The Leadership Development Program (LDP) is one of CAN’s cornerstone programs that aims to strengthen its national and regional nodes and build professional leadership within the network....
Double Your Pleasure, Halve Your Pollution!
Fast Facts About Countries That Can Increase Their Ambition in Qatar!
Bonus Double Saturday Edition!
| National term of endearment/greeting: | Garçon! (only for use in oldstyle cafés, in Paris, by innocent foreigners) |
| Annual wine consumption: | 54 litres/person/year (decreasing due to Frech winery climate change impacts) |
| Annual cheese consumption: | 24 kgs/person/year (increasing to make up for decreased wine drinking) |
| Best things about France: | The wine and the cheese (see above). Beaches in Brittany up north now that one can enjoy warm and sunny summers there (see: global warming). |
| Worst things about France: | Dangerous addiction to nuclear energy. Unemployment due to lack of green jobs (see: dangerous addiction to nuclear energy). |
| Things you didn't know: | Frog legs taste just like chicken. |
| Existing unconditional pledge on the table: | The EU's 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Existing conditional pledge (upper end): | The EU's 30% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Next step to increase ambition by COP18: | This year: a KP QELRO consistent with cuts of at least 30% below 1990 levels by 2020. And a commitment to work in the ADP process to raise ambition to 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Rationale: | The EU, including France, is close to reaching its 2020 target, a mere 8 years, too early. Moving to an interim 30% target this year would be honest, boost our economy, provide jobs and reduce health budgets. What else can a new President want? |
Related Event:
Bonn Climate Change Conference 2012