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Youths of COP: Frances Mills
Youths of COP: A brief Q&A with people met at COP23. Q: Please tell me about yourself. A: I just finished studying Ocean Sciences at University of Liverpool this June. I’ve been interested in environmental problems from a young age but didn’t properly engage in environmental actions until I visited India for a summer program […]
read moreYouths of COY: Raisa Bashar
Youths of COY: A brief Q&A with people met at COY13. Q: Please tell me about yourself A: I am a Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science and Management at the prestigious North South University of Bangladesh. I have been teaching from when I was 16 and today, 10 years later I still feel […]
read moreYouths of COP: Nagisa Yoshioka
Youths of COP: A brief Q&A with people met at COP23. Q: Please tell me about yourself. A: I am Nagisa, the former representative of Climate Youth Japan. In 2012, I attended in COP18 and it was my first time to be involved in world youth climate activities. Trough the experience of COP, I […]
read moreREDD+ for who?
REDD+ is an initiative borne out of the Bali Action Plan, under the mitigation section, which seeks countries to reduce emissions from forest degradation and deforestation on top of “fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks.” REDD+ projects are funded by the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and the […]
read moreMake Climate Policy a Catch Phrase
With the intention to upskill #MYD members and the public, this training series was conducted by the Third World Network (TWN) to share their experiences and knowledge on comprehending and translating climate policy language. The session also aimed to educate on international agreement drafting. Briefly, TWN is a non-profit organisation that tracks climate negotiations and […]
read moreAre we still playing the climate blame game?
[Updated on 30 December] The annual UN climate change conference has officially ended and it’s been over than a month. COP23 was deemed as a technical COP, which obviously as the name suggested, technically prepared for the next political COP in 2018. Why 2018? This is the year for the development of the rulebook (or […]
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