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COP15 Update: Wed. Videos from Jessy Tolkan and Gillian Caldwell Read More... |
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COP15 Week 2: Emotions running high! Post by Lindsey Berger, FTN COP15 Delegation Team Leader "Ten billion dollars will neither buy food nor coffins.” It's week two, and a certain level of intensity has coated the city joining the fog- this is what we've been preparing for. Last week we focused our efforts on identifying the role that the U.S. would play at COP15. The results are in- we Read More... |
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From Navajo Nation to COP15 Post by Amanda Hass, 09 Focus Roots Fellow and member of FTN COP15 Delegation Photos courtesy of Photographer Mark Knudsen/Klimaforum09  While the COP15 negotiations go on, I found these elite international politics quite frustrating and at complete odds to our program with Navajo youth- a local initiative inclusive to all and based on empowerment. Luckily, I found out about the alternate summit, called Klimaforum, like a Powershift with a slight anarchist, European edge.
The first workshop I had gave me incredible connections to a world-wide Indigenous Art project. Yesterday, I Read More... |
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Rock the Boat Copenhagen "The international youth are working together in solidarity for the same vision. We are showing the type of solidarity that we need to see from our elected leaders." "We must tell Obama- even if he has to regulate with the EPA, he must do it!" --Garett Brennan, Focus the Nation- Executive Director Read More... |
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COP15: From the streets to the meeting room with Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing Post by Garett Brennan, Executive Director- Focus the Nation The other morning, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) released their AOSIS Text. The first proposal in the negotiations so far that is actually responding to what the science is demanding: 1. Fair – securing at least $200 billion by 2020 in climate financing to support poor countries to bear costs associated with Mitigation, Adaptation and Insurance in the event of disasters. 2. Ambitious – peaking global carbon emissions by 2015, and returning atmospheric carbon dioxide levels below 350 parts per million 3. Binding – a legally binding agreement that can be enforceable. “We are not Read More... |
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Video of Saturday's actions and marches in Copenhagen Courtesy of Greenpeace: Read More... |
