Oceans play a crucial role in the regulation of the earth’s climate. That is why Melvin John & Ina Djuren, who attended the first week of COP23 on behalf of IFLRY, used the conference to get deeper insights into the…
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IFLRY Online Meeting on IFLRY in the 80s
IFLRY Online is IFLRY’s new initiative to allow liberals from all over the world to interact with each other more online. In that spirit, IFLRY organises regular online seminars, in which different people in the IFLRY network explain more about…
What to Expect at the Upcoming UN Climate Conference in Bonn
The 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Bonn from November 6th to 17th, 2017 under the presidency of Fiji. The goal is the advance of the implementation…
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Climate Change: Staying below 1.5 ºC, why it’s important for Canada?
Climate change is a hot topic. In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, cities and states have vowed to step up. It is also time for other nations to step up on climate commitments. Earth’s average…
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IFLRY at UN Climate Conference in Bonn
Over the past two weeks, the international policy, scientific and NGO community came together at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany, and participated in the SB46 (Subsidiary Body 46) of the UNFCCC. A delegation of IFLRY had the privilege…
Fifty Shades of Dutch Politics
Today, the Dutch people will be voting for a new parliament. In the last years, the Netherlands finally came out of the economic recession of 2008, and it had its share in the European migrant crisis. The current coalition of…
Former Danish Climate Minister: “The World Needs More Climate Change Knights” – Nickolas Pagonakis and Jonas Hall-Andersen
“In a time where the world experiences a drastic change in leadership, liberals must unite to deal with one of the most existential threats: climate change.” These are the words of Martin Lidegaard, the former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs,…
IFLRY Delegation at COP22 in Marrakech – Dorien Lugt and Jonas Hall-Andersen
Dorien Lugt (Netherlands) and Jonas Hall-Andersen (Denmark) were on IFLRY’s delegation to the UN Climate Change conference (COP22) in Marrakech this year. What follows is a report on their overall experiences. It is easy to get lost in the small…
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Klimaschutzplan 2050: Germany, the first country to look ahead – Dorien Lugt and Jonas Hall-Andersen
Dorien Lugt (Netherlands) and Jonas Hall-Andersen (Denmark) were on IFLRY’s delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech this year. Besides this article on Germany’s climate roadmap, they wrote about their general impressions, the impact of the US…
Trump’s Climate Agenda: the End of the World?
Dorien Lugt (Netherlands) and Jonas Hall-Andersen (Denmark) were on IFLRY’s delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech this year. Besides this article on the impact of the US presidential elections, they wrote about their general impressions, on…
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