Cop20 Side Event "Adaptation & Agroecology: Women's strategies for Climate Change" - 1 Dec. 2014, Lima (Peru)

Dear friends You are cordially invited to participate in our side event at the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference in Lima i.e. CoP20 (flyer below): Title: "Adaptation & Agroecology: Women's Strategies for Climate Change" Date: 1 December 2014, Monday, 13:15 - 14:45 ; Venue - Room 'Paracas' Women small-scale farmers are using agroecology to adapt to climate change. But these gains are threatened by a lack of climate finance, false solutions,...

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CECOEDECON at The UN Climate Summit 2014 in New York

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2014 Climate Change Summary – Chair’s Summary from the UN Climate Summit, 23 September 2014, UN HQ, New York City

The purpose of the 2014 Climate Summit was to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change. I asked leaders from government, business, finance and civil society to crystallize a global vision for low-carbon economic growth and to advance climate action on five fronts:...

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50 Civil Society Representatives Selected for UN Climate Summit (including Beyond Copenhagen member CECOEDECON)

At the request of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, UN-NGLS issued an open call for nominations of civil society speakers and attendees for the 2014 UN Climate Summit, with a deadline of 15 August. UN-NGLS received 544 nominations, which can be viewed here (multiple submissions for the same person were consolidated into one entry). Between 16-25 August, UN-NGLS facilitated a civil society Selection and...

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Historic UN Climate Summit Opens New Chapter in Global Efforts to Tackle Climate Change

New York, 23 September – New commitments, new ideas, and new financing for significant actions to address the challenge of climate change dominated the announcements made by more than 100 Heads of State and Government and leaders from the private sector and civil society at the Climate Summit hosted Tuesday by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. World leaders reaffirmed the need to take urgent action to limit global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius. Acknowledging that the world was not on a pathway to reach that...

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Global Days of Action for Development Justice - "Nyayapoorna Vikas ki Maang"

"U;k;iw.kZ fodkl dh ekax" A few pics of the event "Global Days of Action on Development Justice" that CECOEDECON and Beyond Copenhagen Collective organized as part of the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development. on 21 July at Shilki (Chaksu), Jaipur. The event brought multi-stakeholders that have been left behind in the development process by ensuring representation from the grassroots - smallholder and marginalized farmers,...

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Hard choices at Copenhagen

During the Climate Change Conference in 2009, the Obama-BASIC meeting was a watershed, saving Copenhagen from a complete collapse and also marking the emergence of the BASIC quartet as a major force in international climate policy diplomacy Hillary Clinton’s recent memoirs reveal how during the fortnight-long Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, on December 18, 2009, United States President Barack Obama and she barged into a room in which...

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A year later, no lessons learnt

Little seems to have been done by the State governments, past and present, in the area of disaster prevention, mitigation and management. Picture shows Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel rescuing a woman pilgrim during the floods. Source: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-year-later-no-lessons-learnt/article6120397.ece Uttarakhand is still in dire need of a development plan that is also sensitive to the fragile ecosystem...

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Right Now We ‘Grossly Underestimate’ Economic Damage From Climate Change, New Paper Says

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/16/3449645/stern-updated-climate-model-economic/ Our current models “grossly underestimate” the economic damage that will be wrought by climate change, according to British climate change economist Lord Nicholas Stern. So he and a colleague just published a new preliminary paper that makes a few key updates. Right now lots of mainstream climate research, including the...

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