Tracking Climate Negotiators in Bonn this Friday, April 9th
Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by adoptanegotiator in Adopt a Negotiator
Young ‘Negotiator Trackers’ follow their country’s negotiators to Bonn, April 9th – 11th, for the first major UNFCCC meeting after Copenhagen.
Empty plenary hall at the Hotel Maritim, where this weeks UNFCCC meetings will be held.
DELAY KILLS… a mantra we adopted in Bonn eleven months ago, during our first effort at tracking these negotiations. We hoped to tell the story of the world coming together to avert a global climate crisis, but our country’s UN climate negotiators were falling short of crucial progress. We held up our signs worried that Copenhagen might not deliver if they continued to delay…
Countries eventually engaged in talks at an unprecedented level, but our fears were realized, and Copenhagen did not deliver the goals that countries agreed 2 years prior. World leaders salvaged negotiations from complete collapse by hashing out the Copenhagen Accord, a non-binding agreement aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees and providing near-term funding to help the most vulnerable countries already being affected. We got a mandate to continue negotiations, but still lack key details on who will do and give what. With too many questions unanswered and global action to avert a climate crisis still waiting… DELAY KILLS remains a poignant and urgent cry today.
Climate negotiators will convene again in Bonn this Friday, April 9th – 11th, for the first major meeting of the group since Copenhagen. Adopt a Negotiator is sending a small team to help you track your country’s negotiators, and to help ensure that the story about people coming together to avert a global climate crisis can have a happy ending.
Meet your Trackers for this week’s meeting:
Andrea Cinquina – Italy
Anna Collins – United Kingdom
Florent Baarsch – France
Joanna Dafoe (bio coming soon) – Canada
Juliana Russar – Brazil
Joshua Wiese (bio coming soon) – United States
We’ll do our best to bring you real time coverage of what’s happening throughout the weekend via Twitter, video interviews and frequent blog posts.