Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:16
#1 - Canada
For cognitive dissonance: won’t take a second commitment period but somehow claims, ‘no one is
trying to kill Kyoto’.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:15
Se suponía que la COP16 le correspondía a Latinoamérica, y que esto traería una oportunidad para generar no solo un diálogo en relación al tema de cambio climático, sino también para que nuestros países insertaran dentro de sus discursos y en las políticas nacionales el tema como una prioridad.
Sin embargo, al pasar...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:13
Over 200 civil society organisations today launch a call for a fair climate fund to be established this week in Cancun.
As ministers arrive to face the vital political challenges around the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, sufficient political time and energy must be spared to ensure substantive outcomes on issues that really matter to those suffering from climate change’s...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:11
We are starting the crucial final week. Ministers are being briefed, crucial new texts are being minutely analyzed and insect bites are spreading. With so many difficult, complex and itchy matters competing for attention, it might be easy to overlook one fact. We have only two years to get climate finance flowing at scale before fast start finance expires in 2013. But there’s...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:09
Ministers, would you like a glowing ECO article with your name on it?
As you delve into the unresolved issues with the KP, the first thing you need to know is that the main proposal for LULUCF doesn’t ensure a robust, environmentally sound approach to forest management accounting. While sorting this out may seem daunting when you are presented with the complex draft...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:08
Economies are stressed and lending rates are high. Here at COP 16 it is the negotiators who are stressed and their blood pressures run high as they struggle to close the gaping wound that is the Gigatonne Gap. But fortunately, there are doctors in the house, and their climate checkup tells us about the benefits of addressing our emissions addictions.
We would all agree that exercise...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:06
The lack of attention to the environmental integrity of the CDM is a stain on the reputation of international efforts. In December 2009, the CDM Executive Board registered its first coal-fired power project, setting off two reactions: a firestorm of criticism from around the world and a wave of opportunistic applications from other coal projects.
Rather than heed the well-founded...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:05
The phrases ‘legal form’ and ‘anchoring of pledges’ are on everyone’s lips in the corridors and sidewalks of the Moon Palace. While these are indeed crucial issues, like many of the Parties who spoke at Saturday’s stocktaking plenaries, ECO wants to see serious work this week on mitigation content for both the KP and LCA.
Looking first at the KP, if...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:03
Delegates, maybe it’s time to make an
appointment with the eye doctor. Your shared vision has gotten alarmingly cloudy. Science now tells us that temperature increase above 1.5o C will result in substantial environmental and socioeconomic consequences. Yet, turning a blind eye to recent research, the new LCA text drops any reference to the 1.5o C target,...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 11:00
Dear Ministers, it’s ECO again. We welcome your early arrival and commitment to a global agreement on climate change!
Your delegations have been working hard. In front of you are choices that have been clearly laid out by delegates with the assistance of your capable LCA Chair and facilitators. We trust that you bring flexibility and a strong desire to agree options that...
