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COP18: Doha Briefs – Pulling off the blinders

Ambition has been the buzzword of late at COP18, and this is especially with regards to finance and cutting down of Green House Gas emissions. Ambition Lacks There has been a constant outcry by the least developing countries a...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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COP18: Conflict in climate change and Africa

Young climate change activist and women’s rights advocate Ruth Nyambura is attending the United Nations Climate Conference this year to join the voices of the global south calling for strong action on climate change. Nyambura...
by Sophie Trevitt
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COP18: African Union

Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions about Africa is that up until a few years ago, measures to tackle climate change within the continent were non-existent. Africa didn’t have environmental protection laws, right? Wrong...
by Ruth Nyambura
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COP18: Piracy to solve climate change?

Climate change. Piracy. Technology. Three things that don’t normally go together, only within the context of the UN climate change negotiations, could actually be the key to tackling dangerous climate change. The issue of pi...
by Michael Mazengarb
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COP18: Climate change and Africa’s health

For health anywhere to be sustained, people need clean air, safe water, adequate food, tolerable temperature, stable climate, and high levels of biodiversity. Climate change is envisaged to alter all these requirements of a hea...
by Daniel Wasonga
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COP18: Where COP18 talks are at

Week one of negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference (COP18) in Doha, Qatar have drawn to a close with disappointingly little to show for it. Ministers will arrive tomorrow to continue  negotiations with th...
by Sophie Trevitt
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COP18: Doha Briefs – Common accounting mechanism and the status quo games

Us against them? It had just hit 2am in Doha and everybody was looking at each other with a wee bit of anger. Everyone was tired, obviously. Mugs of coffee were scattered all over the table. Thus far the negotiations have centr...
by Rubin Makomere
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COP18: It’s All About the Money – LCA updates

As negotiations in Doha continue three things are glaringly obvious – the process is slow, there remains a distinct lack of trust between developing and developed countries and it’s all about the money. Yesterday, day four ...
by Sophie Trevitt
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COP18: Climate change and conflict – The youth constituency

The nexus… It is really hard to talk about climate change without mentioning conflict. So where is the nexus? It’s pretty easy to see the connection. See, climate change manifests itself through the effects and events that ...
by Rubin Makomere
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