by pennyurquhart | Mar 24, 2013 | climate justice
Thursday was Human Rights Day in South Africa. We had a lot to think about. Like, how much progress can we truly say we have made in the country since 1994, when violence towards women continues at horrific levels? When lesbians are raped and murdered as...
by pennyurquhart | Apr 21, 2012 | community-based adaptation
Sitting in Hanoi at the 6th International conference on Community-based Adaptation, I am struck by how advanced the responses to climate change in Vietnam seem to be. The government has many plans and strategies, NGOs are doing solid work, and communities –...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 3, 2011 | environment
“Climate change kills me”. This was the stark statement on a banner held aloft by one of the marchers in the Global Day of Action protest that filled the streets of Durban today. On the banner, a photo of a child with large, haunting eyes. Marshalls kept...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 1, 2011 | environment
“In the negotiations, people are reading the same old statements that we have heard for two years” said Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at IIED, at a SADC networking dinner in Durban last night. As he spoke, my heart sank – it was back, that wave of...
by pennyurquhart | Nov 28, 2011 | Africa, climate justice, environment
The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP17 this time around – starts today, and Durban is already bursting at the seams. Mainstream accommodation is long since claimed, and one small guest house has had over 200 enquiries for two days in...
