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Category: Environment

Ahmad Alhindawi, UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, speaks with YOUNGO Delegate Anton Jaekel

Posted on 22 November 2013

COP19 (16/11/13) – Ahmad Alhendawi the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth arrived in Warsaw this week to work with Youth NGO’s (YOUNGO). He is joined in this interview by YOUNGO member Antonius Magnus Jaekel. He speaks about the inspiration he feels by the work that young people are doing in the climate change movement. One of…

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My first day at the Conference of the Parties (COP 19)

Posted on 15 November 2013

  After happily waking up in the cheapest hostel of Warsaw, our FYEG delegation headed energetically to the UNFCCC conference. The day started with our daily YOUNGO (the umbrella group where all the youth delegations work together) spokescouncil, a meeting where we report our working group efforts and go through the daily agenda together. As…

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THE NEED TO PRESERVE THE COMMONS

Posted on 16 May 2013

Common-property and open-access resources have repeatedly been portrayed as the centerpiece of a Tragedy of the commons. Those resources – such as a forest or a fishery – would tend irremediably to be overused as homo œconomicus users aim to maximize their individual benefit and lead to the depletion of such resources. To answer this…

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Water is a Human right!

Posted on 24 March 2013

Water, water everywhere – but no water to drink! “I remember when I was a child. I used to watch the rivers flow with all its heavenly beauty. Devotees thronged there every morning, children took a delightful stroll into the sparkling waves, couples would bask at the bank of it and enjoy the cool breeze.”…

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The Global South’s predicament in the climate negotiations

Posted on 21 November 2012

 As a wake-up call, does anyone else reckon we should send Annex1 negotiating parties for the next COP to heavily devastated countries due to the climate change?

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Europe and the chronicle of an announced failure at Rio+20

Posted on 9 August 2012

How the EU was pummeled by a US-BRICS alliance and why it was long in the making In the aftermath of the widespread disillusion that is Rio+20, a veritable myriad of pundits have commented at length on this failure of epic proportions. Without exception they have named and blamed the culprits. Of course everyone shares…

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Earth Rights

Posted on 9 August 2012

When I was doing my internship in Brussels for the past three months at the European Parliament, I received on invitation of FYEG. It was saying that in London would be an ‘Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit’ in June. Thanks to the Young Greens in Muenster/Germany who covered my travel expenses  from  Brussels  to …

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Gender Equality towards Sustainability

Posted on 2 August 2012

FYEG organised last month, from June 20th to 27th, an international Conference on Rio+20 and sustainability called “Youth Empowerment and Global Solidarity” . During this Seminar,which held in Brussels, Belgium, participants with speakers and readers developed and debated about differents topics related to the differents connotations of sustainability such as: green economy, degrowth, post-growth, sustainable…

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Equity at the Bonn Climate Negotiations: WTF are they talkin’ about?!

Posted on 20 June 2012

“Equity is a multidimensional and dynamic concept”… Hmmm… think about it… so deep, isn’t it? That’s what Australia has to say when they are asked their views on the key issue of equity of climate collective action. I have not much to say about it but “bullshit, multidimensional and dynamic bullshit!” In Bonn, for the…

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The energy crisis is complex? Switch to resilience and mass collaboration!

Posted on 14 May 2012

The scale and urgency of the energy challenge requires being smart. While policy-makers are usually smart, most are stuck with a broken action paradigm that does not allow them to even think of smart solutions. The new paradigm for action relies on resilience, openness, and mass collaboration.

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