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 [...]
This Week’s Tripping Points
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A.
With the US still holding out on a couple crucial bits of information that make real progress on the Long-term Cooperative Agreement track just about impossible, the UN talks this week in Barcelona are circling around a couple other troubling tripping points.
Sauver le Monde avec 67$
Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Florent Baarsch in France
Une coquille dans un texte onusien peut faire de chacun de nous le sauveur du Monde, malheureusement, il s’agit bien d’une coquille dans le texte. Et on a toujours besoin de plus d’une centaine de milliards de dollars pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques.
How slow is slow?
Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by annac in E.U., United Kingdom
So in the first of the blogs while I take some time off to finish my Masters we hear from Nic, a friendly Aussie cleverly disguised as a Brit. A seasoned UNFCCCer he travelled OVERLAND from oz to get to the last CoP in Poland! And definitely knows his stuff. He’s going to give us [...]
India in Controversy?
Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Leela Raina in Uncategorized
Looks like the gossip is that India has taken a crucial step in the Long term Cooperation meetings. They are supposedly wanting to delete one whole paragraph on the sources of funding.
Ever since time existed,India has been discouraging the finance in form of bilateral Aid in the negotiations like the ODAs and US AID. But [...]