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The Last Night in Durban

COA Admin December 9, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo A lot has happened today, I hope. Everything that is going on takes place behind closed doors, so we have no way of accurately reporting it the play by play. The ministerial Inbada started just few minutes ago, and that will hopefully bring some clarity to the situation. So far there are two draft texts presented by the COP presidency, to conclude the work in Durban. Text from...

Options for the Outcome

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo The last 48 hours of Durban are at hand. Decisions are going to be made, one way or another. On the future mandate, the LCA working group on legal options for the outcome, came up with a conference room paper yesterday. That paper specified four options for the LCA outcome from Durban. And as we well know, most Kyoto proposals are conditional on what comes out from the LCA....

African Anger at European Calls for A ‘New Mandate’

Youth Civil Society December 8, 2011 0 Comments
If you wish to add your organization's name please send an email to: greeder@coa.edu ASAP Civil society groups attack ‘Durban Mandate’ proposal as a ‘great escape’ DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Today – Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks...

A Manufactured Process

tzundel December 7, 2011 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel Allow me to quickly clarify that I'm not an idealist about the UN; I know that the concept of a "fair" international negotiation is  contradicted by the presence of global hegemons--outcomes certainly don't reflect a middle ground between nations. However, the last three years of UNFCCC negotiations have shown us that although the power dynamics of negotiations may not lead to a...

The Great Escape

Anjali Appadurai December 6, 2011 0 Comments
Or "How they help us help ourselves lose the fight" by Anjali Appadurai Is the climate regime unraveling before our eyes in Durban? There are some scary indications that it is. Some Parties are "cautiously optimistic" (India), some are "reasonably optimistic" (Brazil) and some believe that this is all going down the drain (a different Indian negotiator). The truth is, expectations are all over...