As Climate Talks Stumble, U.N. Process in Question
p>A key deadline for countries to submit emission reduction goals to the United Nations as part of the recently negotiated Copenhagen Accord passed last Sunday. The U.N. received commitments from 55 nations, but 139 countries remain unsupportive of the political statement, leading the international body to push back the commitment deadline indefinitely.
Since the high-level climate [...]
Call for 2nd Round of Applications: Agents of Change
Calling all Climate Crusaders!
IYCN’s Agents of change program is now accepting 2nd round of applications to part of the ‘Agents of Change’ as the Asian subcontinent youth delegation, 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 [...]
Setting the scene in Bonn
As we were having our first youth meeting I looked outside to the beautiful sunny, green garden with a fountain. Who else do I see but three of our Indian negotiators. How is this possible? Indian bureaucrats are often quite hard to access or catch – but I guess I’m not in India. I’m writing [...]
India is HOT at UN
The first time ever Indian youth delegation to the fourteenth session of the conference of the parties to the United Nations framework convention on climate change held at Poznan’ recently had a phenomenal exposure including a meeting and discussion with Yvo de boer , president of COP and Sir Nicholas Stern from UK. The conference [...]
Youth Have Their Voices Heard at the UN Climate Negotiations
This year in Poznan, the youth from around the world set out to make change. We set out to support the voices of the most vulnerable countries, the voices that are least heard. Our voices echoed the halls of the UN Climate Conference as we shouted “survival is not negotiable” for countries and people for [...]
Choice Words from Chaitanya
After all one has heard, learned and virtually seen of the UN and the UNFCCC talks every year at the COP, it was huge if not historic to have India’s first ever youth delegation making its presence felt at the COP. The talks began in Poznan on the 1st of December and the next two [...]
