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Rachael van der Kooye
Rachael van der Kooye is a free-lance journalist for newspaper, radio and television in Suriname. Over the last fifteen years she has specialized in environment and development issues, raising and improving awareness in Suriname. The quality and reach of her work is reflected in the impact of her reports, which encourage social action and national policy in various ways. She wrote major technical papers on environmental awareness for national and international organizations. For her work she won several national and international awards. At present she is a journalism lecturer at the Academy for Journalism (AHKCO) and president of Surinamese Union of Journalists (SVJ).
Posts by Rachael van der Kooye
Keeping the forests we’ve got
No commentsThe conservation of forests in countries like Suriname with high forest cover and low deforestation rates is not a priority for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Yet forest people suffer enormously from the effects of climate change.
»Indigenous people call for suspension of forest projects
No commentsThe International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IFIPCC) has urged the UN Climate Summit in Poland to suspend all REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) projects, until the rights of indigenous peoples are guaranteed.
»Does the UN climate convention ignore gender?
No commentsWomen’s organizations at the UN climate talks in Poland, COP14, are concerned about the treaty which underlies the meeting, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, because they say the convention has no human face and no social dimension.
»World gathers to seek climate answers
No commentsHuge droughts and floods, cyclones with increasingly destructive power, tropical pandemics, and a dramatic decline of biodiversity are some of the threats to humankind which Maciej Nowicki, Poland’s environment minister, raised in his speech at the opening of the 14th. United Nations climate change conference (COP14) in Poznan, Poland.
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