voices within civil society are now […]
25th Anniversary Logo for CAN members
23 Apr 2014
Download the logo and display on your organization's website this year to celebrate CAN's 25 years of fighting for the climate and your organization's committment to being part of the Climate Action Network.
NGOs say new IPCC report shows climate action delivers benefits, not burdens
13 Apr 2014
Berlin, April 13, 2014: Members of Climate Action Network have welcomed the third installment of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report which lays out the solutions to the climate crisis, giving governments a clear case for urgent action. Members of Climate Action Network provide the following comments on the launch of the report: "The IPCC's working […]
World leaders must respond to IPCC’s harrowing portrait of a future under extreme climate change
31 Mar 2014
Yokohama, March 30, 2014: Governments have been handed a warning by the world's leading climate scientists that society is vastly underprepared to deal with the increased risks posed by climate change impacts. The second installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, released in Yokohama today, has warned that climate change is […]
CAN Statement On Allegations of Spying During Copenhagen Talks
31 Jan 2014
CAN Statement On Allegations of Spying During Copenhagen Talks The world's largest network of NGOs working on climate change, Climate Action Network (CAN), today called on the United States and other governments accused of spying on climate negotiators during the Copenhagen summit in 2009, to publicly renounce such underhanded tactics. CAN condemns such actions. The work currently […]
Coal Smoke Obscures Climate Ambition in Warsaw
23 Nov 2013
[Warsaw, Poland—November 23, 2013] Countries have been exposed at the climate negotiations, in Warsaw, as beholden to vested interests, such as the dirty fossil fuel lobby, after they once again missed an opportunity to put the world on a pathway to securing a comprehensive climate action plan in 2015, according to Climate Action Network. “At the […]
As Warsaw goes down to the wire, NGOs outline what’s at stake
22 Nov 2013
Warsaw, November 22 – With the United Nations climate negotiations in Warsaw expected to wrap up this evening, civil society representatives will brief media on the crunch issues that are still in play. With some emerging economies blocking a way forward on a fair way to divide climate action and still other delegations fighting a […]