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Joshua Wiese: Will a different kind of start lead to a different kind of...
The main plenary hall for the UN climate talks in Panama | Photo Credit: Adopt a Negotiator/Flickr I’ve followed international climate negotiations for 3 years. It’s my 9th session, and while I...
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Joshua Wiese: Packing our bags for Panama…
Panama City, Panama | Photo Credit: Advanced Source Productions, Creative Commons licensed After a two month hiatus, International climate negotiations kick off again in Panama this Saturday. I’m...
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Joshua Wiese: Adopt a Negotiator Project
Courtesy of: Joshua Wiese, 2011 Every two weeks we are proud to recognize one of the 300 partner organizations that make up our the TckTckTck global climate alliance. This week we are pleased to share...
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UN chief urges youth to build a movement against climate change
Christiana Figueres at COP16- Creative Commons: Kristian S. Aus, 2010 United Nations Climate Change Chief Christiana Figueres has challenged young people in Trinidad and Tobago to use communications...
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Shipowners join WWF and Oxfam in call for reduced ship emissions
Creative Commons: Phil Brandwood, 2007 Oxfam, WWF and the International Chamber of Shipping (which represents over 80% of the world merchant fleet) call on delegates to COP 17 to give the International...
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Staying positive as climate talks hit delays
Courtesy: 350.org, 2011 One of the most frequent questions I am asked at the international climate negotiations goes along these lines: “How do you remain positive when you, a citizen and...
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Alert: U.S. becomes primary blocker to global climate treaty
Creative Commons: Climate Interactive, 2011 Primary Message The U.S. is becoming a primary blocker to the success of a global climate treaty at the COP17 climate negotiations in Durban. Please Retweet:...
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Tck partners respond to outcome of COP17
Courtesy: Green Climate International, 2011 Here are a number of responses from our partners to the outcome of the COP17 International climate change negotiations held in Durban, South Africa: World...
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Durban negotiations help strengthen fight against climate change
Creative Commons: Global Campaign for Climate Action, 2011 UN climate change conferences don’t of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only...
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Business leaders demand sustainable action at Rio +20
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2009 Policymakers and the business community should ramp up collaboration and demonstrate renewed leadership in order to achieve sustainable and equitable growth...
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Partner Spotlight: Abigail Rose Borah, SustainUS
Courtesy: Abigail Borah Every two weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 300+ partner organizations making up our global climate movement. This time we’re delighted to share a short...
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Maldives ex-president vows to keep fighting for swift action on climate change
Creative Commons: Mat McDermott, 2009 When Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed resigned last month, many people outside the archipelago were shocked to hear the leader, famed for once holding a scuba...
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Trash and the business of climate adaptation in Jamaica
Creative Commons: BBC World Service, 2008 For more than a week this past February, the city choked on the acrid smoke that forced schools and business to close. It racked up millions of dollars in lost...
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Least Developed Countries bring plan for action to Bonn
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2011 The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally...
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Kelly Rigg: From binding to fair, looking ahead at the Bonn negotiations
I recorded the video message above on Earth Day, for the May edition of the UNFCCC newsletter. As the Bonn climate talks—the first round of UN climate negotiations since Durban in December—begin...
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Adopt a Negotiator: Stakes & risks of the Bonn climate talks
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2011 This is a guest post by Sebastian Duycks of the Adopt a Negotiator Project, currently tracking the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. For full coverage of the...
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Youth marry climate policy and science in Bonn
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 Marking the mid-way point between COP17 in Durban and COP18 in Doha next week, the climate talks taking place in Bonn over the next fortnight are a much more...
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Adopt a Negotiator network: Week 1 roundup from Bonn
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 For the past week our tireless team of Adopt a Negotiator trackers have been on the ground in Bonn, following the first session of UN climate talks for 2012....
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Adopt a Negotiator: Mixed legacy after the Bonn Climate Negotiations
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2011 This is a guest post by Sebastian Duycks of the Adopt a Negotiator Project, currently tracking the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. For full coverage of...
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Neva Frecheville: Rio+20 and how it might develop
Courtesy: Neva Frecheville, WWF UK This June, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is playing host to the world again when the UN rolls into town. Every country will be there for the UN Conference on Sustainable...
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UN seeks to build ‘Momentum for Change’ with new contest
How is your community, city or region taking climate action? Are you living with leaders or laggards? If it is the former, you might just know the perfect candidates for a new contest from the UN...
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Neva Frecheville: Beyond 2015 – what’s the future for development and the...
Courtesy: Neva Frecheville, WWF UK I’m still reflecting on what came out of the recent ‘Beyond 2015′ conference. It’s time for us to be brave and start looking beyond aid, looking beyond...
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Gearing up for Rio+20: Youth activism in full swing
Courtesy: Sébastien Duyck, 2012 Written by Sébastien Duyck, Adopt a Negotiator Rio+20 Fellow and board member of Rio+Twenties The official kick-off of the final round of Rio+20 negotiations is still...
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Rémi Parmentier: Are these the negotiations before the storm?
Courtesy: Remi Parmentier, 2012 Every morning since I’ve arrived in Rio four days ago I see from my appartment windows the mountains around the city covered by a thick layer of clouds, as if Mother...
