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Winners and losers in the Durban climate deal
13 December 2011 | Tim Gore

In the early hours of Sunday morning, governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, set a path towards a new legally binding agreement for all countries to cut emissions. But the deal struck does little to meet the needs of poor people fighting climate change right now, and risks blurring important distinctions between the responsibilities to act of developed and developing countries.

carbon charges on shipping, climate adaptation, climate change, climate deal, COP17, Durban Platform, food crisis, food security, Green Climate Fund, GROW, hunger, shipping emissions, UNFCCC
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Climate deal fails poor people
11 December 2011 | Ian Sullivan

Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible as the UN climate talks in Durban went well beyond the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth hours.

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Tweet a leader: let’s get some action going at COP17
7 December 2011 | Ian Sullivan

The climate negotiations in Durban are stuttering. There is little progress on agreement on the emission reductions needed to keep warming below 2 degrees. There is also a rumbling debate about how to fill the Green Climate Fund.

Adaptation, carbon charges on shipping, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate deal, COP17, Durban, emisiones, emission of CO2, food crisis, food price, food security, global warming, greenhouse gas, GROW, hunger, kyoto protocol, NGO, oxfam, shipping emissions, South Africa, UN climate talks, UNFCCC
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Thousands call for climate justice while countries prepare their blindfolds
5 December 2011 | Conor Costello

Saturday 3 December was not a normal day for the population of Durban, South Africa. A climate march wound around the streets of the centre as somewhere between 10, 000 to 15,000 people called for – in fact demanded – action on climate change. They brought the city to a colourful, vibrant and peaceful standstill.

Adaptation, carbon charges on shipping, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate deal, COP17, Durban, food crisis, food price, food security, GROW, hunger, NGO, oxfam, shipping emissions, UNFCCC
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Climate change campaigning: An artist, a farmer and a caravan
30 November 2011 | Ian Sullivan

Recently we bought you news about the Trans-African Caravan of Hope as it began the 4,000 mile journey from Burundi to South Africa for COP 17, taking in ten countries along the way. As the caravan heads south, towards Durban, we caught up with two of the caravanites.

Alexis Phiri is a Zambian artist, writer and climate change activist.

climate, climate change, Climate Change Conference, COP17, Durban, UNFCCC
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Hungry for climate action: climate conference begins in Durban
27 November 2011 | Ian Sullivan

The United Nations have unpacked the bunting and draped the decorations around Durban, South Africa, for the next round of climate negotiations, COP17. Leaders, policy experts, delegates, caravanites, photo exhibitions, puppets, the world’s media and all manner of colorful characters have arrived to get their teeth into securing progress in the fight against climate change.

Adaptation, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate deal, COP17, Durban, food crisis, food security, GROW, hunger, UNFCCC
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Help us build a ‘Radio Wave’ for climate action
24 November 2011 | Cara Bevington

With song and stories, people around the world are taking to the radio airwaves, sharing the realities of the climate crisis and calling on people to take action in the lead up to the 2011 UN Climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. 

From 21 November through 2 December 350.org, supported by Oxfam, are inviting people to use the power of song and our voices to take the climate movement to the airwaves.

350.org, COP17, Durban, music, Radio Waves, UN Climate Change Conference, UNFCCC
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A warm 'Buenos días', from the Oxfam team at the Cancún climate summit
24 November 2010 | Richard Casson

Hello. Richard here from Oxfam. Over the next three weeks I'll be writing regularly for this blog. In just a few days time I'll be travelling to the United Nation's summit in Cancún. The event I'll be attending is an international meeting that takes place once a year where government representatives from across the world meet to assess progress on tackling climate change.

climate change, COP16, environment, global warming, UNFCCC
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Righting two wrongs…
6 October 2010 | Thomas Lau

In the corridors of the international negotiations on climate change you can easily lose the sense of urgency and ambitious action. For many people around the world, this has been a year from sheer hell.

adaptation fund, climate change, climate funds, summit China, UN, UNFCCC
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As the weather worsens, Bonn leaves us high and dry
13 August 2010 | Natalie Brook

As temperatures hit a record 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Moscow last week, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev publicly blamed climate change for the unfolding crisis that has led to uncontrollable wildfires and the decimation of crops. In describing the emerging disaster he spoke of the need for a “wake-up call” for all heads of state to take urgent action on climate change.

Cancun, COP 16, Pakistan floods, UNFCCC
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