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Antonio La Viña, who led the REDD-plus negotiations for Copenhagen, shares some personal reflections in ‘Ways Forward after Copenhagen: Reflections on the Climate Change Negotiating Processes by the REDD-plus Facilitator’

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Thursday 25th February 2010 – 76 Portland Place, London.  The FIELD Panel Discussion on The Road to Mexico COP 16 was a packed event with a candid and lively debate on some of the most pressing and gritty issues facing the climate community this year.

Watch FIELD founders in an interview by Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby in five unique videos. Learn about the early days of FIELD and how it was created. Find out why environmental law matters and why the Chernobyl accident was important in this context. How is ethics relevant to environmental law? - Watch the videos and find out.

From environmental guidelines in oil and gas contracts in Kazakhstan to supporting Pacific Island States in the climate change negotiations. Visit our new map of the world and explore the diverse projects that FIELD has been working on lately.

4 December 2009 – FIELD is disappointed at the lack of progress in the international climate change negotiations and the failure of developed countries to commit to ambitious emissions cuts. FIELD staff are working with small island states, least developed countries and other developing countries at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

20 October, 2009 - FIELD warns that international legal frameworks are unprepared to deal with people displaced by climate change. Although estimates vary widely as to how many climate exiles can be expected, it is clear that the international community needs to prepare for the likelihood that some small island countries and low-lying territories will be lost in the future.

19 October, 2009. A new report 'Lowering the Flag' on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been released by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). FIELD contributed the legal analysis to the report, which highlights the need to end the practice of granting Flags of Convenience to fishing vessels as crucial in the international efforts to combat IUU fishing.

29 September, 2009 - Ross Clarke, a qualified Australian lawyer specialised in international human rights and transitional justice, has joined FIELD from September 2009. Ross' work experience ranges from corporate advice to legislative and policy analysis, trial monitoring, and participatory, community-based legal research.