Ce qui devait être d'après la présidence marocaine de la COP22 une « marche vers l'avenir » n'aura finalement été qu'un pas timide vers demain.
En effet, les deux semaine de négociations sur l'application concrète de l'Accord de Paris ont abouti à un résultat sans déception mais aussi sans enthousiasme.
By Kennedy Graham MP, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Humanity has woken, after a quarter-century of fitful slumber, to the fact of climate change. Dangerous climate change.
Find out how you can participate and follow the news from COP21 in Paris over the next two weeks. Our Global Greens team will be providing updates by email, facebook and website plus webinars as these crucial negotiations take place between now and 12 December.
The evidence of climate change is overwhelming around the continent. African states are requested to go with one voice and one position to the UN’s Conference on Climate Change in Paris, which is to demand climate justice for the African people. (In English and Spanish)
La evidencia del cambio climático es abrumadora en todo el continente. Se espera que los Estados Africanos acudan a la conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el cambio climático en Paris este diciembre con una sola voz y una sola postura, que es la de exigir justicia climática para los habitantes de su continente.
As G7 leaders meet in Schloss Elmau in Germany this weekend, we, the representatives of Green Parties from participating countries (EU, UK, France, US, Canada, Italy, Japan & Germany), call upon the global leaders to urgently address the climate challenge with more ambition than they have shown so far, especially in view of the upcoming Paris Climate Summit #
Workshops held by India's Uttarakhand Parivartan Party as part of the Global Greens climate campaign in September produced the 'Dehradun Resolution on Climate Change' appealing to the world's leadership to commit itself to climate change mitigation. Amongst other things the resolution says: the welfare of living beings has to be strengthened as part and parcel of the ecological system; there has to be a balance between consumption and production; it is very important not to haphazardly withdraw energy subsidies in developing countries; and western societies have to take a lead in reducing consumption.
Climate change adds new complexity to the interdependency between migration and the environment. Rwanda, Kenya and other African countries have experienced dramatic impacts from drought and famine leading to environmental migration in the last decade. Environmental migration is a transnational issue that requires structured dialogue between Africa and Europe and a coherent policy on migration and climate change including investment in the Green Climate Fund.
The Australian Greens have employed innovative strategies to deliver concrete outcomes on climate change. The new challenge posed by Tony Abbott's ultra-conservative Liberal Party government is the latest opportunity to affirm the power of data-driven grassroots campaigning and smart negotiation in parliament.