“Various Approaches” text to go to ministers
Durban, 9 Dec (Payal Parekh) – With no consensus in the Informal group tasked with Various Approaches including opportunities for using markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, […]
Activists beaten at COP17 by Durban ‘volunteers’
by CANAAN MDLETSHEand NIVASHNI NAIR. Published in Times Live The heavy-handed actions of the “green bombers” – so called by activists because of their green uniforms and aggression – and […]
Durban Diary: Climate Reality Check
December 9, 2011 · By Janet Redman International climate negotiations, like those now grinding through their second week in Durban, South Africa, are generally rife with spin and counter spin. […]
In the face of doomed negotiations: CLIMATE Asia Pacific calls for Wider Climate Change Education and Genuine Solutions
We have an urgent environmental crisis, but the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 17th Conference of Parties that ends now in Durban, South Africa has remained stuck […]
Mic Check: Protesters take up camp inside COP17 conference centre
by Tim McSorley, Published in The Media Coop At 15h00 local time in Durban, SA (8am EST), dozens of protesters gathered inside the International Conference Centre where the COP17 negotiations […]
No more delays, No more deception, No more evasion!
Since Copenhagen we have witnessed the escalation of efforts by developed countries, led by the United States, to undermine and overturn Climate Convention principles and legally binding agreements. Governments of […]
Factsheets on A1 vs. nA1 pledges and mitigation loopholes
A COMPARISON OF PLEDGES WHO PLANS TO ACT? TARGETS COULD DISAPPEAR INTO LOOPHOLES
New UK climate finance package ‘will push up developing countries’ debt’
A new climate change finance package, announced today by Chris Huhne, will push up developing countries’ debt, say campaigners from the World Development Movement.
New market-based mechanism debated in “Various Approaches” text
Durban, 8 Dec (Payal Parekh and Trudi Zundel) – The establishment of a new market-based mechanism for mitigation actions continues to be discussed with differing views among Parties to the […]