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Bring Your Finance Ministers to Warsaw
10 Jul 2013
Henriette Imelda Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) As the SBs session in Bonn ended in June, there were several issues that still need to be clarified. The climate finance issue is amongst the crucial issues that was barely discussed in the session. The fact that now there are so many different entities that need to […]
Strategies, Working Groups and Regional Cooperation in Bonn
9 Jul 2013
Vositha Wijenayake CAN South Asia It has been a little tough to put words together to come up with a sensible piece of writing for the second half of the Bonn sessions. It could be that there were so many things I wanted to write on, and then the brain would fail at picking […]
“Apple of discord” on SBI 38
9 Jul 2013
Andrey Zhelieznyi The National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) International cooperation on tackling climate change has a deadline for a new global agreement in 2015. The agreement must be ambitious, legal and fair. Before this can be agreed a lot has to be done at the Un climate negotiations. The regular session ended in June, […]
2014. A year full of challenges, big time!
28 Jun 2013
Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis Fundación Biosfera, CANLA In Bonn GRULAC endorsed Peru’s nomination as COP host for 2014. In the last day of negotiations, Peru’s Minister of Environment himself notified Parties about Peru being the COP 20 presidency. This is great news for Latin America; and the COP will certainly bring a lot of focus on […]
Diversity is the word
26 Jun 2013
Photo: IISD Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis Fundación Biosfera, CANLA Following the Latin America and the Caribbean regions in the UNFCCC negotiations is sometimes difficult. The region has numerous and diverse countries; Brazil and Mexico are large countries that have larger economies and then countries like Haiti and Nicaragua are on the other end of the spectrum, […]
CAN’s Leadership Development Programme and Its relevance to the South
19 Jun 2013
Sixbert Simon Mwanga Climate Action Network-Tanzania Yes, it is true that CAN is the largest and most vibrant network in the world working on climate change. Members of the Network work closely to address the causes and harmful impacts of climate change. About 850 NGOs invigolate CAN’s coordination in more than 90 countries of […]
Obviously the world is changing…
19 Jun 2013
Lama Ghaddar IndyACT Changes are happening on different levels: political, economic and demographic. Arabs’ policies are changing too… the Arab region is already being impacted by climate change. They will have to survive through important economic challenges and environmental threats in the near future. Arabs countries were drilling the earth for black gold and […]
Stop Your Finger Pointing
14 Jun 2013
Delegates: whilst you sat around the Maritim fountain enjoying the balmy weather, Germany suffered historic flooding. It’s a pity the flooding was the physical variety, and not a flood of ambition washing over these negotiations. The SBI drowning in Russian bile was the disappointing low point of the last fortnight. Really? In two weeks you […]
Looking for Ambition in Warsaw and Beyond? Tune In to Equity
14 Jun 2013
ECO is very pleased to note that the volume on CAN’s proposal for the Equity Reference Framework has been turned up at the Bonn session. ECO now asks Parties that they go back home and add it to their favourite playlists to keep them inspired between now and September, when they will turn in […]
Ludwig: Missing in (re)action….
14 Jun 2013
ECO notices that Costa Rica is missing a delegate. Missing in action? Could it be related to her opposition to a Chinese loan for a new oil refinery in a country which pledged carbon neutrality by 2021?