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Scientific Reality Check Desperately Needed
6 Oct 2011
Lack of ambition? Actions don’t meet the urgency? There is help for that: the Review agreed in Cancun is a key tool to re-inject ambition and a sense of urgency as well as collective responsibility into the climate regime – all of which seems to have been lost in recent years. It is the scientific […]
What’s expected from the US
5 Oct 2011
Earlier this week, ECO started exploring ideas for what two of the three main groups of countries – Kyoto Annex 1 countries and developing countries – need to decide to bring to the table to enable a successful Durban climate summit. These articles have of course been far from comprehensive, as there are other important […]
Mixed Signals from the Land Down Under
5 Oct 2011
Australia, the land down under, has an interesting position on a Kyoto CP2 at these talks. Their proposed Clean Energy Future legislation is currently going through their parliament and looks set to be passed prior to Durban. If this is the case, Australia will have a fixed price on carbon emissions, covering 500 companies, before […]
Midweek MRV
5 Oct 2011
Halfway through the meeting in Panama, ECO would like to present an assessment of progress made thus far. Overall, ECO is happy to note that Parties are very busy preparing and discussing text. There are still potential storm clouds on the horizon for Durban, however ECO hopes that by the end of this week Parties […]
Balboa
5 Oct 2011
Balboa is disappointed — but not surprised — with the news coming out of Washington these days. It seems that the State Department has been receiving some ‘significant counsel’ from well-connected corporate lobbyists while conducting a review for the Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL is a 1,700-mile fuse to the largest Carbon bomb on the […]
Negotiating (iphone) Technology On The Way To Durban
5 Oct 2011
Manjeet Dhakal Clean Energy Nepal Program Director Nepal One of my hobbies that I love is to use new and recently developed applications and technologies. On my last birthday, I was blessed with an 'iphone' from my colleague. I was very excited that day; I threw party on the same night when I got […]
Increasing Ambition & Common Accounting – What are you Waiting for?
4 Oct 2011
As negotiations have now gone into a somewhat un-transparent mode, ECO had little choice but to catch delegates on their way out of the developed country mitigation informal yesterday – and was pleasantly surprised that indeed Parties used the session to address two of the elephants in the room – the lack of ambition of […]
Stepping up the Adaptation Committee
4 Oct 2011
ECO is pleased to see that adaptation negotiators are getting busy with detailed discussions on the Adaptation Committee. Since this is the only adaptation issue currently on the LCA agenda here in Panama, we expect progress towards taking a decision in Durban, especially before negotiators start enjoying the train ride along the Panama Canal (Tourist […]
Unlearned Lessons From Fukushima
4 Oct 2011
ECO cannot stop wondering; what will it take to make Japan come to its senses? Nuclear is neither safe nor clean. If the ongoing, dreadful tragedies in Fukushima cannot make this simple fact clear, what will it take? And still, in the KP spin off group meeting yesterday, Japan, supported by India, once again refused […]
Annex I Accounting – Not Just About Transparency
4 Oct 2011
Since June, there has been much attention paid to the topic of Annex I accounting. This has been reiterated in the open session on mitigation. There does seem to be some convergence on the need for transparency of assumptions underlying Annex I targets. This is absolutely critical and in line with the provisions of the […]