Tom Youngman

Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.
December 11
“ Responsibly, we cannot go along with this - this would mean we went along with a situation that my president has termed ‘ecocide and genocide’. Pablo Solon, leader of the Bolivian delegation to the COP16 climate conference in Cancun, on the deal that has recently been reached. He noted of the deal: “We’re talking about a [combined] reduction in emissions of 13-16%, and what this means is an increase of more than 4C.”

(Source: BBC)
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“ There’s enough in it that we can work towards next year’s meeting in South Africa to get a legally binding agreement there. Tara Rao, senior policy advisor at WWF, on the deal reached at COP16 climate conference in Cancun. Something tells me that a full deal will be put off for a long time.

(Source: BBC)
Tags: #COP16 #environmentalism #opinion #global politics #Environment

December 9
World Bank to fund carbon markets in developing nations

The World Bank is going it alone, preempting the failure of the COP16 climate conference in Cancún, and providing help for developing nations in setting up carbon markets. Carbon markets have widely been a failure in Europe as they are not stringent enough, but in this case this will hopefully allowing developing nations extra power to prevent exploitation from multinational corporations operating within their sovereignty. The World Bank has funded some pretty unpleasant fossil fuel projects in the past, so it’s good to see something positive coming from them.
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