If there are any journos following this blog, and keen to get African perspectives on the direction of the COP, please contact Michelle Maynard (m_1_maynard@yahoo.co.uk, +2778 227 6440), Augustine Njamnshi (abnjamnshi@yahoo.com), Mithika Mwenda (mwemithika@yahoo.com), all of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance — or Tetteh Homeku of Third World Network (thormeku@yahoo.com, +2773 5462 031).
About
South African civil society is responding to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 17, in Durban (28 Nov – 9 Dec).
This blog provides updates on civil society actions. The official SA civil society/COP17 blog is at www.c17.org.za.
Note: the official COP is closed to the general public. Events open to the general public are listed here.About Durban
Civil society
Climate conference news
Decoding the COPs
Key civil society events at COP17
Key civil society events to support at COP17:- 3 Dec: The march on the Global Day of Action
- Diakonia Centre Calendar: Faith community events open to the public at the Diakonia Centre (20 Diakonia Avenue), 20 mins walk from the ICC.
- Civil society events at Howard College - How to get there - Campus map
- Occupy COP 17 on Facebook
- More public events...
-
Recent Posts
- UNEP press release: Climate Talks End With Hope for a New More Comprehensive Legally-Binding Agreement
- COP 17 ends: Earth, and Africa, still headed for disaster
- a ‘huddle’ to save planet?
- NY Times: climate change too big for current architecture
- Closing plenaries?
- ‘The Daily Tck: 10 December 2011 at 2pm’
- Waiting
- Final hours at COP 17, last chance for Earth?
Meta
COP17 – climate change talks in Durban 2011 · Civil society perspectives on the UNFCCC COP 17 climate negotiations in Durban, December 2011
I want to help COP 17 I have a idea towords going 100 % green,and I can creat jobs for 5 mil poeple just by implementing a simple method…
SALCIAH ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS NON
PROFIT ORGANISATION
in South Africa Pretoria Mabopane an
environmental oriantated organisation
has initiated a green jobs program based om
adopting wetlands & mountain ecosystem
as means towards addresing global warming
& climate change for the benefit of present
& future generations though we find it difficult