Tag: mitigation

No One Can Play Poker Like The US

Joe Perullo December 3, 2011 0 Comments
by Joe Perullo There was a special Open-ended informal consultation on Wednesday organized by the president of the COP to discuss the possible Durban outcome.  There's no definition on what the outcome is right now, but it will for sure address the concerns arising from the potential elimination of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.  The US was second or third on the initial...

Agriculture, Aviation, and Article 4.1.(c): a report-back from Sector Specific Approaches

tzundel December 3, 2011 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel Yesterday Parties met for the first time to talk about cooperative sectoral approaches and sector-specific actions under the Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action. Sectoral approaches are simply work programmes that are specific to different sectors, like agriculture, aviation, or waste managment, for example. These sector-specific actions are supposed to "enhance the...

Climate-Stupid Agriculture @ the UNFCCC

tzundel December 1, 2011 1 Comment
by Trudi Zundel With food security threatened throughout the developing world, the global community has been paying a lot more attention to the effect of climate change on agriculture. More volatile weather patterns makes planning crop rotations difficult; higher concentration of rain patterns, whether dry or wet spells, means that fields either dry out or wash away--and farmers have little...

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...

Post-2012 Climate Regime: How Much Worse Can it Get?

tzundel November 29, 2011 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will end in 2012. In anticipation of that ending, Parties have been discussing what form the new UNFCCC commitments will take. The first item on the table: will there be a second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol? Developed and developing countries have fundamentally different hopes for a Durban outcome. Developed countries are...