Bad Move, Senator.
Posted on 17. Nov, 2010 by joannadafoe in Canada
Conservative Senators vote down Canada’s Climate Change Accountability Act Bill C-311 days before Cancun meeting.
“A Big F*cking Deal”
Posted on 11. Apr, 2010 by adoptanegotiator in U.S.A.
Understanding the stakes of US Senate Legislation and how it shapes the post-COP15 world.
U.S. Wins Long-Anticipated Fossil
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A., bits
Not for anything done specifically today, but for a broader lack of ambition that-as this final week of a two-year negotiation process kicks off-that stands as an enormous hurdle to progress. The fossil: FIRST PLACE: UNITED STATES of AMERICA The USA wins its first Fossil of the COP for two reasons: first, for making absolutely [...]
No Senate Bill Before Copenhagen, What’s Next?
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A.
There won’t be a Senate bill before Copenhagen. What does it mean for the UNFCCC?
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.