USA earns “Fossil of the day” award at Bonn Climate Change Talks
Posted on 05. Jun, 2010 by Joshua Wiese in U.S.A.
After a fairly drama-free first week of the climate talks in Bonn, Saturday marked a change in tone. In addition to developments in the effort to eliminate loopholes from LULUCF in the Kyoto negotiations track, the US also made headlines (in the conference center, anyway).
The United States was awarded the first “Fossil of the day” [...]
U.S. Displeased with state of LCA text
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A., bits
In the LCA group (now headed up by Hedegaard, if my intel is accurate?!) that ended just now, the US negotiatiors raised some serious concerns about the structure of the document. It’s a summary of a number of things, argued Jonathan Pershing, but there are so many alternative appendices that it’s totally unrealistic to bring [...]
Mr. Chairman… Please explain to us where to go.
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Rosa Kouri in Canada, bits
Rosa reports on collapsing discussions on the eve of the ministerial discussions.
誰にもわからないところまで来たんだろうか/Who knows?
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Eri Aoki in Japan
In the morning, the line is unbelievable. The meeting and text draft is unclear. The negotiation is unexpected. What will we do? Wher to go? Who knows? 何が起こるのか？誰が何をするのか？ それを誰が知っているのか？
Japan’s new situation – as a Negotiator
Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Eri Aoki in Japan
Eri interviews Mr. Kunihko Shimada. What he thinks about Japan’s new positon, negotiation and leadership, and how he feels about it … /島田交渉官に、現在の日本の交渉、そして交渉官という仕事自身についてインタビューをさせていただきました。