Tired, crowded, and optimistic
Posted on 11. Dec, 2010 by adoptanegotiator in Adopt a Negotiator
After releasing new negotiating texts on Friday night, parties (countries) gathered to informally discuss and air their views. The room was crowded with negotiators and observers alike. There are a few dissenters (Bolivia and Cuba among them), but most of the paries seem positive and the room is buzzing with a strange sort of tired [...]
Waiting and worrying: will Cancun be enough?
Posted on 10. Dec, 2010 by lauratyrer in South Africa
The strain is starting to show as Adopt-a-Negotiator trackers plot their strategy on the last day of the Cancun negotiations. We’re banking on finishing between 4am and 6am tomorrow morning
A basic meeting of minds
Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by lauratyrer in South Africa
The four members of the BASICs group, which was established in 2009 to advance the interests of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (all large, growing economies), reaffirmed their alliance and their non-negotiable requirements for reaching a climate change deal at a press conference in Cancun yesterday. Their joint call for the development of an [...]
Christiana Figueres on hope and necessity
Posted on 06. Dec, 2010 by Joshua Wiese in Adopt a Negotiator
Executive Secreatary Christiana Figueres, sat down with the Adopt a Negotiator (AAN) team for a moving conversation about the status of the Cancun talks and about her motivations for working with countries to find common ground to make real progress on addressing climate change. Leela Raina, the project’s Indian Negotiator Tracker, opened the conversation by [...]
Gallery: First Days of Cancun Climate Change Conference
Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by adoptanegotiator in gallery
Open call for guest post submissions
Posted on 02. Dec, 2010 by Joshua Wiese in Adopt a Negotiator
Dear friends, colleagues and fellow negotiation trackers, I run a TckTckTck campaign project called Adopt a Negotiator. We have a team of exceptional young ‘negotiator trackers’ from 11 countries in Cancun - following their country’s delegations throughout the Cancun Climate Change Conference and blogging about it. After much persistence, we’ve earned the occasional attention our [...]
Cancun Update: Call the White House!
Posted on 01. Dec, 2010 by astark in U.S.A.
It can be frustrating to watch the UN climate negotiations from afar, when it feels like there’s nothing that we can do as individuals to change the outcome. Now, 1Sky brings you a way to get involved right now: call the White House and tell President Obama that we need the U.S. delegation to be [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front?
Posted on 01. Dec, 2010 by astark in U.S.A.
It’s quiet here. A little too quiet. The second day of UNFCCC negotiations in Cancun opened relatively peacefully, aside from the usual logistical glitches, traffic jams and terminally broken wi-fi, with the opening plenary sessions of the SBI (Subsidiary Body for Implementation) and the SBSTA (Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice). Yesterday at the [...]