Ewa Modlinska, Master of Environmental Studies Candidate York University Thursday, January 12, 2012 COP17 DEBRIEF T HE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING IN FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCES YorkU Delegation - Ewa Modlinska, Curtis Kuunuaq Konek and Jordan Konek from the Arviat Youth Project, and Alex Todd. W HAT DID I WANT TO GET OUT OF COP17? COP17: theoretical real-life understanding View COP17 as a policy platform (policy spaces, policy actors, conversations) Questions: who is inside/who is outside, who gets to talk with who, what are people talking about, how are they talking about it, what are the different positions: anti market vs. pro market Understanding of climate justice D IFFERENT C ONVERSATIONS IN DIFFERENT SPACES Official Spaces: Durban Exhibition Centre, International Conference Centre Objectives: To continue working within the current UN framework and draft a post-Kyoto Agreement D IFFERENT C ONVERSATIONS IN DIFFERENT SPACES Unofficial Spaces: Speakers Corner and the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) Objectives: Plurality of Voices on what constitutes climate justice and propose different community-led (vs. market-based) solutions C LIMATE J USTICE C LIMATE J F UTURE COP S Creating institutional opportunities for meaningful dialogue with national delegates Stop talking and start listening! T HANK YOU ! Questions?