IATP at Durban

Dec 9, 2011

Used under creative commons license from UNclimatechange

The COP17 climate talks are wrapping up and IATP staff are on their way home from Durban, South Africa. Throughout the 10-day summit, IATP met with media representatives, delegates and NGO partners on a range of issues related to agriculture and climate change. We’ve prepared a summary of press coverage from Durban and a compilation of materials that the IATP team produced during the summit. A post-conference report will be available as soon as staff have returned.

IATP staffers in the news

Inter Press Service News
A recipe for carbon farming, 12/02

Steve Suppan:
"Soil carbon credits will only generate tiny revenues for farmers and allows biggest polluters to continue to pollute, Suppan said. What African agriculture needs, is real emissions reductions along with substantial adaptation funding, he said." Read more.

Mail & Guardian
Ministry lobbies for climate-smart agriculture programme, 12/02

Steve Suppan:
"The climate-smart agriculture concept had been driven by the World Bank, which had partnered Joemat-Pettersson in developing an African consensus on the need for a work programme that would kickstart climate-smart agriculture initiatives, including a support fund." Read more.

Ghana MMA
South Africa: Civils Snub Zuma's African Agri-Solution, 12/03

Steve Suppan:
“African communities, among the most vulnerable to climate change, will suffer from the continued failure of rich countries and companies to finance adaptation projects, particularly for agriculture, the main source of African livelihoods." Read more.

African Globe
Civil Society Snub Zuma's African Agri-Solution, 12/04

IOL: Daily News
Concern about Zuma's Farming Vision, 12/05

Steve Suppan:
"Just 5 percent of all climate finance goes to adaptation projects...The other 95 percent goes to projects to reduce greenhouse gases, and many of these mitigation projects to reduce carbon emissions offset credits to be sold to developed countries to allow them to comply with emissions caps...But by buying offset credits, rich country companies won't actually have to reduce their emissions." Read more.

African Investor
Concern about Zuma's Farming Vision by Laea Medley, 12/05