Green fringe events at COP17

CDKN is a global alliance of organisations set up to channel the world's best evidence and expertise - on climate compatible development strategies and plans, climate finance and climate related disaster risk reduction - to developing country decision-makers.

It has an official stall for the entire COP 17 period with its partners SouthSouthNorth and Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, sharing climate planning tools and research, policy papers and information on their projects.

It also offers experts for media interviews and can help arrange interviews with ministers or NGO leaders from its client countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Spokespersons

• Simon Maxwell, executive chair, 1-7 December: +27 (0) 79 811 5881
• Sam Bickersteth, chief executive, 2-8 December: +27 (0) 79 811 2361
• Tim Ash Vie, negotiations support, 29 November-9 December: +27 (0) 79 816 3564
• Natasha Grist, research, 1-6 December: +27 (0) 76 460 0891
• Mairi Dupar, knowledge management and communications, 2-8 December: +27 (0) 76 462 4091
• Carl Wesselink, Africa regional director, 29 November-8 December: +27 (0) 72 532 0270
• Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, Asia regional director, 30 November-8 December: + 27 (0) 79 818 0226
• Pippa Heylings, LAC regional director, 1-8 December: + 27 (0) 76 060 3691

Trees, music, Pecha Kucha

Greenpop will be planting trees in a low-cost housing development in Cato Manor, Durban, in partnership with the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) and the Botanical Society on 3 December. The GBCSA has done a green retrofit of these homes and it will be unveiled on Saturday along with a community planting to add the extra green touches and get the community stuck in. Volunteer places are full for this occasion.

On Sunday 4 December at 10am, it will be planting trees at the Eco Park on the Bluff in Durban in partnership with The Bluff Environmental Society. Volunteers should RSVP to gro.popneerg@ofni before Friday 2 December.

On Thursday 1 December, Climate Smart CT is hosting a Pecha Kucha event where Lauren O'Donnell from Greenpop will be one of the speakers and Jeremy Hewitt, the other co-founder of Greenpop (Jeremy Loops by night) is playing at the Durban Botanical Gardens, together with Freshlyground at the COP17 concert on 8 December.

Greenpop has an exhibition stand in the Climate Response Expo in the Forest Olive Hall. For more information, go to its new website at www.greenpop.org.