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Stevie Emilia

Currently a Features Editor at The Jakarta Post daily based in Jakarta, Indonesia, she is in charge of several daily feature pages, including science & technology and environment pages. Over the years, she has reported different issues, from politics to social issues, but took special interest in environmental issues, especially climate change. She developed the interest after taking part in a course on environmental reporting at the International Institute of Journalism in Berlin, Germany. Since then, she has also been assigned as the paper’s environment correspondent and has covered several climate change conferences, including the one in Bali, where she was one of editors for the paper’s team of reporters covering the event.

Posts by Stevie Emilia

The Bumpy Road To Copenhagen

By: Stevie Emilia on December 17th, 2008

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Parties agree that a first draft of the text for a new treaty would be available for the interim meeting slated to take place in Bonn in June of 2009.

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“We Can’t Negotiate The Facts.”

By: Stevie Emilia on December 15th, 2008

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Al Gore reminds negotiators to stick to scientific facts when faced with doubt or fear during climate change negotiations.

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Climate meeting warms up with money talks

By: Stevie Emilia on December 11th, 2008

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Climate negotiations in the cold city of Poznan in Poland got warmer this week with hints of progress on a climate adaptation fund and on a mechanism to compensate forest countries that halt deforestation in order to help bring down emissions.

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Poznan talks in full swing

By: Stevie Emilia on December 11th, 2008

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High-level talks started Thursday at the UN climate change conference in the Polish city of Poznan, with a strong call from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for developed countries to show their leadership.

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Poznan enters final week after little progress

By: Stevie Emilia on December 9th, 2008

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Climate change negotiations resumed Tuesday in the Polish city of Poznan after a slow first week which only produced a little bit of progress.

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Young voices take a center stage

By: Stevie Emilia on December 8th, 2008

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Children are among the most vulnerable to climate change. But without political power, most of them can only rely on others to decide on their future.

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Weathering Losses

By: Stevie Emilia on December 5th, 2008

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More than 15,000 people across the world died from extreme weather events last year, with damages accounted at US$80 billion, a report launched at the ongoing UN climate change talks in Poznan, Poland, revealed on Thursday.

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Jungle Book

By: Stevie Emilia on December 5th, 2008

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Two reports call for forestry adaptation — climate change could have a devastating effect on the world’s forests and the nearly one billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods.

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Happy Feet

By: Stevie Emilia on December 3rd, 2008

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Among the 120 exhibits at the green technology exhibition at the UNFCCC in Poznan is a dance floor that generates electricity, a device that catches fog, and even hanging vegetable gardens.

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Minister: economy will bounce back, climate may not

By: Stevie Emilia on December 1st, 2008

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The global financial crisis is casting a shadow over the two-week climate change summit in Poznan, Poland which opened Monday, with concerns that industrialized countries might be reluctant to commit necessary funds to fight the disaster.

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