Tag: climate change

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...

Canada on the spotlight on the first day of the Climate Negotiations in Cancun

COA Admin November 30, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca One of the side events that receives the most attention during Climate Change Conferences (since 1999) is the "Fossil of the Day" awards organized by the Climate Action Network (CAN). The award is given to the worst-performing country of the previous day. Yesterday Canada was the proud receiver of this award, not for its performing in the negotiations themselves since there...

Delays, confusion, misinformation: Cancun Day 1

COA Admin November 30, 2010 1 Comment
by Lindsay Britton “Every hour which we spend in useless transport and in useless bureaucracy is an hour less spent working and an hour less spent on coverage of this very, very important conference. Can you please find a way of speeding things up so we are not caught in traffic jams and we are not caught in places where we cannot get taxis and we are able to work?” -Richard Ingham, French...

Copenhagen Reflection

COA Admin December 23, 2009 1 Comment
by Oliver Bruce I have to admit that I didn’t have high hopes for Copenhagen. I’d read the updates of the negotiations from Bonn, Bangkok and Barcelona. I knew they hadn’t made enough progress to pull together something substantive. So when I entered the Bella Center I was under no illusions as to any impact I could have and spent my first week twittering on where the free food was and...

Juan Soriano offers youth statement to plenary

COA Admin December 19, 2009 0 Comments
by Donna Gold (from a press release) Sporting an orange t-shirt with the question, “How old will you be in 2050?”—referring to the fact that in 40 years the youth of today will be experiencing the effects of climate change while many of the leaders negotiating the treaty will be gone—Juan Carlos Soriano presented the youth statement to the plenary today. In 2050 he will be 64 years old....