The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is officially underway in Paris and the international community is seeking an unprecedented globally binding climate deal.
As heads of state work towards finalizing an agreement, members from the nonprofit and civil society sectors will be directly engaged in the process. Ahead of COP21, Devex sat down with Heather Coleman, climate change policy manager at Oxfam America, to find out what role Oxfam will play this week.
Coleman said that many developing countries don’t have the technical expertise or capacity to fully engage with the climate discussions in Paris and that Oxfam will have representatives “sitting on their country delegations doing the negotiations.”
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.