Green MBA community members continue their efforts at the COP15 climate talks this week as world leaders start to arrive and the non-governmental organizations are gradually moved aside from the negotiations.
Lauralee Barbaria lobbies a Norwegian delegate at COP15
On behalf of the U.S. League of Women Voters, GMBA Program Director Lauralee Barbaria and Environmental Finance Center Executive Director Sarah Diefendorf are buttonholing delegates to ask for inclusionary language around gender and women’s rights in the final text of the agreement that is still being hammered out.
Globally, women are disproportionately victimized by climage change. Sarah writes more about the efforts to get women’s voices heard on Care2.com here.
Alumna Emily Courtney is involved with youth groups at the Conference. She reports:
The energy of the march on Saturday was electric. 100,000 people gathered from all over the world to demand a fair, ambitious and binding agreement. It is tragic that the media has chosen to focus on arrest figures rather than the thousands of people gathered to call for action. I saw no disruptive behavior, but several intimidating, preemptive police actions. On the way to the march I watched a group with “Don’t nuke the planet” gear was surrounded and searched by two SWAT vehicles full of police officers.
Sign in Copenhagen this weekend as 1000s protested
Check out beautiful photos of over 5,200 actions in 181 countries at 350.org.
