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David Turnbull on key issues in the climate negotiations

December 7, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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David Turnbull, Director of CAN International, discusses the key issues of the climate negotiations, namely a second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol, long term cooperative action, and climate funding. He claims there is a more masked issue of ambition and calls for delegates to match policy with science. He believes that without a second period of the Kyoto Protocol there cannot be a good overall outcome at the conference. He then discusses USA ambition and calls for more action like the Tar sands protests of Fall 2011.

Interviewed by the Claire Tighe on December 7, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Joshua Wiese calls for USA youth to act on climate change

December 2, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Josh Weise, a United States youth and Project Director of the “Adopt a Negotiator” project, calls to USA youth not to be discouraged by the lack of activity of their government on this front and to instead, mobilize at the local and state levels. He asks them not to lose sight of the bigger vision of national change, saying this will come out of the grassroots mobilization. He asks youth to make sure their efforts are adding to real change on the ground.

Interviewed by Danielle Thompson on December 2, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Joshua Wiese on “Adopt a Negotiator”

December 2, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Josh Weise, a United States youth and Project Director of the “Adopt a Negotiator” project, explains how the project brings youth from many different countries to the negotiations to follow and put pressure on their national delegations as well as report to people back home about the progress. He says the project grew out of a need for youth to have their voices heard about an issue that will affect them more than their country delegates and is close to their hearts.

Interviewed by Danielle Thompson on December 2, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa

Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s position in the climate negotiations

December 1, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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Mr. Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, Democratic Republic of Congo Negotiator and Research Coordinator for the Southern Africa Development Community, discusses what climate change means for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the importance of a second period of the Kyoto Protocol for the DR Congo and what other countries agree with that importance.

Interviewed by Christine Burns on December 1, 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