COP23: A conference of small steps
This year’s COP 23 sent a strong Climate Policy signal, with lots of pending actions to combat CC, to be finalized in next year’s COP24 in Poland.
This year’s COP 23 sent a strong Climate Policy signal, with lots of pending actions to combat CC, to be finalized in next year’s COP24 in Poland.
Yana Balling, GCE Alumni, shares us what a “normal day” at COP23 feels like between Negotiations and Side Events.
The events of the Education Day urged us to include Climate Change in national educational curricula, for local action and youth empowerment.
Speeches by Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Enele Sopoaga address national Climate Commitments to combat CC.
Gender Day at COP23 for inclusion and visibility of women and indigenous women in a way to a just transition to a 1.5 degree world.
The biodiverse Latinamerican region is already being impacted at the socio-economic level by Climate Change. Check out top-down strategies to combat CC.
In the context of the COP 23 forest day, representatives from Greenpeace, Imaflora and Imazon, which are part of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute gave an outline of their recent report on a pathway to zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Presentation of the recent report: a pathway to zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon […]
By: Claudia Steinacker “I hear no objections, it is so decided.” As observer in the Bula zone, this sentence was the most heard during the first days of the 23rd Conference of the Parties . Most meetings in the first days of the COP23 still dealt with organizational matters, such as agreeing on the structure […]
By: Steve Kwatcho Kengdo Parallel to informal consultations of the meetings and protocol bodies of the convention where we had limited access, the workshop for the facilitative sharing of views (FSV) under the international consultation and analysis (ICA) process for developing country Parties was organized under the Subsidiary Body of Implementation (SBI) at this 47th […]
By: Steve Kwatcho Kengdo “Negotiations are important, but action is more important” – Salaheddine Mezouar, COP22 President The first week of the conference was marked by the presence of several African countries which share together the urgent need of implementing the Paris Agreement. Besides participating individually to main plenary meetings and informal consultations during meetings […]