Third meeting of Climate Fund’s design committee
ends with roadmap to Durban

The third meeting of the Transitional Committee to design the Green Climate Fund met in Geneva from the 11th -13th September and ended with the adoption of a roadmap for the adoption of a draft report for the 17th meeting of the COP in Durban.

Developing countries submit document for Green
Fund establishment at second meeting of Transitional Committee.

Panama City, 1 October 2011,(Meena Raman) – A group of 13 developing countries formally tabled a document on the operational elements for the establishment of the Green Climate Fund on the final day of the meeting on 14 July 2011 of the 2nd meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) in Tokyo, to design the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

1 October 2011
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First meeting of the Technology Executive
Committee ends with compromise and progress on modalities and procedures

The first meeting of the Technology Executive Committee took place in Bonn from 1st-3rd September and wrestled with the issue of who would be chair and vice-chair of the Committee. It also saw an intense exchange on the issue of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the relationship of the TEC to the Climate Technology Centre (CTCN). The meeting also made progress on elaborating the modalities and procedures of the Committee.

August 17, 2011
Bangkok, Thailand

We, 52 women and men from 18 countries Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China and Hongkong SAR,India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Spain,Thailand, Timor Leste, USA, and Vietnam  and representing peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk,indigenous peoples, workers, women, youth and students, refugees and stateless persons, academia,environmental and support NGOs and networks met for the ‘Promoting a Transformative Agenda forSustainable Development: A Strategy Workshop on Rio+20’ on August 15?17, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.

JULY 7, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

QUEZON CITY, Philippines — It is oft said that a revolution is a “festival of the oppressed.” Although no guns were fired at this time, it was certainly a festival of the oppressed as some 3,000 participants from different countries concluded the five-day International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRIS) with a powerful message to all peoples of the world: “We may be different in colour, but our hearts and blood are the same. We are one in the struggle for a better world.”