Taken from the Adopt a Negotiator Website
The most common question I’ve been asked since returning to Halifax from the Bonn climate talks, which ended last Friday, is, “What was the most inspirational thing that happened?”
The United Kingdom’s emissions are dropping year by year. China has committed $600 billion into green technology. There were 100 passionate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bonn’
19 Jun
Positive Wrap-Up of Bonn Negotiations
11 Jun
FINALLY: Copenhagen Climate Treaty out!
Download here the new “Copenhagen Climate Treaty”.
The only downside to this, it is not (yet) adopted by any legal body yet any country delegation. It is a proposal by 50 NGOs. The good thing: they made a legal text out of it as well and advice the delegations to “Copy&Paste” it into their proposals.
Way to [...]
11 Jun
Math in Japan is different!
The japanese Prime Minister Aso is fighting against attacks from around the world due to the very weak targets Japan is willing to take in a Copenhagen Agreement in December. Arguing that taking a new baseline year (2005 instead of the generally accepted 1990-level) is something more “about the future”. According to this level, Japan [...]
11 Jun
Sweden: a Vattenfall-owned state?
CAN activists were stunned when meeting for a “bilateral” (lobbying) with the Swedish delegation at the Bonn Climate Talks today. Sweden holds the upcoming presidency of the EU and will speak for the EU in Copenahgen when the most important Climate Agreement of our time is suppose to be negotiated.
Vattenfall, the state-owned energy company from [...]
10 Jun
SBSTA conlcudes: no conclusion
I am sitting here in the Plenary II of the MAritim Hotel in Bonn. The SBSTA meeting (one of the sub-bodys of the process here) jsut ended. different “contact groups” (again smaller groups on more detailed issues) reported what was happening and how their drafts looked like. The SBSTA then is suppose to adopt them [...]
10 Jun
CAN Press-Briefing, Wednesday June 10th, Bonn Climate Talks
Here a small update from the CAN (Climate Action Network, the biggest Network of international NGOs) Press Briefing just a second ago:
- There is a positive change in tone at least compared to Poznan,we have seen generally good informal discussions.
- But there is a short-fall in terms of what we need: e.g. targets on financing.
- [...]
9 Jun
Where to put a comma?
The AWG-LCA is currently talking on the “Enhanced action on Adaptatione”. The Chair was telling the delegates waht submission have been made After discussion, a five minutes break (actually 15min) was held and now they type the submission – as delegations read them out loud – on a computer screened big on the stage. Sounds [...]
9 Jun
MEF takes over UNFCCC
According to “intelligence” (yes, they call it so!), the Major Economies Forum, hosted by Barack Obama, is becoming a rivalry event to the UNFCCC-process in which every country – independent of its GDP – has one vote. Obama said he wants a new version of the MEF after Pres. Bush tried to act against the [...]
8 Jun
Brave Southerners Blocked by Annex?
Just a second ago, Turkey was speaking out for a new Annex C in the revised Kyoto Protocol because some Parties might want to move up and take on more ambitious targets but cannot do so within the existing framework. South Africa and Gambia said that this is an issue for the other Working Group [...]
8 Jun
Bonn notes
I am sitting right now in the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP).
S. Africa want some kind of update on future agreement, can be mid-term review, doesn’t need to be
Columbia wants longer commitment period (c.p.), mid-term review in each period
Africa for longer period (=less discussion, safe time and money)
AOSIS: does [...]
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