Category: Climate Change

Disagreements and distrust over chairmanship of the Durban Platform

greeder May 19, 2012 0 Comments
~by Graham Reeder Last night was an exciting night in the Bonn plenary hall, it was a chance to see the real UN circus at play. There will be two co-chairs for the new Durban Platform on Enhanced Action (ADP), one from a developing country and one from a developed country. The WEOG (Western Europe and Others: all of western Europe, Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and Turkey)...

Adaptation negotiations stall as the rift between Rich and Poor grows

greeder May 18, 2012 0 Comments
~by Graham Reeder Today's adaptation negotiations took a turn for the worse as developed and developing countries started to disagree about implementation issues. The Bonn adaptation meetings have focused on two important pieces of the Cancun Adaptation Framework: the Work Programme on Loss and Damage and the support for the National Adaptation Plans. The Loss and Damage stream is important...

Equity matters

greeder May 17, 2012 0 Comments
~by Graham Reeder Today’s negotiations have almost exclusively been dedicated to the subject of equity. The Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action, after spending most of yesterday squabbling over its agenda, got straight into holding their all-day workshop on equitable access to sustainable development. The word equity in the context of the negotiations decisions has its...

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...

AWG-KP intervention text

greeder May 15, 2012 0 Comments
~Opening intervention of the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol, written by YOUNGO and delivered by Camilla Born from the UKYCC. AWG-KP intervention: Thank you chair.  My name is Camilla and I am 23 years old. For us, the outcome of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in Durban was extremely disappointing. All Annex I parties should have led by example and taken on ambitious, legally binding...