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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘COP-15’
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 [...]
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 [...]
26 Jul
EU and China get closer – or at least more concrete
While MEF – the Major Economics Forum, a meeting of the 17 biggest economies under Obamas leadership – agreed on a 2°C-goal in the fight against climate change (no, this is not enough to protect vulnerable countries, but it is not considered “catastrophic” by western scientists) and China and the US engage in bilateral talks, [...]
22 Jul
Climate Justice Action with new website!
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19 Jun
Positive Wrap-Up of Bonn Negotiations
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 [...]
14 Jun
World leaders might miss C(limate)-Day…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged to attend the COP 15 summit in Copenhagen in December personally after Greenpeace kicked off a big campaign aimed at World leaders. The Campaign lobbies for the head of states to come to Copenhagen and Tusks coming is now celebrated by Greenpeace.
I find it frightening that leaders have to [...]
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 [...]
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