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FYEG at COP21: Gender, working methods, and the Adaptation Fund

Posted on 9 December 2015

Today’s theme was gender, thus several events focus on showcasing women’s initiatives and voices as well as calling for the inclusion of all gender equality in the agreement article 2. Many organisations also called for improved accessibility of climate finance for local solutions because these measures target women in particular. This week it is the…

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FYEG at COP21: Show me the money, Saudi Arabia the blocker, and Loss & Damage

Posted on 8 December 2015

Today the negotiations went into their final stage: The ministers arrived. There is still an optimistic atmosphere in the hallways of Le Bourget, where the negotiations take place, in the hope to reach an agreement. The discussions about finance are at a starting point. The already provided climate finance is, according to certain figures, around…

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FYEG at COP21: Negotiations halfway, our analysis

Posted on 5 December 2015

Today we reached the mid-term of the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. The negotiations are portrayed  by media and also some  civil society organizations as being on the edge of disaster. The pessimism towards these already-too-slow negotiations is spreading. The media writes about the concerns of participants from civil society as well as of official…

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FYEG at COP21: #KeepUsInTheRoom

Posted on 3 December 2015

Whereas the delegates are negotiating on key elements of the draft text for the new climate agreement, also know as ADP, in “spin-off groups”, civil society is struggling to observe and access to the negotiations because these spin-off groups are closed to observers. Step-back: last session in Bonn, October 2015 Japan supported the decision to…

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FYEG at COP21: Let’s… try?

Posted on 1 December 2015

The biggest UN event that has ever taken place outside of New York has started. It’s the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), also known as the UN Climate Talks. This event is about the past, the present, and #itsourfuckingfuture. It will determine the future…

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Refugees’ crisis: Berkasovo / Bapska border crossing

Posted on 13 November 2015

Human Rights monitoring 28. – 30. 10. 2015 I have spent 3 days on Serbian-Croatian border in Berkasovo (SR) as a volunteer involved in the grass root, self-organized and self-named “Czech Team”. During that time there were more than 100 volunteers working and an absolute majority were from the Czech Rep. The main task of…

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A Polarised Society or the Catalan Autumn?

Posted on 8 October 2015

Last 27th of September there were elections in Catalonia. They were transcendental elections, as the right-winged government of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC, ALDE in the European Parliament), led by the President Artur Mas, as well as the main centre-left party, Esquerra Repubicana de Catalunya (ERC, EFA in the EP) —both of them in a…

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EDITORIAL – CALL FOR ARTICLES – Towards the COP in Paris

Posted on 29 September 2015

CALL FOR ARTICLES : THE ROAD TOWARDS THE COP IN PARIS   Hello young enthusiastic people,   On the road towards the upcoming COP21 in Paris we invite you all to send in articles regarding the topic. What are your local perspectives or initiatives, what is your member organization doing, what are your personal insights,…

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Silent Realities – Heteronormative Hegemony & Divisions within the Queer Community in Chile

Posted on 25 September 2015

Shyam Anand Singh is a young academic from Singapore who delved into the Chilean LGBTQ community for his research. It was 7.30pm at Bellas Artes Metro Station and I was due to meet Eduardo [not his real name], a 24 year old Law student from Diego Portales University. I scanned the staircase next to the…

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We are responsible

Posted on 23 September 2015

The interest of mine to write something and share my ideas and thoughts about this topic appeared after a Facebook discussion. The headline of the link we started to discuss was “Feminists are not responsible for educating men”. I may be a bit radical and some of you may not share the same thoughts with…

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