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By: Greenpeace Canada weblogs » Blog Archive » The COP hop (Canada jumps back from Kyoto)…

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:30:16 +0000

[...] Last night I went with the huuuuge Canadian Youth Delegation and met with the co-chairs and negotiators from the Canadian Government. These officials work for Environment Canada and Foreign Affairs and are in a tight position – having to do what the Conservative government tells them. Canada used to lead the climate negotiations forward and now we are on the brink of becoming the next Australia. Our emissions are rising, our government doesn’t care and it’s going to be the poor of the world who suffer most from this. They are the most likley to depend on agriculture, or live in marginal areas where droughts, floods or cyclones are worse. A person living in Uganda for example, is unlikly to get any assitance when droughts, which are getting worse because of global warming, threaten their livelyhood or life. [...]

By: Youth Head to Nairobi for COP-12/MOP-2 at It’s Getting Hot In Here

Youth Head to Nairobi for COP-12/MOP-2 at It’s Getting Hot In Here — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:41:09 +0000

[...] The movement grows, like a storm gathering force. Almost one year after over 500 youth converged in Montreal for the 11th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, a team of young Canadian and American climate activists are preparing to depart for Nairobi, Kenya, to COP12/MOP2, committed to representing the youth of North America who need their voices heard in the world. [...]