FIELD staff are attending the climate change negotiations in Bonn from 1-12 June, which are preparing the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December. In Copenhagen, countries will be expected to agree on new greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to replace the Kyoto Protocol targets, which are expiring.
A new vacancy for a Staff Lawyer is now open at FIELD. The closing date for applications is June 22, 2009. For more information on the job description, general terms and application procedure please see our vacancy page.
FIELD's new briefing note entitled ‘An implementing agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - the US proposal and experience with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea' is now available in PDF.
From 20-24 April, 2009, the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change took place in Anchorage, Alaska. FIELD provided strategic advice on how to bring the concerns of indigenous groups into the climate change negotiations.
Countries are meeting this month in Germany to help decide a new framework to address climate change. But for the most vulnerable nations the talks are far from fair. Read about the difficulties faced by vulnerable developing countries, such as small island states, in the UNFCCC negotiations (by FIELD and IIED).
Lorna
joined FIELD as an intern in January 2009. This was already Lorna's
second internship in London - before this, she had worked for six
months for the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew. There, Lorna worked on
researching the Convention on Biodiversity and Access and Benefit
Sharing (ABS) Agreements.
Rebecca Kramer, American, joined FIELD as an intern in January 2009.
With a background in Marine Biology and Law, Rebecca had been working
in environmental matters for many years, especially within the marine
and wildlife area.
Will joined FIELD in September 2008 to gain experience in international environmental law, and to gain a greater understanding of working in an NGO environment.
"Field has been an incredible experience for me and I have worked on some extremely interesting projects."