Tag: adaptation

Day 2: Low expectations: How did we get here?

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments
by Juan Soriano The sixteenth session of the climate change negotiations opened yesterday at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico. A year has passed from the meeting in Copenhagen which failed to deliver a fair, ambitious, and binding deal. As opposed to last year’s high expectations in Copenhagen, this year expectations are rather low. Both countries and observer organizations are seeing...

An introduction to climate finance…

COA Admin December 9, 2009 0 Comments
by Richard Van Kampen Sitting in the back of the first plenary meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) at the COP15 in Copenhagen, I wonder what kind of agreement, if any, will actually come out of this round of negotiations. I’m not pessimistic on the issue, however considering the progress of past negotiations under the UNFCCC, there is a significant amount of progress that...

Why I shouldn’t date an Annex I guy?

COA Admin October 7, 2009 0 Comments
by India Leela Raina from the Adopt A Negotiator project  To date or not to date and why? Among the 12 of us tracking the delegations here in Bangkok , I’m really tempted to go out in the evenings after a hard day’s work in the negotiations. I think after running after 60-year-old negotiators from my country I require some youthful energy to enthuse the atmosphere! From the perspective of a...

State of play.

COA Admin December 16, 2008 0 Comments
COP14 is over, but what exactly does that mean? It means we are way behind. The most recent milestone of international climate negotiations was the development of the "Bali Action Plan" at COP13 last year. This document established a framework from which climate negotiations would proceed during the following 24 months leading up to Copenhagen. Not much has happened since then. We are no nearer a...

Survival is Non-Negotiable

COA Admin December 10, 2008 0 Comments
(a piece I put together with some other youth for our daily publication in Poznan) We must safeguard the survival of all countries and peoples. There is no other way to put it. To do otherwise would be one of the greatest tragedies of all time. Negotiators must quickly raise the level of ambition if we are to meet this necessary goal. To wait any longer is unacceptable. Young people have laid out...