Sincerely Yours Earthly...

I t’s the first day at the much-anticipated United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) 23, also called ‘Pacific COP’ with regards to Fiji, the host country of this year’s summit. Fiji, an island state, has been grappling with the adverse impacts of climate change. Cyclone Winston ravaged Fiji in February 2016, taking the lives of 44 people, destroying homes, uprooting families, and inflicting serious damage on the nation’s sugar crop, a foundation of the Fijian economy 1 . Bonn, a historical city in Germany, serves as the host venue for the approximately 25,000 participants at COP this year. As always, the event is attended by national governments, UN specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and NGOs. A rather innovative concept of having to rename the former Green and Blue Zones as the Bonn zone and Bula zone (Bula means hello in the Fijian language)- A number of words from the language have been notably...

One final piece to close the year with .... Sincerely Yours Earthly The first week of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate change (COP21) was really an inspiring one with so many promising remarks from the most concerned world leaders and many of which have found noble places among famous climate change quotes. The zeal to seal a formidable deal this time around after 21 years ruled the air and like never before, everyone was geared and ready for the next step to saving humanity from a catastrophic future.  Witnessing the coming forward of the two giant nations (The U.S and China) responsible for the most greenhouse gas emission, it wasn’t just far off to conclude that there was a certainty of getting a deal in Paris.   Also, the obvious ambiance of urgency made the fact that the world was certainly at very a desperate moment in her survival history more profound. Le bouget, France was the gathering point and just like it has always been in the ...

Towards the Paris Agreement… a race for the nations The lead up to the next conference of parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) coming up later in the year in Paris is gradually gathering a level of momentum which on the scale of measure could be ascribed  as tilting towards been significantly ambitious with regards to the responses of countries to the submission of their respective Intended Nationally determined contributions (INDC). Following the  rather low spirited outcomes of the Lima negotiations and the optimistic expectations from the much anticipated Paris  negotiations in December, member countries to the UNFCCC have  agreed on a predefined course of action in the regards of  submitting nationally defined goals and targets  as their relative intended contributions towards the global agreement in Paris and in the obvious turn, the industrialized nations are excepted to lead the rest of the world in coming up with substantive and clea...