Joe Perullo

Australia Dropping the Second Commitment Period?

Joe Perullo May 19, 2012 1 Comment

~by Joe Perullo In a contact group for the Kyoto Protocol, Australia announced that it has not yet taken a decision on taking on the second commitment period (CP2). This would be the third country to not adopt the second commitment period, after Japan and Russia. note: The US never ratified the KP and Canada dropped out of it completely. Staying in the KP but not adopting the second commitment...

Talks on Trade and Tech Transfer lead to Distrust in Process

Joe Perullo May 18, 2012 0 Comments

~by Joe Perullo The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) opened their meeting this morning on the issue of trade. The big fight was whether or not to continue discussions of trade in the LCA. The LCA is wrapping up its last year, tasked with developing a new legal outcome of some kind. The outcome will have to address the five items agreed as major...

Finance Inadequate!

Joe Perullo May 16, 2012 0 Comments

~by Joe Perullo The word Philippine negotiator Bernarditas de Castro-Muller wouldn't let go unnoticed in yesterday's small negotiating group meeting on finance was "inadequate." The contact group met to discuss possible guidelines on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and how to manage it's two sub-funds: the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). The...

BASIC makes Room for an Elephant

Joe Perullo December 9, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo BASIC (the group of Brazil, South African, India, and China) gave a rather uncomfortable press conference the other day. China, the leader of the group, started the talk on the defensive, denying the major "rumor" floating around that BASIC is splitting up. The other countries complied and also denied the allegations. An elephant walked into the room. The EU and the US have...

CDM Consultations are Running out of Time!

Joe Perullo December 8, 2011 1 Comment

by Joe Perullo Over the past two weeks, the informal consultations on issues relating to the clean development mechanism (CDM) have been bickering over the same few things. Least developed countries (LDCs) want more programs available to them, as do countries most vulnerable to climate change and small island developing states (SIDS)—arguments parallel with those in the negotiations on the...