Some voices are standing opposite to what the media was collaborating today. The Green politician Hermann Ott told the German newspaper “Taz” that a political binding agreement was already hammered out between the USA and China. Supposedly, 24% will be the amount that developed countries want to mitigate until 2020 – calculating the loopholes this [...]
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10 Dec
Tuvalu rockz the COP – but does it help?
Right now, the negotiations within the CMP in the main plenary are stopped again and a small group of people is meeting in one corner of the room to find agreemend under the guidance of Connie Hedegaard, the COP-President. Tuvalu seemed to have insisted on its proposal to first deal with what kind of outcome [...]
9 Dec
Danish surprise
Denmark ist a small but very rich country in the North of Europe. It is known for Hans-Christian Andersen and his Little Mermaid and a lot of Wind Power. And the danish Capital is host to the biggest UN-Conference ever, COP15! Thus, Denmark has a unique responsibility as host and – in the person of [...]
9 Dec
China blocks allegations
China just said at the CMP-Meeting that it is not agreeing with the finding of the CDM Executive Board (EB) on taking back some CDM-Windprojects in China. The initial Critique came up by groups like CDM-Watch that China was lowering subsidies for Windprojects which are enabled under the CDM. They would then not be “additional” [...]
8 Dec
Unity is fragile within the G-77
interesting Blog on the COP15.dk-Website. What interests me most: why is the official hosting-side posting news on problems within other negotiation-groups? sounds strange to me!
Indonesia, former chair of the Group of 77, proposes to extend the time frame for a new global climate treaty until June 2010. But there is a conflict of interests within [...]
8 Dec
France pushes for Tobin
Link here! (Cop15-website)
France wants financial tax in climate accord
France is pushing for a political agreement at the climate conference in Copenhagen to include a tax on financial transactions to help developing countries, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says.
AP/Nanet Poulsen 08/12/2009 11:20
Kouchner says a very small tax — 0.005 percent on financial transactions — would help [...]
6 Dec
China leads in awareness-raising.
“The Chinese press is preparing the Chinese for future increases in fees and taxes to fund the nation’s efforts to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.” (source)
That is is stuff I want to read from every country. Climate Change will cost all of us huge amounts of money. The question is not if we have to [...]
30 Nov
Canada to be excluded of community of nations
The 53 members big Commonwealth of former British colonies and territories has threatened to exclude Canada as the fifth nation only after Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa. The others were thrown out due to human rights abuses among others.
What did Canada do to deserve this?
They are a threat to the life of millions of [...]
19 Nov
Copenhagen is dead – long live Copenhagen
Obama admitted during his trip to Asia last week what many people were already saying since the Barcelona-talks earlier this month: Copenhagen will produce a “politically binding” agreement. Prior to this, a “legally binding” Agreement was envisioned, meaning a REAL treaty which is enforcable. politically binding is suppose to mean a clear roadmap towards something [...]
7 Nov
Sweden – the leader still leads
Yes, I love Sweden. I lived there and I am favouring the swedish education system and the general attitude towards each other up there (despite it being a little cold) over Germany or even the States. But since the Socialdemocratic Kingdom of Sweden became right-wing, there was much reason to concern. They turned back the [...]
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