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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: advocacy

Lessons of loss and damage for climate policy change

The Doha COP18 negotiations took a step towards compensating poorer countries for climate damages. How critical was the influence of Hurricane Sandy?

Published January 6, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, FCCC COP18, loss and damage

Right to food lost in Oxfam campaign

Throughout Oxfam’s new GROW campaign on global hunger the right to food is presumed rather than reiterated.

Published June 6, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, hunger, right to food

Oxfam charts brave new world of activism

A campaign to end global hunger launched in over 40 countries last week by the international aid agency, Oxfam, may signal new levels of ambition for movements pursuing social and environmental reform.

Published June 6, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, food security, green economy, yahoo
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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things