Bureaucrats respond to an emergency
Mariel and I came to Bonn last week to see what a bureaucracy in crisis looks like. The bureaucracy in question is the Clean Development Mechanism, the UN agency in charge of award...
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Actualización de GAIA sobre la campaña de desechos y el clima
Hola amigos, Me dirijo a ustedes para darles una actualización sobre lo que GAIA ha estado trabajando y otros desarrollos en el mundo de los residuos y la política climática en ...
GAIA update on the waste and climate campaign
Here is an update on what GAIA has been up to and other developments in the world of waste and climate policy over the last three months. INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS: Since the Cope...
New Attention to CDM Projects
Interesting news coming out of the CDM these days. The Executive Board is cracking down hard on projects that are of dubious “additionality” – meaning that they proba...
KKPKP at NOW’10 (New Options for the World)
On Jan 29th, 2010, members of the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) were invited to speak at NOW’10 (New Options for the World) – a three-day seminar series at ...
Jairam Ramesh Doesn’t Get It
“So far, most of the negotiation has focused on mitigation. Because mitigation means technology, you see, and adaptation involves people.” That was the statement of India’s M...
Teaching COP15 Delegates How to Recycle
[this is a translation into English of an earlier post from Lucia about the recyclers action in the Bella Center] Among so many suits, ties and Colgate smiles, as if nothing was ha...
entre el microfono y la penumbra*: nuestro evento paralelo y la solidaridad con los detenidos
El dia de ayer 12/12 comenzo con una soleada jornada de evaluacion matinal sobre toda la semana de trabajo intenso que la delegacion global de recicladores realizo de sabado a saba...
naciones unidas se vistio de carton-los recicladores enseñaron a separar los residuos!
Entre tanto traje, corbata, sonrisa kolynos como si nada pasara y el mundo tuviera todavia otro mundo remplazable que lo estuviese aguardando, los recicladores de india y america l...