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Mattea Mrkusic: Opinion: Pacific Voices on Climate Displacement

We’re bleary-eyed, brandishing banners in the early morning light. Rae Bainteiti, a 25-year-old youth delegate from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, jokes that this might be the first and last winter he’ll wear a puffer jacket in the Parisian cold. Stepping towards the press encircling our demonstration, he addresses the crowd in a suddenly serious tone.  “Our lives,” he says, “are not negotiable.” As true as that may be, in the plenary rooms beyond, ministers are putting brackets around his future.

Posted on December 8, 2015 and filed under UN Climate Talks 2015, Institute Updates.

Ben Abraham: Opinion: 'Consensus Reached On Scaling Up Financing Through Increased Cafeteria Sales'

Today, our ADP 2.11 delegate Ben Abraham was published in ECO, the Climate Action Network newsletter at the UN climate negotiations.  He shared his thoughts on this Bonn session's exclusion of civil society.  Read the full text of his satirical piece below - and see the original article here.