Skip to content
Menu
  • Home
  • Articles
    • FYEG/EU
    • Green
    • Inclusion
    • Social
  • Blogs
  • Printed editions
    • Quiz printed edition 2022 – Food
  • Contact

Tag: Climate change

Interview: The Fight of the Indigenous People – the Personal Insights of Pajé Pawana

Posted on 19 January 2023

written by Michelle “Jaciara” Alb Indigenous communities play one of the most important roles in the protection of the planet. Their inhabited territories preserve 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, yet they make up only 6% of the population. Indigenous territories are essential for keeping the balance within the ecosystem, because they function as sanctuaries for…

Continue Reading

“Generations that come after us should also live well, not only survive”

Posted on 19 September 2019

Interview with Lucie Hammecke (22), member of the state parliament of Saxony.

Continue Reading

Growth driven society and the illusion of climate change mitigation

Posted on 11 November 2016

Sustainable development has been the focus of all the contemporary climate negotiations. All the environmental agreements and media releases mention the words “sustainable development”, however the COP22, as many other socio-political arenas, are rooted on the definition of economic growth as the route to development. Article 10.5 of the Paris Agreement set out that “Accelerating,…

Continue Reading

FYEG at COP21: Paris Agreement – An Ambitious Disaster?

Posted on 17 December 2015

On the 12th of December 2015 evening a story, ongoing for 21 years, ended. This was the evening when nearly 196 countries agreed to have the first legal treaty, applicable to all, that tries to combat climate change. Unlike it’s predecessor, the Kyoto Protocol which only asked developed countries for emissions reductions, this agreement expects…

Continue Reading

FYEG at COP21: Too big to fail – Analysis of the second draft

Posted on 11 December 2015

Last night, a new text was released in the negotiations halls of Paris. The first important thing to note is the kind of text. It is a proposal by the President of the COP and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Laurent Fabius. This means that the new text is not the final text…

Continue Reading

FYEG at COP21: A new draft agreement reached

Posted on 10 December 2015

Yesterday, there was a new historical moment for the on-going climate negotiations: We finally have a draft agreement! This new text saw a reduction from 21 to 14 pages, and we have a broad overview of what is in the draft and what isn’t. Firstly, the text still has the form that would be needed…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

An opportunity for “Generation Europe XXI” in (re)claiming public spaces in Europe – Degrowth Perspectives

Posted on 4 December 2015

The European youth deals with numerous challenges: economic crisis, environmental crisis, migratory crisis, democratic crisis… If we consider these crises as structuring factors of the European youth, it is a question of wondering about its capacities in (re)claim the European public places. According to a recent study, we have to admit that in France, 71…

Continue Reading
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 6
  • Next
©2023 | WordPress Theme: EcoCoded