Get your teeth into development issues. Opinion and comment from Progressio

  I thought I’d start blogging about logging! That’s probably the worst and only gag I’m going to make this time. A few people have been asking how the latest action (to MEPs) fits with the…
Daniel Hale
28/06/2010 – 12:47
Reading this online? Thanks. You can be sure that no trees have been hurt in the making of this blog. Call me a tree hugger? Well if you must. I’m definitely not a hippy but I have been taken aback,…
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16/04/2010 – 14:50
Soon after January 12th, I found myself crossing the border into Haiti before dawn, in the midst of a vast convoy of lorries carrying relief supplies. It is just a two hour drive from the border to…
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12/03/2010 – 15:45
“We understand the value of water as an essential liquid for life. This is why we’re working hard to care for it, to care for our mountains and to protect it as part of our culture. We need…
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13/12/2009 – 12:27
As the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen begin to hot up, Jo Barrett, Progressio Press Officer extraordinaire and myself are beginning our long train journey to Copenhagen to join our…
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10/12/2009 – 15:09
Today I arrived at work to see John Vidal’s excellent expose on the complex punctuation, backroom power games, bureaucracy and language of the UN’s climate change negotiations in the Guardian Weekend…
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16/11/2009 – 15:57
Listening to a speech at the Conservative party conference this week, I found myself sitting behind Simon Hoggart, the Guardian’s political sketchwriter. He appeared for the most part to be quite…
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08/11/2009 – 16:50
The Fira Gran Via conference centre is little more than a giant airport hanger with moveable walls – a sprawling space that can be carved up according to the needs of each particular conference….
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06/11/2009 – 16:33
The big frustrating aspect around the negotiations today is high-level politicians disussing a ‘politically-binding’ agreement at Copenhagen as opposed to a ‘legally-binding’ agreement. Kevin Grandia…
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06/11/2009 – 16:03
With just a month to go until vital change negotiations in Copenhagen, Progressio staff and partner representatives are observing the “intersessional” meeting of the UNFCCC in Barcelona – the last…
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03/11/2009 – 16:40