Filed under: Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, COP15, Copenhagen, UNFCC
It was super cold on Friday late evening. After the “climate shame” photo shoot I left Oksnehallen Hall in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro district – the alternative venue given to NGOs, civil society and observers by the Danish Foreign Minister in response to the restricted access at the Bella Center. It’s equipped with television links to the Bella Center until the end of COP15.
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Filed under: Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, COP15, Copenhagen, UNFCC
“I was at war in Vietnam” said very senior charismatic American Indian man based in California I met and greet on the bus heading into town center as I was telling him that I come from Bangkok and work for Greenpeace there. He is one of the key indigenous people networks that are actively participating in the COP15 and he had TV interview at Klima Forum.
Filed under: Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: bangkok, c2c, Coopenhagen, greenpeacebuzz, UNFCC
“Defendants have threatened and continue to threaten petitioners’ right to life and the sources of life, thus committing planetary malpractice resulting in inter-generational damages.
“They have broken about a dozen international agreements, for example by breaching their duty not to cause harm or their obligations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.” –Bangkok Climate Court Ruling
Here’s the complete story from Tcktcktck:
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Filed under: Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, climate, Copenhagen, greenpeacebuzz, Tcktcktck
Is causing climate change a crime?
Is submerging entire nations in sea water a crime? Flooding entire cities? Causing death, destruction and disease???!!???
Whoa! Did anyone actually do those things? (Yes.)
Or maybe the question is: has anyone actually let those things happen? (Yes.) Do we know who they are? (Yes.) Do they know what they’ve done? (Yes.) And are they still letting those things happen? (Yes). Knowingly? (Yes.) Willfully? (Hmmm….)
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Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephants, Greenpeace University
Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephant dung, elephants, Greenpeace University
Albert Lozada, Philippines
This is our last day in Ancient Siam, which means the last day of the Chang(e) Caravan project, which also means the last day with the elephants (Noooooooo!! But that’s okay, we promise to visit them when we go back to Thailand in the future). The Chang(e) Caravan ended with a press conference. Dealing with the elephants means dealing with dirty jobs, but apparently this job is not a big deal for Didit Wicaksono, Solar Generation Coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia – Indonesia and Albert Lozada, Solar Generation Coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia – Philippines.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: Chang, Chang[e], elephants, Greenpeace University
The second day was a big day for the Chang(e) Caravan project. In the morning, we marched from the entrance of Ancient Siam to the ’Bench of Public Appeals’. Before the long march, a small ceremonial activity was done with one of the elephants, Tong Dang, along with his mahout, to pay respect to the holy figures located in the entrance of Ancient Siam.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Greenpeace, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephants, Greenpeace University
Dear diary,
Throughout our trip, we met several amazing people—one of which was Dr. Alongkot Chukaew, the director of Thai Elephant Research and Conservation Fund (TREF). If you want to know anything about elephants—from their physical appearance to their behavior—he’s the best person to ask.
As it turns out, he has a very sentimental reason of why he’s enamored with the elephants. “I love elephants because of my mother”, he said. “When my mother was pregnant with me, she wanted to see elephants so badly so she went to a zoo far away from home. When I was young, she would always show me the pictures she had with the elephants”, he added while explaining to us how her mother kept on telling him of how important the elephants are as part of their belief as Thais.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand
We are Hani and Lalit, Greenpeace University SEA (GPU) graduates who were given the opportunity to join the Chang[e] Caravan project in Thailand. As recent graduates of GPU, learned a lot of things about constructing a campaign, and being part of the journey and activities was an opportunity we truly welcomed as it was a chance for us to apply what we learned from the 3 month program.
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Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, Greenpeace University
If you’re thinking Chang Cin Lok is a Chinese name, then you are…………..wrong!
Chang in Thailand means elephant, and Cin Lok in Indonesia is short for “cinta lokasi” which means love upon meeting each other and being in the same location at the same time. So in short, Chang Cin Lok illustrates 2 elephants participating in this Chang(e) Caravan journey. From hundreds of elephants in the Khao Yai National Park, 5 lucky elephants were selected to participate in the journey and we were so excited to meet them today!!!
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