Category Archives: COP17

Tibetans advocate climate justice for Tibet at UN Climate conference

Panel discussion

TWA delegates representing ‘Tibet Third Pole’ for COP-17 meeting completes the first week at Durban

Tibet Third PoleDurban, December 5, 2011: Two members of TWA: Tenzin Woebum, head of Women’s Environment and Development Desk (WEDD) and Tenzin Dolma, Joint secretary, who represent …

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Nkoana-Mashabane hosts meeting ahead of COP17

Monday 5 September 2011 10:50

SABC

International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane is meeting a host of groups, including civil society to discuss climate change. The meeting forms part of her consultations with groups ahead of the forthcoming United Nations Climate …

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Hope from Cancún: now the hard work to make it legally binding in Durban

Important progress, including recognition of ‘loss and damage’, but much still to do at climate talks in South Africa in 2011

From IRIN, part of the Guardian Development Network
guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 December 2010 17.04 GMT

A new deal on …

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Countdown To Durban Climate Talks

Written by: BuaNews
August 22, 2011

The countdown to this year’s United Nations Climate summit in Durban has begun, with exactly 100 days left before delegates descend on the city for one of the biggest gatherings on climate change in …

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Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on South Africa’s level of preparedness on COP17/CMP7 in Durban

Today marks exactly 117 DAYS before the start of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting …

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