Watch This! NGO Newsletter #14 Member Spotlight – Tezulutlan Peoples’ Council

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Scroll down for French and Spanish In this edition Maximo Ba Tiul, the head of international relations, presents the Tezulutlan Peoples’ Council, a member organisation of the Network that represents indigenous communities in Guatemala.  Could you introduce your organisation? The Tezulutlan People’s Council (Consejo de Pueblos de Tezulutlan, CPT) is a network of Q’echi, Poqomchi’, …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #13: Green Climate Fund Board in Zambia – Key Outcomes

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Scroll down for French and Spanish Last week, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board held its last meeting before the upcoming climate talks in Paris. The Board approved its first eight projects in support of climate activities in developing countries, marking a major milestone in the evolution of the GCF. The projects were approved after …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #12: How the new Sustainable Development Agenda addresses Climate Change

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Scroll down for French and Spanish The newly agreed Sustainable Development Goals offer a unique opportunity for more and better-coordinated climate action vis-à-vis poverty reduction that goes beyond the UNFCCC. This Agenda for the first time acknowledges climate change as sustainable development challenge and the need for countries to deal with both hand in hand. …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #12: Recycling should be a part of Solid Waste Management NAMA

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Scroll down for French and Spanish The government of India is determined to deal with issues of waste mismanagement through development of a NAMA in solid waste management. However, proposals on the table focus on harming technologies, such as incineration of waste, and neglect the option of recycling as a more promising way to reduce …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #12: Empowering youth to achieve low emission schools in Mexico

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Scroll down for French and Spanish This articles presents efforts led in Mexico to create a youth empowerment platform to mitigate school´s Co2 emissions. The result was the creation of a NAMA for the school sector that was piloted in 4 states in Mexico and the creation of a model that allows this community to transform …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #12: The Green Climate Fund: About to finance its first projects and programs

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Scroll down for French and Spanish The Green Climate Fund is moving closer to financing its first projects and programs. If things are done the right way it could contribute effectively to global efforts to counter climate change, but first transparency in the decision making process needs to be guaranteed. In July, the tenth meeting …

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WATCH THIS! NGO Newsletter #7: Voluntary carbon market approves wind farm project on occupied land previously turned down by CDM

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The Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) has just registered a wind farm project in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. Earlier attempts by the project proponent to have the farm registered at the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) had backfired precisely because of its location in a politically controversial area.