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This infographic compares the emission gap to the opportunities to reduce emissions in the short term. The question is thus not whether countries can avoid dangerous climate change but whether they are actually willing to do it.
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Introducing the various opportunities for short term mitigation reductions. Solutions to increase the ambition of our climate policies are well known, and most of them come with co-benefits!
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A recent report by the Asian Development Bank highlights the critical need for Asia’s negotiators to take hold of COP18 and ensure faster progress in the negotiations
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There are so many themes being discussed here, and it is clear as day to me that the only way we will achieve any of it, is to build in women’s rights and participation from the beginning.
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The bigger picture is getting lost as we deal in details.
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The need to consider the interest of future generations when taking decisions has been recognized as a principle of sustainable development over the past decades. RioPlus20 offers now a key opportunity to turn this principle into practice. However, a few countries threatened to prevent this from happening.
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To fasten the pace of the discussions, Brazil decided to remove many proposals from the draft text, not considering whether those elements would have contributed to the solution…
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A more personal note to explain why I have decided to quit the UN negotiations in Rio for a while and explore other venues to promote governance solutions for sustainability, hoping to find among city councilors or judges some of those top-down approaches that I have been searching for over the past years.
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On my way to Rio, short post to highlight what I am hoping to find in Rio during the next two weeks, and perhaps more importantly: where I will be seeking it…
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With little progress to report from the UN climate talks, short parenthesis to introduce another international process aiming at tackling climate change: the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Read post →Andando hoje pelo super organizado ICC, centro de convenção onde está acontecendo a CoP-17, me deparei com as seguintes palavras:…
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Several times in the recent history of the climate negotiations, developed and developing countries agreed on keeping the increase of…
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