My name is Larissa, and I was a SustainUS Agent of Change at the 59th Comission on Status of Women, or Beijing+20. I am Brazilian and I have been living in the USA for seven months. I used to underestimate my first language, Portuguese, because many opportunities I had such...
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This piece is cross-posted from Truth-Out. At the COP20 United Nations climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru this week, it’s clear that the Canadian government is representing Canadians when making decisions – if by Canadians, one means fossil fuel companies, that is. Anyone who’s never visited the country might assume…
This piece was written by COP20 delegates Geoffrey Supran and Ploy Achakulwisut for Grist. LIMA, Peru — Though fossil fuel companies may wave their hands dismissively at the divestment movement, some nervous actions of late show more concern than they let on. Consider this curious incident here in Lima, as the…
This piece is cross-posted from WeArePowerShift. As youth delegates from SustainUS, we work to represent the youth of the US climate justice movement within the United Nations’ debates on climate change. In this capacity, we travel to the UN climate change negotiations every year. There, we aim to make change…