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Obama “backflips” on climate goal

August 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Environment and development groups from around the world condemned the U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern's recent statement* at Dartmouth College renouncing a limit of 2°C temperature rise as a global goal for UN climate negotiations. Mr Stern said that agreeing to a framework to achieve the 2C goal would "only lead to deadlock" and that a new agreement should give countries … [Read more...]

Building on Durban’s climate change momentum

May 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Ministers and high-level officials from 32 countries that met informally in Bonn on 4-5 May have expressed determination to build on the strong momentum of the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban to curb greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. One of the central outcomes of the meeting in South Africa, at the end of last year, was … [Read more...]

Co-chairs elected for climate finance programme

April 26, 2012 Leave a Comment

South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms. Nkoana-Mashabane, has announced the appointment of Zaheer Fakir (South Africa) and Georg Børsting (Norway) as co-Chairs of a work programme on long-term climate finance. 100 Billion Dollars Per Year In the context of meaningful mitigation and adaptation actions and transparency on implementation, … [Read more...]

Nuclear protection threats still looming

April 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Why does the political prestige and prowess associated with the acquisition of nuclear weapons by a government still weigh heavier than considering future damage to the planet? Surely they know by now of the long-term effects of these radioactive chemicals on the environment? Why is a country like Iran developing their nuclear capabilities, while Germany has decided to do … [Read more...]

Tree woman determined to leave a forest for posterity

February 23, 2012 Leave a Comment

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A once an under-greened and neglected area in the outskirts of Durban will soon be boasting with countless lush trees once their homegrown yellowwood and paw-paw trees start spouting up like skyscrapers around them. For about 6 years Natalie Rowles, a 66 year old house wife from Kwazulu Natal has been donating thousands of her home-grown indigenous Yellowwood and paw-paw … [Read more...]

First Global Children’s Charter for the Rights for Mother Earth

February 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

At the turn of 2009/2010, local filmmaker Daréll Lourens and her friend Simone van Keulen had the vision of Earth Junkies, an eco- awareness journey aiming to travel overland through Africa, the Middle East and Europe and work with children to foster ecological citizenship in their foundation years. 2 years have passed and the project has finally realized. Daréll has now … [Read more...]

Maria, Queen of Cardboard

February 10, 2012 2 Comments

Her territory is a labyrinth of hidden refuse rooms bathed in charcoal light. Masterfully she flattens a mountain of discarded cardboard boxes into an efficient bundle. Later she will haul her treasure to a buyer a few roads away and earn her income for the day. Maria Vilakazi is a collector of cardboard at the Workshop Shopping Complex in central Durban. Over the eight … [Read more...]

What are local governments going to do now?

February 10, 2012 Leave a Comment

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At the Durban Local Government Convention, 114 Mayors and other elected local leaders representing over 950 local governments from around the world have adopted the Durban Adaptation Charter, a political commitment to strengthen local resilience to climate change. The Durban Local Government Convention: adapting to changing climate towards COP17/ CMP7 and beyond, ran in … [Read more...]

Shipping emissions still in the hands of IMO

January 31, 2012 Leave a Comment

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The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, the key outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2011, has been dubbed by many as the platform for inaction, with the decision to find agreement by 2015 being seen as the agreement to disagree at a later date. COP17 did little to directly answer the … [Read more...]

New climate dialogue needed

January 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

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“Are the right people in the climate change debating room? Evidence shows climate change hugely impacts on the health and the welfare of children, but conversations in the negotiation process seem removed from this reality and finding solutions for this suffering.” This was one of the questions raised at the jam packed COP17: What Happened and What Does it Mean discussions … [Read more...]

Sunlight inspires responsible copiers

December 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

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Copiers and office equipment are notoriously greedy consumers of energy, even when sitting idle. Yet we cannot run a business, school or educational institution without this essential equipment. That is why we are excited today to introduce you to a leader in more environmentally responsible copiers, making it possible for all of us to get those notes out with a fraction of the … [Read more...]

COP17: success or disappointment?

December 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

They came to Durban in their hundreds, they saw, they talked, and talked, and talked, and talked but the question is did they really conquer? Notwithstanding the extra day and half and the much heralded agreement. What were the successes of the Durban platform as the agreement has been dubbed? The big success is that Durban pulled together all the key role players and … [Read more...]

Please don’t squander this moment

December 9, 2011 Leave a Comment

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An open letter to the governments of the world meeting in Durban. Dear friends, Welcome to our city. We remember a time in Durban – indeed, a period in the history of this nation of South Africa – when we feared that the apartheid states’ intransigence would spark a conflict in which much blood would be shed. But even at our lowest ebb, even when the injustice we faced … [Read more...]

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