Ethiopia: Part 2
Hi or tadiyass (hello in Ethiopia’s national language of Amharic) from here in Addis Ababa.
Today is the first day of the Climate Change and Development in Africa Conference, held...
Ethiopia: Part 1
Hej again from here in Stockholm, Sweden.
This week I will be documenting the first part of my trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, including attending the First Climate Change and Development in Africa...
More from Stockholm, Sweden!
Hej hej! Hur mår du?
Valkommen back to my blog from here in Stockholm, Sweden. Last week I flew to Berlin and met with the non-profit organization Transparency International. This week, I’ll be...
Combining Anthropology and Law: Industrial Development Impact Assessments in the Arctic
The last few months, and especially the past six weeks, seem to have passed in the blink of an eye. The perpetual darkness and late seasonal snowfall, combined with conferences to be attended, spoken at, and organized, as well...
@COP17: Gaining Perspective
COP17 is over, delegates are back home and analysts are starting to publish their thoughts on the Durban outcome. So what is left for me is to wrap up my Durban blog with a few comments on the COP17 results.
The conference ended in the...
@COP17: The Non-Ending of COP17
It is Saturday, almost lunch time, and it looks like the negotiations might keep going for a while. Here is a short run-down of the events since yesterday.
When I entered the ICC yesterday morning, it felt like ‘the air had gone out’ of...
@COP17: Is this the Day of the Deal?
It’s Friday morning, the last day of COP17 (let’s ignore voices suggesting that this event could last till Monday). Ministers and Heads of State have disappeared in the President’s Indaba yesterday and haven’t been seen since. The big question of...
@COP17: Occupy COP17 – Nobody Listened But the Media
As a student of Global Governance I was intrigued to observe the Occupy COP17 protest about an hour ago here in the ICC in Durban. I could start talking about non-sate actors, ideational power and transnational networks...
@COP17: Being New To The Game – Navigating My First COP
Today I am not writing about the uncertain future of the paltry global climate regime, but about the mysterious business of doing fieldwork at a mega-conference like COP17.
It is weird when you start planning to attend a major...
@COP17: Canada, You Are Not Welcome Here!
Today's ECO Newsletter, produced by the environmental NGOs present at COP17 in Durban, is sending an interesting message to Canada: the federal government better stay away from Durban given its intention to formally withdraw from the Kyoto...
