ECO 2, Panama 2011, English version

October 02 2011 • 11:23
by MBrockley
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Building Capacity Building
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 10:06

Just as CAN's approach to mitigation has always been for Parties to focus on the reality of "What the atmosphere actually sees", so CAN's approach to capacity building (CB) in the LCA has always been for Parties to concentrate on the realities on the ground.  These realities are four-fold:

1) The vast...

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Breaking news: 5.8% increase in global CO2 emissions in 2010
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 10:01

Parties, we have a problem!!!

Global CO2 emissions did a full swing after the recession, growing more than 5% in 2010, according to a report published last week by the Netherlands Environmental Protection Agency. The highest increase in the last two decades fuels the climate crisis. Without accounting for the land-use sector, global CO2 emissions reached 33 billion...

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Don’t Lose Sight of the Laggards
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 09:56

ECO has consistently called for a second commitment period to the Kyoto Protocol and has long decried the decision of George Bush not to ratify the KP.  Furthermore, ECO is dismayed that the countries that respectively put the Kyoto in the KP, brought it into force and started...

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A Disturbing Disturbance
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 09:50

Parties don’t want to have to account for forestry emissions not caused by humans, like wildfires. Fair enough you might say, but this is being used as another attempt to hide emissions.

Until recently, only events classified as force majeure - large-scale events beyond the control of Parties - would be excluded...

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