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A Special CAN Daily
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is the Environmental NGO (ENGO) network in the UNFCCC. It has different daily activities such as the Fossil of the Day and the CAN Daily Meeting. To enter the daily 2.00pm meeting, you’ll need a sticker proving that you are a CAN member. They even have a “sticker check” which […]
read moreHigh Level Meeting on Climate Resilience
It was yesterday’s High Level Meeting on Climate Resilience that sparked my interest of wanting to understand climate change impacts on small islands, least developed countries (LDCs) and African Countries and the importance of Paris Agreement to these countries. “We are learning from our failures. Most of our initiatives come from our hard lessons. Politically and […]
read moreLong term solutions to end Indonesia’s forest fires and haze?
Since 1990s South East Asia has been facing the issue of trans-boundary haze and 2015 is considered among the worst ever. This is an inevitable phenomena as palm oil industry is booming and is anticipated to grow to $88 billion by 2022 and Indonesia is the main regional player of this industry. We have understand […]
read moreClimate Innovators: Empowering a Global Generation of Young People
Young people like me and you. What can we do and how can we be empowered to get ourselves more involved in climate-related initiatives and to bring forth such empowerment to intergenerational scale? Today, I have decided to attend this dialogue known as “Empowering a Global Generation of Young People”, a side event in COP21. […]
read moreA Skype session with Leonardo da Vinci High School, Potsdam, Germany
We “scuttle” our way to YOUNGO room to have a skype session with a group of high school youths from Germany! I panicked and became anxious as I stared at my brightly lit laptop screen. I did not know what to share. Thoughts that were running in my head. My experiences at COP21? I think […]
read moreAsians out of Asia – Amalen
Whilst at COP21, I had the pleasure of organizing the ASIAN meet up. I met so many different people from different walks of life and a variety of movements they are fighting for. Talking to these people has been eye opening and inspiring, to see the different problems other countries face and how they solve […]
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