Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:52
#1 TURKEY
ROLE CONFUSION OVER
ANNEX I & MECHANISMS
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Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:51
You might have noticed ECO is having some targeted bilateral discussions in these pages. Today is with Norway. Time and time again we have reminded Parties of the urgent need to clarify the content of the pledges put on the table by developed countries.
On this issue, Norway has been an unwavering ally, and its credibility has been boosted by the transparent clarification of its own...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:48
Treating the world’s most carbon intensive fossil fuel as an emissions offset may sound like a joke but it’s no laughing matter.
You know, ECO is usually pretty quick on the uptake, but even we were shocked to learn that there are 45 – count them! -- coal projects in the CDM pipeline.
If all of the...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:46
ECO recognises that significant time and effort have gone into improving the transparency and technical robustness of Annex I Parties’ proposed reference levels for forest management.
However, although the review process achieved those objectives, this is in no way sufficient to ensure the environmental integrity of...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:44
Dear friends and colleagues,
During this African COP we honor the life and share great sadness in the passing of Mama Konate. He served as Director-General of the Mali Meteorological Service, permanent representative of Mali with WMO, former Chair of the...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:43
Last year in Cancun, Japan was heavily criticized and often appeared in media breaking stories when they announced that they would never accept the 2nd commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
A year later in Durban, the Japanese delegation seems a lot more relaxed. Nobody is writing about them and they haven’t even been designated for a Fossil yet.
Does this...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:40
ECO is here to help negotiators remove some brackets from that new MRV text that is hot off the press, and insert a few critical items that Parties have somehow forgotten.
So pick up your erasers (or warm up your Delete keys) and let’s get to work!
Stakeholder participation – Observer...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:37
This year marks a decade since the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) was established at COP 7 in Marrakesh to finance the most urgent adaptation needs of least developed countries. Unfortunately little is said about the LDCF...
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:35
If Durban is to be at least somewhat successful then Saturday’s release of the BASIC Experts paper on fair-shares global effort sharing will be recognized as a key breakthrough. That can help decide a 2nd commitment period for the KP while putting on the agenda serious consideration of a next generation mandate that’s fair enough...
