Joe Perullo

Who Are These Guys Anyway?

Joe Perullo December 6, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo I decided to do some investigating on who exactly the country delegates were. Who hires them? Who are they really representing? What do they do outside of the UNFCCC? When we say the US is stalling progress and shoving responsibility onto developing countries, who exactly do we mean? A lot of fingers are pointed at the delegates, but they're just people, right? The US was my...

No One Can Play Poker Like The US

Joe Perullo December 3, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo There was a special Open-ended informal consultation on Wednesday organized by the president of the COP to discuss the possible Durban outcome. There's no definition on what the outcome is right now, but it will for sure address the concerns arising from the potential elimination of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. The US was second or third on the initial...

Climate From Space!

Joe Perullo December 2, 2011 1 Comment

by Joe Perullo I decided to spend this morning perusing around the display counters. They are mostly NGOs, national environment departments, and institutions who have something to say about what their doing in the fight for a more livable world. I wanted to lean about the cool things some people are doing before I would be swamped trying to follow the political insanity bound to come in the...

Against the grain: who’s fighting the Carbon Markets?

Joe Perullo November 30, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo The Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting to the Parties under the Kyoto Protocol, also known as the CMP, began today with the issue of the Clean Development Mechansim (CDM). Martin Hession, the Chair of the CDM Executive Board (CDM EB), opened the discussion with a report of improvements made to the CDM. These included improved verifications of proposed projects...

Carbon Markets

Joe Perullo November 24, 2011 0 Comments

by Joe Perullo Lately, the phrase Carbon Markets is what comes to me when I hear the word “controversial.” Much of the literature I have read on them mentions how the markets are "a horrible distraction from real emission mitigation strategies" and how they "redefine the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics." I wouldn’t say I disagree with these statements, but...