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?
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…
EDITORIAL – CALL FOR ARTICLES – Towards the COP in Paris
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,…
UN climate talks: so little progress negotiators decide to move to Bonn
After 10 days of remarkably inefficient work at the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) session in Bonn, world negotiators have decided to move from their homes to the former German capital to make sure the text for COP21 in Paris would be ready by December. The objective of this June session was…
The Climate of the Rings – UNFCCC explained with Lord of the Rings
This article tries to explain the current process in the negotiations with quotes from J.R.R. Tolkiens “Middle earth”-saga. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. Oh Frodo, you are just so right! Climate Change and its effects are bad. “This is madness”, as Yeb Sano said in his famous speech…
It’s all about time! – Week 1 of the Bonn Climate Change Conference summarized
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The…
Health & Climate Change: should we care or not?
During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, we usually hear about how climate change affects the world economy, the production, the business and so on. We never heard of how climate change affects our health or national health systems. Maybe we have heard of it, but we never actually paid…
Human Rights in the Climate Talks
Human rights and climate crisis might not be an obvious connection. Sea level rise might mean living nearer the coast, warmer temperatures sound like a nicer summer, regional bananas produced in the Global North sound yummy – that might be the first thing people care of if they hear the term „Global Warming“. But digging…
Global Divestment Day: Climate Justice for Environmental Refugees
By Joshua Miguel Makalintal (FYEG, Junge Grüne) 13-14 February marks the world’s first Global Divestment Day. Climate movements worldwide have participated in this weekend’s fight to urge governments and investors to radically divest from fossil fuels. There is no doubt that we are experiencing an unprecedented climate change that threatens the future of the planet…
Climate Blah Blah Blah or the Foundations of an International Agreement?
In the running up to COP21, the Greens/EFA – under the initiative of Rebecca Harms and Yannick Jardot, leading the subgroup working on COP21 – organized on the 28th of November an high-level conference one year before Paris. They went to town on logistics and guests! But an high-level conference you said? I would rather…