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Showing posts with label UNFCCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNFCCC. Show all posts
Sunday, November 14, 2021

COP26 inches to a close, for the first time including language on coal and fossil fuels phase down

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Watching the UNFCCC livestream UN Climate Change conferences are reknowned for running extensively into overtime with last minute negotiat...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

UNFCCC closes the door literally on civil society demanding climate justice at COP25

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Multiple civil society organisations including indigenous and environmental groups co-ordinated a protest outside the main Plenary - Bake...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Chile civil society NGOs reject reasons for Piñera decision to cancel hosting APEC summit and COP25 climate summit following social unrest

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In a brief statement the UNFCCC announced that COP25 would not be held in Chile as advised by the Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera. ...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Are human rights being included in Paris Agreement rulebook at COP24?

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Civil society organisations fought hard at the United Nations Climate Change conference COP21 in Paris in 2015 for human rights obligation...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

David Attenborough - World facing existential risk with climate change

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COP24, Katowice, Poland, 3rd December 2018: Transcript of speech by David Attenborough Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. ‘We th...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Colour scale confusion in Australian heatwave maps

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Forecast Map produced by Bureau of Meteorology for 5pm 11 February, 2017. Source I am reflecting on how easy it is for misleading informat...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

US Congress considers bill to abolish funding to IPCC, UNFCCC, Green Climate Fund

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Abolition of Funding for IPCC, UNFCCC, Green Climate Fund is the target of Bill HR 673 introduced into U.S. Congress on January 24, 2017. ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Farewell to a Climate Queen - Christiana Figueres

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The Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, is stepping down from her position. She took over the important role in 2010...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

As Greg Hunt signs #ParisAgreement, I am still ashamed of Australia's abysmally low climate targets

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A Record 176 nations signed the Paris Agreement at a UN ceremony in New York, Australia among them. But Australia was also snubbed by not ...
Monday, February 1, 2016

With rising emissions Australia applies Kyoto credits to meet 2020 climate target

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The latest analysis from Reputex energy consultancy shows that Australia will not meet our 2020 emissions reduction target, except by usin...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Corporate Greenwashing and conflict of interest at UN climate conference #COP21

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I was surprised at what I found of the extent of conflict of interest between the sponsors of the UN Climate Conference , the French State...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Will Australia be a spoiler or lifter for #Paris2015 global #climate agreement?

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This article was originally published at nofibs.com.au The Geneva negotiating text provides hope for a global climate agreement in the l...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Warsaw Climate Change negotiations failing warn Friends of the Earth

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Friends of the Earth International representatives said that COP19 United Nations climate change negotiations are set to fail due to the ver...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Youth observers expelled from UN climate change talks for Philippines Solidarity

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Justice is being demanded from the UNFCCC leadership to reverse its decision to take away the badges of 3 youth observers who were expressin...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Hunger strike gains momentum at Warsaw climate talks

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Civil society members have joined with the lead negotiator from the Philippines, Yeb Sano, to fast for the duration of the UNFCCC climate ne...

Protests against coal plants across Poland as Warsaw climate change talks open

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Greenpeace activists launched protests at six coal fired power stations across Poland just before the UN climate conference - COP19 - starte...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Australia earns first rebuke by civil society at UN climate change talks

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Australia had the dubious priveledge of earning the first Fossil of the Day award at the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. Ci...

Philippines negotiator launches hunger strike in Warsaw "We need an emergency climate pathway"

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Half a world away from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan , the Philippines delegation is in Warsaw, Poland, for the United Nations Framework...
Monday, June 13, 2011

World Bank dirty investments fueling climate change claims Friends of the Earth report

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Amid the latest UN climate talks taking place in Bonn Germany Friends of the Earth International have released a report highly critical of t...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Climate Shame: Copenhagen agreement fails UN processes and the planet

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Climate negotiations in Copenhagen ended with a whimper and some chaos in the final plenary. About 115 national leaders attended the Copenh...