We are now in week 2 of a 3 week block of virtual sessions for our UN Rep work at the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, actual negotiations on implementing the Paris Agreement to keep global warming to below 1.5C are not taking place right now.
2020 has seen the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations put on hold. The Conference of the Parties (COP) Climate Summit was postponed from December 2020 to November 2021 while many countries struggled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and all its short- and long-term repercussions. This decision was made very...
Joan Evers (AWC Madrid), a member of the FAWCO Environment Team, attended COP25 and interviewed Dr. Lara Lazaro, a Spanish environmental economist. You can read the interview here.
Spain’s capital hosting this meeting was a last-minute change. Santiago, Chile had been scheduled to welcome the world’s climate delegates until unrest in the country caused the Chilean President to back out. And even Chile hosting the event was not the original plan as Brazil had been first slated to do so, but also backed...
Photo by IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth
By UN Rep Ayuska Motha
The COP25 negotiations finally ended 44 hours later than they were scheduled to and it is a time to take a look at what has been accomplished. From the big picture perspective, many are disappointed since this was supposed to be a COP of action. Hopes were high...
By UN Rep Ayuska Motha
December 14th: The past two weeks attending COP25, I have been waiting for decisions to be made in order to report on it. But even now as I write from back home, it is not over. During the first week, negotiators from all the different countries were not able to come to an agreement on...