The Mexican Government arranged offsetting the emissions derived from the COP16/CMP6 activities for all Government and UN Delegates, but not for Civil Society Organizations, as Yale University. Following with F&ES principles, and committed with sustainability, the Yale delegation to will offset it emissions trough a project in the Mexican State of Oaxaca, that
"promotes the sustainable management of natural resources, increasing biomass and forest coverage that will contribute to conservation, improvement and maintenance of biodiversity, promotion of biological corridors, soil conservation, increased water quantity and quality, and climate change mitigation."
The offset include air transportation from New York City Airports, ground transportation and other activities while in Cancun.
More info about the project: http://pronatura.org.mx/Calculadora2010COP/archivos/SAO%20General.pdf…
Climate Change is again attracting public attention as the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change is getting closer. F&ES students from the International Conferences and Organizations, Environmental Diplomacy Practicum, and Environmental Protection Clinic classes will participate in the COP16 from November 27th to December 11th, 2010 to be held in Cancun, Mexico, with the objective of acquiring experience in the international climate change negotiation process.
During the semester the classes hosted guest speakers to share the last updates in climate science and in the international climate negotiations, such as Gary Yohe, IPCC leading author, Lumumba Di-Aping, former spoke person for the G-77 plus China the last year, and Crispine Gregoire, permanent representative from Dominica to the UN. There was also a mock negotiation to resemble…
“There is nothing wrong with being helped to go on living. And that is what this[climate change] issue is all about,” stated a senior official from the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia. I am at a ministerial gathering of 28 nations of the Cartagena Group/Dialogue for Progressive Action convening in the beautiful island of Bandos in the Republic of Maldives. The participants are from Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Samoa, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Uruguay, UK and the European Commission. The Cartagena Group/Dialogue is an informal space, open to all countries that want ambitious and comprehensive outcomes in the UNFCCC, and that are committed, domestically to becoming or remaining low carbon…
