COP23: Education day
The events of the Education Day urged us to include Climate Change in national educational curricula, for local action and youth empowerment.
COP23: Merkel, Macron & Heads of States
Speeches by Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Enele Sopoaga address national Climate Commitments to combat CC.
COP23: Gender day
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.
COP23: Latin America adapts to climate change
The biodiverse Latinamerican region is already being impacted at the socio-economic level by Climate Change. Check out top-down strategies to combat CC.
COP23: Zero amazon deforestation
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 […]
COP23: Wrap-up first week
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 […]
COP23: Biennial Update Report
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 […]
COP23: Summary of the first week from an African perspective
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 […]
Everything you need to know about COP23
By: Katharina Funk Bula! from the UN-Climate Conference in Bonn. Bula is Fijian for “life” and is most commonly used as a greeting, wishing one good health. In this article we want to present an overview of what the COP23 is about. The UN-Climate Conference takes place from 6 – 17 November 2017 in Bonn […]
COP23: Forest day
By: Alicia Medina Valdiviezo “Forests play a huge role in our efforts to tackle climate change” – Manuel Pulgar-Vidal On Sunday, a series of events under an initiative called Forests Global Climate Action were given in COP23 Bonn zone. Here, many countries and corporations have shown that by establishing sustainable forestry management, it is possible […]
