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Reflections from the YFoEE AGM in Austria
Juta Kruusmäe is participating in the YFoEE annual meeting in Austria. These are her reflections after the first day. It was the first day of AGM for me, but for many it was the second. A little place in Austria called Kritzendorf has greeted me well with it’s beautiful colourful family houses and hills of …
Our past events
Young Friends of the Earth Europe organises exciting youth events and exchanges every year, and has been doing so for a number of years: from annual activist summer camps across Europe to a series of climate events around the UN climate talks, actively engaging youth with the political agenda and demanding climate justice. We have …
7 Climate Mythbusters
Every week in the run-up to the COP21 in Paris, we’re debunking a common myth on how to solve the climate crisis. Are India and China really all to blame? Are techno fixes like carbon capture and storage the answer? Find out as we count down to Paris and push for climate justice. Climate myth #1: …
What can we expect at Paris, and what’s next?
What’s at stake in Paris? This year’s negotiations (COP21) will take place in Paris, between November 30 and December 11. The deadline for the AWG-ADP (established in Durban in 2011) to complete its work was set to be by 2015 latest, hence the big hype around Paris – same process as with the Bali Action …
The road to Paris – how did we get here?
Brief history of the UNFCCC In 1992 the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro where a legally non-binding international treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed. The main aim of the treaty was to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent …