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Posts filed under UN Climate Talks 2015
Benjamin Brooking: The highlights from Leaders Day with David Gawith
I caught up with David Gawith to get the highlights from the COP21 leaders event. Strong sentiments and emotive entreaties kicked off the negotiations. But who said what, and will words translate into actions?
Florence Reynolds: Changeons le systeme?
I write this from my inner city Parisian hostel, nose still stinging from tear gas, sirens drowning out the background traffic noise.
This morning, I set out to observe and document the civil society demonstrations that were planned to take place despite the French Government's ban on protests of "two or more people with a political message".
Florence Reynolds: Opinion: 'Peaceful protest destined to fail'
Today, our COP 21 delegate Florence Reynolds was published in the NZ Herald, sharing her views on the civil disobedience she witnessed firsthand in Paris on Sunday.
Florence Reynolds: Hunger speaks a Thousand Words
The fast made me slow. Unable to concentrate, I moved around the convention centre on fossilised legs. The slowmotion state of blood pumping insufficient sugar throughout my circulation felt like a form of death. But death itself was moving too slowly to be lethal. When I stood to give a speech it felt hollow, a cliché reflection of my stomach.
Kya Raina Lal: Hungry for Climate Justice – Fast for the Climate
One year ago today, I fasted in Lima at COP20. Today I fast again, in Paris at COP21. Along the way I joined a 365 day long human fasting chain on the 21st of April 2015. We are hungry for Climate Justice.
Florence Reynolds: Australian presents John Key a Fossil
Today was the first day of COP21. We left our hostel at 6:30am and caught the train to Le Bourget in the dark. Apologies at this stage for the brief and possibly bland blog – I am already seriously suffering from the effects of a COP sleep schedule.
Once inside the venue, I somehow managed to get separated from my delegation by walking into a restricted area with heads of State, and then spent an hour trying to find my way around the massive conference centre using the few and far between, unoriented maps. Finally I arrived at the 8am meeting room for the Spokescouncil of YOUNGO (the youth constituency of the UNFCCC).
Ryan Mearns: Opinion: 'To Paris with Hope'
Today, our COP 21 delegate Ryan Mearns was published in the NZ Herald's Element Magazine, with his perspectives coming into the UN climate talks in Paris.