Authors: Nyla Sarwar & Sabrina Chesterman As the climate demonstrators started to pack away their banners and the Christmas shoppers descended on a freezing Copenhagen (-7C), over 100 leaders and statesmen headed back to their various countries. Many are left to now ponder about what has actually been achieved, except a huge carbon footprint created [...]

Author: Nyla Sarwar The high level segment of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP 15) opened this morning, with over 110 heads of State arriving at the Bella Centre – adding political pressure to finalise an agreement in the remaining 3 days of the conference. Australian Minister for Climate Change & Water, Penny Wong, made [...]

Author: Nyla Sarwar An ambitious and positive draft text presented at the UN climate summit has failed to impress developing countries, who argue that more finance is needed to support their low carbon development and adaptation in some of the most vulnerable nations. The so-called “long-term action plan text” believed to be much more positive [...]