Category: LDCs

Negash Teklu on Climate Change in Ethiopia

December 6, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Negash Teklu from Ethiopia, Executive Director of Population, Health, Environment (PHE) Consortium Ethiopia and COP 17 Party Member to Ethiopia, discusses how climate change is affecting the environment in Ethiopia and East Africa in general and how these changes are negatively affecting poverty levels. He also discusses the hope Ethiopia has for the COP and the second period of the Kyoto Protocol.

Interviewed by Emily Bowie on December 6, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Negash Teklu on adaptation initiatives in East Africa

December 6, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Negash Teklu from Ethiopia, Executive Director of Population, Health, Environment (PHE) Consortium Ethiopia and COP 17 Party Member to Ethiopia, discusses the adaptation knowledge that local communities in East Africa possess and the need for governments, civil society and the private sector to engage the local communities and utilize this knowledge for adapting to climate change.

Interviewed by Emily Bowie on December 6, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Negash Teklu on the activities of PHE-Ethiopia and funding

December 6, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Negash Teklu from Ethiopia, Executive Director of Population, Health, Environment (PHE) Consortium Ethiopia and COP 17 Party Member to Ethiopia, discusses the activities of PHE-Ethiopia including pilot sites, social research and workshops. He then explains the sources and system of funding for the organization.

Interviewed by Emily Bowie on December 6, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Saleemul Huq on the role of vulnerable countries at COP 17

November 30, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development Climate Change Group, explains the role of vulnerable countries in the negotiations under three main groups: AOSIS, LDCs and the African Group. He continues to explain what these countries should aspire to do in the face of no binding agreement.

Interviewed by Esther Babson, Anna McGinn, Maggie Rees and Claire Tighe on November 30, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Saleemul Huq on the transition to a green economy

November 30, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development Climate Change Group, discusses how climate change will severely affect the development of poor countries in the near future. He says in the long term, however, China and the United States will begin to compete for integrating sustainability into what he says will be the new economy. Huq believes it will be competition, not negotiations, that will eventually drive the transition into a green economy. However, he describes the necessity for the issue to still be solved as a global challenge because it is in essence a global problem. Finally, he emphasizes the ever-pressing need for on the ground action.

Interviewed by Esther Babson, Anna McGinn, Maggie Rees and Claire Tighe on November 30, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Saleemul Huq on the key issues at COP 17

November 30, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development Climate Change Group, names the most critical issues at the 17th Conference of the Parties to be a second period for the Kyoto Protocol and the construction of the Green Climate Fund. He names setting up the adaptation tract and working on the texts for the NAPs, REDD+ and technology transfer as the smaller and more likely to be solved issues. He then explains how likely he believes it is for conclusions to be met on these issues.

Interviewed by Esther Babson, Anna McGinn, Maggie Rees and Claire Tighe on November 30, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Saleemul Huq on the Green Climate Fund

November 30, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development Climate Change Group, explains the Green Climate Fund and its history as well as its future in the current conference and beyond.

Interviewed by Esther Babson, Anna McGinn, Maggie Rees and Claire Tighe on November 30, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Tiana Ramahaleo on Madagascar’s position in the climate negotiations

November 29, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Tiana Ramahaleo from the Madagascar delegation and World Wildlife Fund discusses Madagascar’s role within the G77 and the African Group. He also explains Madagascar’s wishes for a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and further progress on REDD. Ramahaleo also explains the different views Madagascar has compared with Canada and the United States concerning the negotiations – he believes if developed countries don’t want to participate in the Kyoto Protocol they should at least step aside and stop interfering.

Interviewed by Anna McGinn on November 29, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Tiana Ramahaleo on Madagascar’s climate vulnerability and negotiations position

November 29, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Tiana Ramahaleo from the Madagascar delegation and World Wildlife Fund discusses Madagascar’s alarming vulnerabilities to climate change, both in biodiversity and livelihoods. He then describes the critical issues that the delegation from Madagascar is following at COP 17.

Interviewed by Anna McGinn on November 29, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa