A Long Time Coming
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A.
President Obama’s going to Copenhagen with numbers in hand. Will either bit be enough?
Waiting for America
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A.
As the last round of “intersessional” climate talks before Copenhagen opened today in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United States.
The (way too) slow dance
Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A.
The lesson from the first few days here in Bangkok: negotiations don’t go anywhere without U.S. numbers on the table. The problem is, even the delegates haven’t known what they can lay out there.