climate change impacts

What’s health got to do with it?

greeder December 6, 2011 0 Comments

by Graham Reeder So how are climate change and health connected anyway? I don’t know about you, but the first thing that comes to mind when I used to think about climate change is arctic sea ice and major industry polluting. As I’ve developed a stronger interest in public health issues over the last couple of years, the human ecologist in me has driven me to make connections between climate...

Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights – Not as Scary as it Sounds

Anjali Appadurai December 1, 2011 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai The climate regime is huge, transboundary, multidimensional. The UNFCCC, being the only body facilitating multilateral negotiations on climate change, is made up of a maze of different issues and tracks. The fundamental premise of the climate debate is that developed and developing countries are responsible to different extents for the current level of global emissions, but...

Finishing Off the Business in Durban – Developing Country Perspectives

COA Admin December 6, 2010 0 Comments

by Anjali Appadurai It was my good fortune to be invited to a high-level cocktail party by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Friday night. Pavan Sukhdev, head of the initiative, was speaking on the negative effects of meat production on our food systems, but his speech was almost drowned out by the vast number of people who were too busy chatting and...

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...