Author: David Tong

New Adopt a Negotiator: Where’s New Zealand’s climate plan? And who’s counting what?

New Zealand should have submitted its plan for shaking itself off its carbon addiction on Tuesday. It didn’t. Instead, our Government started to sell off new oil drilling rights on Monday and tried to cut down environmental reporting standards on Wednesday. 2015 marks the beginning of the end of the age of fossil fuels. Our major trading […]

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Coordinator, Fast for the Climate

The working group (a loose but very effective coalition of coalitions) behind the global Fast for the Climate campaign engaged me as campaign coordinator from 26 March 2015. Fast for the Climate is an extraordinary campaign, born out of Naderev ‘Yeb’ Saño’s fast during the Warsaw climate talks. I am honoured to have been offered such […]

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New Adopt a Negotiator: Bill McKibben fasts for the climate

Today, Bill McKibben of 350.org joins the worldwide Fast for the Climate movement’s365 day rolling climate fast from Lima to Paris. He won’t eat today to stand in solidarity with the victims of climate disaster. Coming in the wake of Super Cyclone Pam tearing at trail of devastation through the Pacific, Bill’s stand is particularly moving for me as […]

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New Adopt a Negotiator webinar: Writing about National Climate Commitments

On Monday night, Christian Teriete from TckTckTck, Denise Fontanilla of Jubilee South and I had a chat with Adopt a Negotiator’s Chris Wright about how to communicate the upcoming Intended Nationally Determined Commitments national plans for facing up to climate change from 2020 on. If there’s ever been a time to write about Climate Change, its […]

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