Blogs Written by Denia Syam

Towards the New Urban Agenda: Where are “people” in delivering inclusive, safe, resilient cities?

Opinion Author: Jim Jarvie, Denia Syam

The challenge in addressing inclusion and social justice in cities across Asia will need to be faced via tools of persuasion, advocacy, and finding common ground with government, finance, and investment mechanisms that are too rarely engaged as equal. The Habitat III New Urban Agenda is an arena to be active in this process and all ACCCRN members are strongly encouraged to become involved.


ACCCRN Network Members 1st Meeting in Jakarta: An Opportunity for Collaboration

Stories from the field Author: Denia Syam

As a follow up to the first ACCCRN social gathering in Melaka in March, we held the first in-country social gathering in Indonesia.

Being held right after we celebrated the Eid-ul Fitr, this event was the first offline networking meeting of our Indonesian members and we also took the opportunity to carry out the Halalbihalal1 ritual. Having worked closely with the Indonesia Climate Alliance (ICA), we also took this opportunity to introduce the ICA as a national network platform for low-carbon and climate-resilience Indonesia.


Reflection from Bonn, en route to the action-oriented COP 22 in Marrakech

Takeaways Author: Denia Syam

A few months after COP 21, the Parties gathered in Bonn in what were the first climate talks since Paris. The Bonn climate talks were the place to prove whether we could maintain the spirit of collaboration and compromise, which successfully laid an essential foundation for the complex yet delicately crafted balance of the historical landmark that the Paris Agreement represented.


The Paris Agreement: what does it mean for climate change resilience building measures?

Takeaways Author: Denia Syam
Last December, I had the privilege of supporting the Indonesia Delegation at the COP 21 UNFCCC in Paris. With my background work with ACCCRN, I was assigned to cover the issues of Adaptation and Loss and Damage. The COP 21 has successfully given rise to the Paris Agreement, which will provide an overarching policy framework for post-2020 global climate change action, and thus will be relevant to our work on climate change resilience building measures.
 

The impending Paris Agreement: ICA calls for no agreement without fair and equal adaptation and commitment on loss and damage

Opinion Author: Denia Syam

At the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (COP17 UNFCCC) held in Durban in 2011, more than 195 Parties agreed to establish the new legally binding and universal agreement on climate (new-LBA), as the replacement for the Kyoto Protocol which will no longer be in force after 2015.


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