ECO 3, Bangkok 2011, English version

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Fossil of the Day
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 23:09

Extra Extra! The US wins the first Fossil of the Day for 2011! 

This fossil is formally presented for their complete refusal to accept the concept of a common/standardized accounting system for measuring national emissions reductions towards their target.  

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Building a Strong Adaptation Committee
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 23:06

Getting an effective and credible Adaptation Committee up and running in Durban will be a chance for parties to show their commitment to dealing with the consequences of climate change. ECO believes that the Committee is urgently needed to ensure coherence in implementation of the Cancun Adaptation Framework.

The Committee needs to get to work on identifying gaps in adaptation...

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Important Lessons From My Tuk Tuk Driver on Technology Transfer
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 23:04

1. Make sure you agree with your passengers from the outset on their destination. Otherwise everyone will end up unhappy and short changed.

Start by establishing the key issues and objectives for the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and their respective roles and interaction, including with national bodies.  ...

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ECO’s Agenda for Adoption
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 22:59

3. (TOO NARROW) Global goal for emission reductions and global peaking.

Expand this item to include a discussion on an equitable effort sharing agreement as this will allow Parties to agree on ambitious and science-based long-term goals by Durban.

3bis. (CURRENTLY MISSING) Mitigation.

While the workshops have been...

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Design by Committee
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 22:55

It seems incredible. In the age of super-advanced information technology, where communications of all kinds fly around the world and across borders in an instant, the countries in the UN Asian regional group felt that the only way they could agree their nominees to the Transitional Committee (TC) to design the Global Climate Fund was by meeting face-to-face. In a few short weeks,...

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Developing Country Mitigation Getting on Track but not Quite There Yet…
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 22:45

Yesterday’s second mitigation workshop put the spotlight on developing country actions. ECO was intrigued that developed countries didn’t use the opportunity to get payback for being grilled the day before on their pledges. This may have been, ECO speculates, because many developed countries are quite aware that their own pledges are pathetically below the 25-40% range, and full...

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Plan (and then DO) the work: Don’t bicker over the agenda
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 22:17

ECO has been impressed with the quality of both the presentations and Q&A sessions in the workshops over the past two days, and hopes parties will keep focused on content in the coming days.  Alas, we hear, parties are gearing up for a multiple day discussion about the agenda over the next three days, rather than developing a robust work programme for all of 2011.  ECO has been...

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