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From the Archives – Looking Back At the LCA
1 Sep 2012
ECO was feeling a bit nostalgic, what with all this talk about the LCA and what comes next. So, it dug through the ECO archives and came across this article from Bonn 2008 on what the LCA could deliver. ECO hopes it brings out the same mixed feelings for you as it did for […]
LCA Kolouring Corner – by ECO, age 6
1 Sep 2012
Parties! – Join ECO and draw in the crucial LCA decisions you'll finalise in Doha! Don't be shy – everyone can be a policy artist. Examples: Close ambition gap Transparency Common accounting Long-term financing for art classes for ECO
A Tenuous Linkage
30 Aug 2012
ECO cautiously welcomes the announcement made this week by Australia and the EU that they have entered into negotiations to link their carbon trading schemes by 2018. If implemented with ambition, this could be a positive step toward greater international cooperation in carbon pollution reductions. However, ECO wants to respectfully remind delegates that if two […]
Decision 1/CP.18: Close the Ambition Gap!!
30 Aug 2012
What do the Beijing and Manila floods, US drought and hurricanes, and record low Arctic summer sea ice cover tell us? That climate impacts are a reality and, particularly with respect to sea ice, are happening faster than we thought. Report after report also tells us that current mitigation pledges are insufficient. It is clear […]
Australia and the KP: True Love or a One Night Stand?
30 Aug 2012
Australia and the KP: True Love or a One Night Stand? Dear Australia, I‘ve been waiting for your call for months now. When we first met you gave me flowers and whispered sweet promises and commitments in my ear. Though you’ve taken years to take our friendship further, we have now been seeing each […]
Angels and Demons?
30 Aug 2012
ANGELS and DEMONS? Welcome again to the Krung Thep, the city of angels. ECO hopes that this location will inspire delegates to put aside their devilish disagreements and instead move forward in a spirit of angelic cooperation in the fight against climate change and its deadly impacts. The recent flooding in Manila, the typhoon coming […]
Cooking up New Mystery Mechanisms (NMM)
30 Aug 2012
Since the decision to establish a new market mechanism (NMM) and an international framework for new bilateral or regional market mechanisms at COP17 in Durban, ECO hasn’t noticed much progress. None of the details have been worked out and even insiders are unclear about what new mechanisms could look like and what the role of […]
The Rio Gap
22 Jun 2012
One of the key obstacles to achieving sustainable development is agreeing who will carry the burden. Stopping environmental degradation requires resources. Some argue those resources could be needed somewhere else, such as eradicating poverty. So it could appear that the need to eradicate poverty and the need to stop environmental degradation are in conflict. ECO […]
Dear Mr. Prime Minister…
21 Jun 2012
In a disappointing and disheartening plenary session today, the Brazilian chair adopted the watered down draft text to be taken to world leaders tomorrow to formally adopt. As delegations clapped away at our failed future, civil society loudly protested from the back of the plenary hall. As a last attempt to salvage this summit, civil […]
Statement NGOs Major Group during High-Level Plenary session – 20th of June
21 Jun 2012
delivered by Wael Hmaidan, Climate Action Network Watch the presentation Wael delivered to Rio+20 on behalf of NGOs at Rio. Thank you, Vice-President. I am making this statement on behalf of the NGOs in Rio+20. It feels amazing to be in this room among all the world leaders, and feeling all this […]