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Conflicting positions are undermining efforts to find agreement on greenhouse gas reductions. Delegates at the recent climate talks in Bonn made no progress on binding targets to reduce carbon emissions, nor were they able to agree on a deal to replace the soon to expire Kyoto Protocol.
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Despite the flourishing rhetoric at the outset of the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen last December, by the time the conference got underway it was already apparent that the degree of tension and mistrust between the developed and developing world would likely hobble efforts to negotiate a “fair and binding” agreement to deal with climate change at an international level.
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Current UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addressed the press this morning (see video below) in advance of the first UN climate negotiations next week in Bonn. Soon to be succeeded by incoming Executive Secretary designate Christiana Figueres, de Boer may harbor some relief in not charged with shepherding the next major climate conference, COP16, later this year in Cancún, Mexico.
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
(reposted with permission)
Environmental advocates from around the world gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week and resolved that, a year from now, they would hold a world’s people referendum on climate change to marshal support for the rights of the planet.
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A leaked internal document commissioned by the Chinese environment ministry and written by a Chinese government think-tank claims that “A conspiracy by developed nations to divide the camp of developing nations [was] a success.”
Continue Reading Memo Reveals China Fears Developed Nation “Conspiracy” at COP15 Climate Conference
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Despite near instantaneous condemnation of his role in the culmination of the COP15 climate negotiations last week, president Obama voiced his frustration over the course those negotiations took and accord that resulted from them.
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As the huge build-up and anticipation of the COP15 climate conference begins now to recede into history and the world peers down the road to Mexico City and COP16, I take stock of my own experience in Copenhagen and what I think of the process and result of the two-week climate negotiations.
Continue Reading COP15 and the Copenhagen Accord – A Flawed Process, A Flawed Outcome
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Nelson Muffah speaks to journalists after a daily press briefing from Climate Action Network International on the progress of climate negotiations at COP15 in Copenhagen. Muffah is the Senior Climate Change Advocacy Advisor for Christian Aid.
Continue Reading Nelson Muffah of Christian Aid: “We Are Not on Track” at COP15
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer’s press briefing from the Bella Center for day two of COP15:
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