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Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2008

  Meet Heather, International Youth Delegate from Canada

Heather is part of the Canadian Youth Delegation . She lives in Fort Smith , downstream from the Tar Sands. What inspired you to get involved in the fight against climate change? In Heather’s 2nd year of university, she had a professor who was a polar bear expert. She learned that...... [view]

Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2008

  Meet Marta, Polish volunteer at COP14

Marta shares her thoughts on the conference and particularly her disappointment in the lack of focus or acknowledgment given to the severe social consequences of climate change. Video message in Polish and English. ... [view]

Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 24, 2008

  Meet Milda, International Youth Delegate from Lithuania

Milda participated in the COP with the Friends of the Earth Network. She shares her thoughts on the role of youth at the conference and what first inspires her to join the fight against climate change. ... [view]

Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Meet Dinh, International Youth Delegate from Belgium

What inspired you to join the fight against climate change? Dinh’s Childhood gave him the inspiration. His family was political refugees from Vietnam to Belgium . A new page of his life started, and he had the opportunity to go to school where he was accepted. He...... [view]

Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Dustin, International Youth Delegate from Taiwan

Video message from Dustin (english)...... [view]

Posted By:  TheaWhitman
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Disappointment, inspiration; hope and fear

At 4AM this morning, as I stood in line bleary-eyed, waiting for a cancelled flight and reading a sobering but beautiful collection of tiny Vonnegut essays, one piece, Requiem , struck a chord with me. An excerpt: "The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony,...... [view]

Posted By:  cydnairobi
Posted On:  Dec 18, 2008

  Ten Weeks Later, Part 1

When the last gavel came down in Poznan this December, around 2:30 in the morning, it marked the end of my tenth week at the UN climate talks. From Nairobi to Bonn to Bali and back to Bonn I have tried to digest and process the enormity of it all - to understand the klimapolitik that inevitably...... [view]

Posted By:  gryphongirl8
Posted On:  Dec 14, 2008

  The End, and the Beginning

It has been an incredibly emotional and exhausting last few days here in Poznan. On Friday, the 14th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change concluded with very little progress. Developing countries pleaded into the wee hours of the night for a more rigorous outcome on...... [view]

Posted By:  gilbertg
Posted On:  Dec 12, 2008

  Canada wins the collosal fossil

Just moments ago, Canada won the collosal fossil of the year award. This annual award is given to the country that has done the most throughout the entire negotiations to stall progress on climate change. Our lovely Nick Nadeau, dressed as a hideous dinosaur, eagerly accepted his prize of...... [view]

Posted By:  gilbertg
Posted On:  Dec 12, 2008

  Losing Hope

Today is the last day of COP14 and the final high-level segment is wrapping up. As I type, ministers are meeting to hammer out the final unresolved issues, which include a levy on Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, the legal status of the Adaptation Fund, and the inclusion of carbon...... [view]

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