Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io Steve and Naomi from Rising Tide reporting from Bolivia Some countries around the world are feeling the effects of climate change more than others, yet most of us are unaware of these struggles. Australia is doing relatively well coping with the current effects of climate change for now, at [...]

This is the final post from Pablo and Taegen at the Cochabamba conference. Many thanks to them for their thorough updates from this globally important event. They will be back May 2 or 3 but are now heading to the jungle for some r & r. The People’s Agreement The conference wound up today on [...]

Day 3We realised that we have so far neglected to paint a picture of what exactly are the activities underway at this conference and for this, dear readers, we apologise and rectify forthwith. First of all, there are the seventeen working groups that we mentioned in our first post, each preparing statements and recommendations which [...]

“We are gathered here because the so-called developed countries didn’t meet their obligation of establishing substantial commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen. If those countries had respected the Kyoto Protocol and had agreed to substantially reduce the emissions inside their borders, this conference would not be necessary.” – Evo Morales, 20 April 2010 [...]

This strangely familiar conference delegate was happy to have finally received his accreditation after spending day 1 of the conference standing in queues. Day 1 Today the conference began. Unfortunately it was marked by a registration process that seemed to have been designed by the love child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Franz Kafka. Let’s [...]

Welcome to the first edition of the five part series reporting back for YCAN from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change here in Cochabamba, Bolivia. These diary entries are designed to give you an on-the-ground account of what is happening at this historic event. First we have to say how pleased we are to [...]