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German chancellor Merkel warns ‘time is of the essence’ for climate
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2011 Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Monday that global warming will accelerate at a dramatic rate unless leaders reach a deal on limiting greenhouse gas...
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Fresh Air Brief news round-up for July 16th
The news clips below are except from our weekly blogger intelligence briefing, the Fresh Air Brief. Check out the full weekly brief here US responds to extreme summer weather with largest natural...
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Greenpeace, Oxfam urge south east Asian nations to unite for climate action
ASEAN member states must set aside political differences and stand united in pursuing climate change solutions to ensure that the region is able to cope with the looming environmental and humanitarian...
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Young Canadians challenge Peter Kent to climate issue debate
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2011 In response to the release of an internal government document suggesting Canadian youth were ‘not well informed’ about the United Nations climate change...
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Kelly Rigg: Where is the leadership on climate change?
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg Twice in recent months, I’ve heard speakers refer to a decisive moment in American history, a moment which shows our capacity to mobilize quickly in the face of an existential...
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In Bangkok meetings, can UNFCCC move past Bonn’s roadblocks?
Creative Commons: BBC World Service, 2011 Nine months on from what was billed as an ‘historic’ Durban Platform agreement, the UN climate change talks look in danger of sliding backwards again. If...
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Yvo De Boer: Climate change talks need greater clarity
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2011 The former head of the UN Climate talks (UNFCCC) believes confusion over the aim of the negotiations and the meaning of last year’s Durban Platform...
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Meet the six countries vying to host the Green Climate Fund
Creative Commons: Oxfam, 2011 Six countries – Germany, Poland and Switzerland – are in competition, along with Mexico, Namibia and the Republic of Korea, to host the Green Climate Fund. This issue...
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Australia signs up for second phase of Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011 Australia’s government says it is “ready to join” a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Climate Minister Greg Combet said Australia...
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New Zealand disappoints by refusing to re-commit to Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Sarah Marchildon, 2011 New Zealand’s government said Friday that it would not sign on for a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, a stance that angered environmentalists...
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Pa Ousman Jarju: An open letter to Obama from the world’s poorest countries
Courtesy: IISD Reporting Services, 2012 Dear President Obama, As the lead negotiator for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries(LDCs) in the United Nations climate change negotiations, I...
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Days before the UN climate talks, Qatari climate leader parties with Big Oil
Creative Commons: Moaksey, 2006 With less than two weeks before the next round of UN climate negotiations in Doha, guess who the president of those crucial climate talks was having a party with? Yes,...
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Partner Spotlight: Jennifer Morgan, World Resources Institute
Courtesy: World Resources Institute, 2012 Our partner interview this week is with World Resources Institute Climate and Energy Program Director Jennifer Morgan. With the next round of UN climate talks...
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And Action! How the climate movement is changing the world this week
Creative Commons: 350.org, 2012 The climate movement raised an incredible amount of momentum already this year, and this week it built even more. Our allies are continuing to face off against the big...
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President Obama under pressure to show commitment on climate change
President Obama speaking at UN Summit on Climate Change- Creative Commons: UN Photo/Marco Castro, 2009 Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change ahead of next...
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Climate reports forecast dire future, even with moderate action
Creative Commons: Kinumi Yoshida, 2011 In the absence of aggressive government policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, a number of leading organizations, including the United Nations, the...
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Kelly Rigg: It’s time for world leaders to take a walk in the woods
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg There’s a sign hanging at Muir Woods, a gorgeous redwood forest not far from San Francisco, which reads: In 1945, delegates from all over the world met in San Francisco to...
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CIDSE: Keeping faith in the climate talks
The buzz around the Copenhagen climate summit is a distant memory. Since December 2009, climate change has quickly moved down the priority list of many. In the midst of a deep global financial and...
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CAN: NGO’s call for Action, Ambition, Equity at UN Climate Talks
At the opening of the biggest climate talks of the year, international experts from NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network (CAN) said the Doha negotiations presented a turning point for world...
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UNFCCC: UN partners with Rockefeller Foundation to showcase women’s role in...
Creative Commons: Red Cross The Rockefeller Foundation today awarded a grant to the United Nations Climate Change secretariat to launch Momentum for Change: Women for Results, an initiative to...
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Youth activists bring energy, urgency to Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 When the US university student Anjali Appadurai lambasted diplomats from 194 countries for their lack of action and ambition at last year’s climate talks in...
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Russia backslides on 25 percent emission reduction goal in Doha
A draft presidential decree seen by RIA Novosti shows that Russia might be backing away from an unconditional 25% emission reduction target announced by Prime Minister Medvedev during the Rio+20...
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Greenhouse gas emissions rose three percent in 2011: UN Report
Creative Commons: Gregory Wake, 2008 The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it’s now unlikely that global warming can be limited...
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Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Shell, 2009 Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. “Thank God that our country is an oil...
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Kelly Rigg: Finding hope in the final hours of the Doha climate talks
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg “What gives you hope? This is a question I’m often asked these days. And what I’ve come to realize is that being hopeful, in the face of so much bad news about climate change, is...
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UK legislators: Doha talks confirmed only domestic action can drive global...
With the Doha summit now concluded, with only very modest achievement, there is growing consensus that a faster response toclimate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science...
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