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COP20 Fossil Of The Day: Japan’s secret santa

Climate activists might hold on to their receipts this year if Japan’s gifts are anything to go by. The infamous prize, awarded daily for biggest obstruction to climate action, was given to Japan for spending money meant for ...
by Sydney Pead
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COP20: Lima, the heat is on

With the world’s eyes on next year’s climate change conference in Paris, many are looking to Lima for action. Earlier this week the 20th round of the annual UN climate change conference (COP20) has begun in Lima, Perú and...
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COP20: Article 6 and the changing world

Negotiations have already kicked off in Lima, but there is one Article of the convention that isn’t garnering much attention. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mande...
by Malcolm Johnson
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COP20: The state of the ocean in climate negotiations

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick The 20th UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change, kicks off this week in ...
by Malcolm Johnson
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COP20: …And so it begins

Yesterday saw the start of the latest round of the UN climate talks, COP20, in Lima, Perú with traditional outgoing remarks from the former Polish COP19 President Korolec and a welcome from Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the incoming Pr...
by Evan Weber
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COP20: Sun shines from Machu Picchu

Activists from Greenpeace have used the world-renowned Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu to publicise a pro-solar message to global leaders. As the climate world gathers in Lima, Perú, to negotiate a new agreement on climate c...
by Hamish McKenzie
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COP20: A five minute history of climate politics

Today begins the UNFCCC’s COP20 which, since the failure of the Copenhagen Accord, will build on the Durban Platform which follows the Bali Roadmap and the Warsaw Outcomes to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Overwhelmed? Fair enou...
by Hamish McKenzie
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Fast For Climate Justice

Typhoon Haiyan served as a stark reminder to delegates at the UN climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland last year. It also spurred a chain of fasting for climate justice. Last year Yeb Saño, lead delegate for the Filipi...
by Ayesha Constable
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Remembering The Lima Football Tragedy, 50 Years On

Fifty years ago, Peru’s National Stadium in Lima became the site of what is today considered the worst tragedy to ever happen at a football stadium, during which 320 people were killed and 500 were wounded. On May 24, 196...
by Gabriela Garcia Calderon
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