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COP16 in Cancun: A Student’s Final Adventure

Posted by in Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series, Rights of Nature on 22nd December, 2010 | 2 Comments

Julianne (l) with Global Exchange's Shannon BiggsAs one of the many interns who has passed through the doors of Global Exchange, I experienced more than I expected while working there.
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Sign Says it All: “Cambia Tu Vida, No Tu Clima”

Posted by in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series on 7th December, 2010 | No Comments

irene2The next post in our continuing coverage from COP16 in Cancun, today Irene Florez shares her perspective on the climate talks and how a sign that reads “Cambia tu vida, no tu clima” (Change your life, not your climate) illuminates a key message.
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Via Campesina COP16 Caravan Makes a Protest Pit Stop

Posted by in Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series, Featured on 29th November, 2010 | 3 Comments

Marchers in MoreliaOn the road to COP 16, La Via Campesina caravan delegation member Irene Florez reports: Traveling with the Via Campesina caravan from Guadalajara to Cancun, our delegation is now picking up about 20 additional climate activists at every stop. Converging through rallies, marches, and civil disobedience actions, the Via Campesina caravan members are meeting with allies in various towns and cities and alerting local populations about the Cancun summit, picking additional passengers up along the way.
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Mexican Families Declare “This Land is Not For Sale”

Posted by in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series, Featured on 28th November, 2010 | 3 Comments

DSCN1020The Via Campesina caravan left from Acapulco today – international and Mexican activists and independent media journalists heard from communities in Guerrero – disputing their forcible expulsion from their homes and fighting a mega dam project called La Parota.
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Copenhagen Accord: Why No Targets?

Posted by in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15, Featured on 29th January, 2010 | 3 Comments

cns“Owning the Story… and the Future” placed in context the clamor for a streamlined climate negotiation process deemphasizing the United Nations, exposing the underlying disdain for democracy and bias against developing nations, the roots of dissatisfaction with the United Nations in U.S. climate negotiation strategy, and the apparent lack of global support for significant change »
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Owning the Story… and the Future

Posted by in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15 on 20th January, 2010 | 1 Comment

The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen drew to a close on Saturday, December 19th, but the effort to control the outcome of the conference has just begun. The United States is at the center of a major push, currently underway, to own the story of Copenhagen and thereby to hopefully drive the course of »
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