Battle until Dawn over Humanity’s Survival
It is 6:13 am and in the Bella Conference Center I am listening to the chair of the AOSIS (Association of Small Island States) trying to fight off uncontrollable tears. I am almost certain that the Group of 77 (a behemoth of 130 plus developing country states) is coming to an end. Countries [...]
Youth Statement to the High-Level Segment of COP15
Youth Statement at COP15
Good afternoon my fellow human beings.
My name is X, and in the year 2050 I will be X years old.
I am proud to represent the International youth climate movement.
Christina Ora, a 17 year old from the Solomon Islands, addressed the opening plenary last Monday. She said “I was born in 1992. You [...]
Demonstrators at Climate Conference witness Police Brutality
Mohamed Nasheed’s speech reflecting the breaking up of COP negotiations
“This is the end game in more ways then one.
I think we should celebrate the progress made so far.
No one expected such an historic endeavor to be easy. I am still optimistic that we can leave this meeting with a planet saving deal.
I would like to point out that during the course of the last [...]
I wish i was born in Bolivia!!
How does one judge leadership to meet the objectives for a cause? Looking at historical precedents we have seen various types of motivation for leaders to live up to for their subjects. The father of industrial revolution – Henry Ford’s sole motivation was to mechanise prodution process at the same time provide employment to Americans. [...]
LAND TRANSPORT MIGHT PEEP IN DURING COP15 DISCUSSIONS
Climate change and transport
Transportation plays an important role in a country like India with huge population and immense potential to grow. Climate change and its relation to transportation gains significance from the fact that it constitutes to about 14% of the Green House Gas emissions, [IPCC, 2004]. With 23% of total energy demand constituted to [...]
Chords for Climate–Delhi Climate Concert!
Negotiators Past, Present, and Future
he fossil awards presented the second dishonourable mention to an unprecedented trio of Austria, Finland, and Sweden, for their shameful and atrocious actions in the very first day of COP15. Their claim to dishonour arose from their promotion of a new text, that would allow countries to set their reduction targets against baselines that [...]
The Farce of “Emissions Intensity”
Recently, nations and their spokespersons have begun bandying about new numbers, grabbing headlines with ambitious seeming reductions based on a new measurement called “emission intensity”.
The public is being deceived by this type of jargon and manipulation of the issues. The real issue is our civilisation’s use of resources to promote greed, and the [...]
A Letter to our Leaders
Dear Leader,
Namaste. We are the Indian Youth Delegation representing the concerns of Indian Youth and many more to the United Nations COP-15 in December. Our group, selected from all over India by the Indian Youth Climate Network consists of a 20 members team. We come to you in the interests of over 1.3 billion people [...]
India changes stance to push for a global deal at Copenhagen
The past week saw some major changes in India’s stance before the Copenhagen meeting. India softened its demand of 40% emission reductions from the Annex 1 countries(a Kyoto protocol term for the developed countries expected to agree to binding emission cuts), which is a move that will disappoint many climate change activists across the world, [...]
What’s obstructing the Copenhagen deal?
Last week in Bangkok, as the Canadian lead negotiator was mid-way through his keynote that proposed a radical measure of abandoning most parts of Kyoto protocol, dozens of delegates from developing nations walked out. This was only the latest symptom of rapidly growing rift between the developed nations and the developing nations.
Confronting Climate Change
By Navroz K. Dubash
One of the problems that India’s new government will find itself confronting – a problem that is rapidly moving up the global geopolitical agenda – is the issue of climate change. This issue is extremely pertinent to India for a number of reasons. First, climate change is likely to hit India hard [...]
Agents of Change Applications Announced!
Calling all Climate Crusaders!
IYCN’s Agents of Change Program (AoC) is now accepting applications to be part of the Asian subcontinent youth delegation, and the AoC Grounds team for the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention and the fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP15 and [...]
COP 14 Reflection
Nearly two months after the end of the Conference of Parties 14, youth in India are beginning to unite. They are beginning to recall the “tryst with destiny” that India had made long ago. The time has come to take action, the freedoms which generations before fought for are again at risk. This time, a [...]
