Adopt a Negotiator is a blog and media team that the Global Call for Climate Action runs to cover the UN climate negotiations. Each year, they select around ten young climate communicators from over 1,500 applicants from around the world to track their countries’ negotiators, give us a stack of bold “Negotiator Tracker” t-shirts, train […]
Read more "Fellow at Adopt a Negotiator"The Herald’s Element magazine ran my column from inside the Warsaw climate talks: Adopt a Negotiator Fellow and Kiwi David Tong reports from the climate talks in Warsaw, Poland: Earlier this month, Poland celebrated National Independence Day. The United Nations climate Secretariat warned everyone here in Warsaw attending the climate talks to be careful, because […]
Read more "In the Herald: UN Climate talks: Rioting outside, hunger strikes inside"I enjoy taking photos of interesting people – and I think the international climate movement brims with fascinating, diverse characters. In 2013, I worked closely with members of UKYCC from the launch of Humans of the UN Climate Talks, becoming one of the main photographers. Amongst others, I photographed UN General Assembly president John Ashe, UNDP […]
Read more "Photographer, Climate Peoples and Humans of the UN Climate Talks"Recently the Ministry for Primary Industries released a paper for public consultation entitled “Animal Welfare Matters”, designed to provide an overview of the future direction of animal welfare standards in New Zealand. Its release coincides with a review of the existing Animal Welfare Act 1999which will consider what changes in the Act are necessary to […]
Read more "In LawNews: ‘The law weighs in on animal welfare matters’"The New Zealand Herald ran an article about my Adopt a Negotiator fellowship. Unfortunately, it’s hardcopy only not online: Photo thanks to Zeb Stone of Oxfam NZ.
Read more "Herald article: ‘Keeping a Weather Eye on the UN Climate Talks’"P3 Foundation’s Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute has just opened applications for the UN climate talks in Warsaw in November. Going to the Durban round of talks was a stunning experience. I can’t recommend applying highly enough.
Read more "UN climate talks"It was great to talk to Radio New Zealand on behalf of the Human Rights Lawyers Association: A human rights lawyer is calling on iwi to be alert to proposed changes to the legislation covering the Exclusive Economic Zone – the area of sea from 12 to 200 nautical miles offshore. Ministers want the Environmental […]
Read more "Radio New Zealand interview on offshore oil exploration"So it looks like I’m doing the Big Sleepout. How’d that happen? More seriously: P3 Foundation campaigns to end poverty in the Asia Pacific, so it was pretty natural for me to accept the invitation to help end one of the most extreme signs of poverty in Central Auckland, where I live. Please donate to […]
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