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Adaptation Fund overlooked because there’s a new kid in town?
15 Jun 2014
While we all breathlessly wait for big money to hit the GCF (US$15 billion in pledges is expected by the end of this year), ECO would like to remind everyone that there are other funds in dire need of money too. One of them, the Adaptation Fund, which has projects ready to be implemented in […]
Assessing the assessment phase discussion: part II
15 Jun 2014
ECO thinks that the ADP has a pretty simple job in designing the next phases of the INDCs process. After completing the information requirements, we simply need an INDCs assessment phase, as pointed out by AILAC and Palau. The first step of the assessment phase is – you guessed it- all parties submitting INDCs by […]
Tony Abbott’s plan: surreal and catastrophic
15 Jun 2014
Australian Prime Minister Abbott’s fossil fuel celebration tour got even more surreal yesterday when he donned a cowboy hat in Texas. Abbott also offered up his long term view on the prospects for coal —he believes that it will fuel human progress for many decades to come. Meanwhile, here in Bonn, delegates were treated to a […]
Well done Germany, what about coal?
15 Jun 2014
ECO was delighted to hear that Germany has decided to stop export credit guarantees for nuclear installations abroad. Well done to our hosts – but here’s our first question: why did it take 13 years to draw the logical consequence from the 2001 decision to phase-out nuclear power? Only three years ago, the conservative-liberal government […]
ECO’s Climate Summit expectations
15 Jun 2014
As the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit approaches, we are sure Parties, investors and businesses are wondering how to pack their bags and appropriately prepare for New York this September. ECO would like to help. We know that Parties sometimes struggle with long lists of things they need to prepare. There is a regrettable tendency for […]
Happy Global Wind Day
15 Jun 2014
Global wind power has already crossed the 300 GW mark. Installed capacity now equals the capacity of all power plants in South and Central America! The wind industry provides 650,000 jobs worldwide. Wind power is cheap and ready to go. In Australia, power can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of […]
Happy Global Wind Day
15 Jun 2014
Global wind power has already crossed the 300 GW mark. Installed capacity now equals the capacity of all power plants in South and Central America! The wind industry provides 650,000 jobs worldwide. Wind power is cheap and ready to go. In Australia, power can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of […]
Thank you
14 Jun 2014
A heartening moment occurred yesterday before an informal conversation on the coordination of support for REDD+. Many Parties, literally, stood side by side with NGOs and refused to enter the meeting room until the NGOs were also allowed in – which they eventually were. ECO thanks the Parties involved and hopes that this sort of Party-driven support […]
After an ‘own goal’ on consultation, Brazil is back in the lead
14 Jun 2014
Yesterday, ECO reported that Brazil had failed to consult with Brazilian civil society before submitting its Reference Levels to the UNFCCC, and that it had not yet made the submission public. Today, we are pleased to report that the submission has been published on the Brazilian government website, apparently while yesterday’s article was in press. […]
EU’s Kyoto ratification and Poland – the sequel
14 Jun 2014
Dear Reader, do you remember when ECO wrote, a few nights ago, about Poland being a total bully, again, and trying to use the EU’s KP ratification as a bargaining chip for the upcoming 2030 discussions in the EU? Here comes the sequel: yep, you heard it right— this is what is happening. Two days […]