Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development » Multimedia http://www.fdsd.org working to equip democracy to deliver sustainable development Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Democracy and climate change interviews http://www.fdsd.org/2010/04/democracy-and-climate-change-interviews/ http://www.fdsd.org/2010/04/democracy-and-climate-change-interviews/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:30:48 +0000 fdsd http://www.fdsd.org/?p=1034 The Copenhagen Climate Summit, held from 7th to 18th December 2009, was a milestone in the relationship between democracy and climate change. As government negotiators at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change tried to hammer out…

]]> The Copenhagen Climate Summit, held from 7th to 18th December 2009, was a milestone in the relationship between democracy and climate change. As government negotiators at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change tried to hammer out a deal, hundreds of events on every conceivable aspect of climate change took place on the margins in meeting spaces around the city.

FDSD’s Halina Ward was in Copenhagen during the Summit, and she took the opportunity to ask a range of people their views on the relationship between democracy and climate change.

You can download and listen to the interviews by clicking on the links below.

We will be incorporating some of the ideas from these interviews into our project on the Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change to 2100.

Teresa Fogelberg, Global Reporting Initiative, Netherlandsaudio download 1
3minutes, 12seconds; file size: 3.69MB

Professor Dr Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies audio download 1
2minutes, 3seconds; file size: 962KB

Baboucarr Mbye, Stay-Green Foundation, Gambia audio download 1
1minute, 19seconds; file size: 619KB

Steve, medical student from Leeds, UK audio download 1
4minutes, 32seconds; file size: 2.07MB

Hannah Reid, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK audio download 1
5minutes, 40seconds; file size: 2.59MB

Marco Baravalle, Venice audio download 1
2minutes, 41seconds; file size: 3.10MB

Member, Democratic Alternative, Sweden audio download 1
5minutes, 15seconds; file size: 2.40MB

Varaidzo Dongozi, Zimbabwe audio download 1
1minute, 52seconds; file size: 877KB

Jody Boehnert, UK audio download 1
5minutes, 24seconds; file size: 6.21MB

Bolivian Klimaforum Participant audio download 1
4minutes, 45seconds; file size: 5.47MB (NB: Interview recorded in Spanish)

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The Parliament has been working with WWF Scotland in a Climate Change Project which gave children an opportunity…

]]> The Scottish Children’s Parliament provides opportunities for children aged from 9 to 14 years old to engage in local, national and international democratic processes.

The Parliament has been working with WWF Scotland in a Climate Change Project which gave children an opportunity to learn more about Scotland’s changing climate in the light of the Climate Change Bill which was then going through the Scottish Parliament. The Bill received Royal Assent on 9th August 2009 and is now the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

We are pleased, with permission from the Scottish Children’s Parliament, to provide a link to a video produced as part of that project. In it, members of the Scottish Children’s Parliament give their views on climate change and how to tackle it. 

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