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View here photos taken during COP17 in Durban : Carlos Vargas CLAC-Carbon markets Participants in a booth COP17 Carbon markets COP17 Carbon markets Director of ICCO-Carbon markets Chief Adam at the Fairtrade cocktail Fairtrade

COP17 update – View of a Fairtrade farmer at the negotiations

6 December 2011 – Tomy Matthews, from smallholder co-operative Fairtrade Alliance Kerala in India, has been at the COP17 in Durban. After a packed first week of events and meetings, he shares his thoughts and insights on the climate change conference. Being a Fairtrade producer at the COP17 has been interesting, for example last week I was in the China Pavillion where the buzz word is PRA and RRA. These are...

COP17 update – Crunch time and not getting close to an agreement

9 December 2011 – I recently came back from Durban as I was participating as an NGO delegate at COP17. As climate change and COP17 is in my mind and I know the conference is shortly coming to an end, I decided to check major news channels to see what they are saying about the COP – only to find out that nothing is being said. It turns out that the Euro crisis summit in Brussels is the major headline across...

Press Conference with Yvo DeBoer

Date: 4th December 2011