How the Paris climate deal can save lives
The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, but its mitigation and adaptation plans are not ambitious
ADP: Mitigation moves forward!
Mitigation talks achieved substantial progress today as the Geneva Text was divided into an Agreement and a COP Decision. What’s that mean? Don’t worry, there’s an infographic.
Can China Walk the pre-2020 ambition Walk
Can china increase its pre-2020 pledge before Paris
Whats New in Mitigation
Check out this infographic to see exactly what’s changed in Mitigation
India’s reluctance to review sets a bad precedent
Every country has to submit its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) before the Paris climate negotiations, to announce its actions and targets regarding mitigating or adapting to climate...
At What Expense?
As I wrote yesterday, the decisions undertaken under the UNFCCC do not operate in a vacuum, and reflect the power disparities between the north and the south. We see that happening again in the last hours of...
The Time For Difficult Decisions
It is clear that the urgency of this moment in addressing climate change is now not being denied by anyone except nutjobs and those on industry paychecks. The UNFCCC Lima climate change conference started 12...
India is blowing bubbles in the air
Today is the twelfth day of 20th United Nations climate change conference, at Lima in Peru. Leaders from across the world have gathered here in a bid to ‘save’ the planet. They are working on a landmark...
A journey through COP’s groupings: AILAC
AILAC is the Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is composed by Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama and Peru, mainly middle income countries. Dominican Republic works...
The Forest First, Please!
I’m sitting in a session of the Durban Platform which has been tasked with a mega-project to save the world – including, among other things, delivering an agreement to keep temperature rise to less than 2...