Nairobi ECO Issue 1

Rising Stakes in Nairobi by dturnbull — last modified 2006-11-05 19:16

Climate Action Network (CAN) sees this meeting in Nairobi as a crucial opportunity to ensure a process capable of producing a global agreement able to meet the challenge of preventing dangerous climate change and building on the tracks mapped out in Montreal.

Adapt Your Priorities by dturnbull — last modified 2006-11-05 18:04

Welcome to Africa, the frontline of climate impacts. Developing country delegates, representatives of African nations, this is your time to lead. This is your home court. Use it well.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by dturnbull — last modified 2006-11-05 18:04

The Convention has seen some outstanding Presidents and some ordinary ones. Canada’s Rona Ambrose was neither. She might have the best hair of any COP President, but she will be remembered as the worst COP President in the history of the climate convention.

A Stern Warning by dturnbull — last modified 2006-11-05 18:05

Delegates cannot have failed to notice a chunky 700-page report addressing the economic implications of climate change which came out last week. The report, led by Sir Nicholas Stern, clearly demonstrates that governments can afford to act – and must do so urgently – to avoid disastrous economic costs in the future. An investment of just 1 per cent in the global economy will avoid costs of 10 per cent, Stern says to show that measures to tackle climate change will have economic benefits.