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It’s 11:00 p.m. on a Friday night and I’m sitting in the Qatar National Convention Center helplessly watching as my country blocks and bullies any real progress on a climate deal.
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Naderev M. Saño, head of delegation for the Philippines, leans forward to the mic, his voice breaking under the weight of the emotion he is struggling to contain.
Read post →U.S. Special Envoy Todd Stern announced that United States would like to discuss climate equity and the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibility.
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My relationship with my negotiators primarily consists of me running after them in the halls, stopping them whenever I can, sitting directly behind them in open sessions, and barging into the U.S. delegation office.
Read post →The Department of State provides everything a journalist needs to know on what the U.S. delegation is up to in Doha for COP18.
Read post →Regardless of how sympathetic individual negotiators might be to the issues we are raising on equity, mitigation, and finance, the U.S. remains committed to moving forward with an unjust agreement.
Read post →Obama signs the EU airline emissions ban a year before the EU carbon reduction plan is slated to go into effect, sending the message that U.S. business interests will continue to take priority over responsible action on climate change.
Read post →We haven’t met. Not yet anyway. I’m the one in the black Adopt a Negotiator shirt, the one who is currently walking the halls of the convention center, iPad in hand, eyes scanning the crowds, watching for anyone from the U.S. delegation.
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Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy on Climate Change, has just managed the undoable: making the climate negotiations newsworthy in the middle of an Olympic-heavy summer. If only this had been to make constructive proposals rather than question one of the few elements already agreed upon: the two degrees target.
Read post →The EU’s Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard kicked off the final day of the Durban talks, giving the first…
Read post →Tensions are rising rapidly in Durban, even as the negotiations continue on (in theory), somewhere behind closed doors. Normally the…
Read post →With just two days of talks left, the impasse in Durban grinds on, with no breakthrough on any of the…
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