The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
In an interview with The Verb, Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has called for greater collaboration between organisations from all over the world in the development of new...
“If you are not at the table, you are probably on the menu,” said Erwin Jackson of The Climate Institute incapsulating the unusual move by the newly elected Australian government in not sending a minister to COP19. NGOs acr...
The 11th of November marks the commencement of the 19th Conference of Parties session to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 9th session of members to the Kyoto Protocol. The COP moves to ...
Just the way we cannot stand to see a hungry child cry for food, we are faced with a situation where there has been a prolonged cry to fill up the belly of a severely malnourished component in tackling climate change, this bein...
This olive oil furore feeds old eurosceptic fires of mistrust in Britain, and does Brussels no favours in presenting its case for the necessity of the EU. Pitchforks down everyone. Last month, thankfully, the Commission, after ...
Sophia’s beginnings as an advocator for change began at a very early age. At just seven years old, Sophia and her siblings were living on the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, for two years before she was given refuge by the Shalo...
Faced with the high crime rate of his local community, an estate in Hackney, East London, 16 year old Wacky Rymel grabbed an opportunity with two hands. Dancing since the age of 6, Wacky felt that much of the gun and knife crim...
A day before the elections, I joined the PTI crowd gathered in front of the parliament to sing to the tunes to Jazba-e-Junoon. It was an appropriate song. There was junoon everywhere. We have always been a highly political na...