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CAN SIDE EVENT –
4 Oct 2011
Scaling-up Climate Finance from 2013 16:30-18:00 – Miraflores (Sheraton) How to ensure sufficient and scalable longterm public climate finance starting in 2013, after the end of FSF. CAN will discuss the need for new and additional budget contributions and assess options for mobilizing supplementary sources of innovative public finance, consistent with CBDR.
Scientific Integrity in the UNFCCC?!
3 Oct 2011
ECO appreciates the critical role of the IPCC, which provides scientific input to the UNFCCC process and led to the Convention itself and its Kyoto Protocol. But how will this link continue in future? Yesterday’s technical briefing by the IPCC was meant to explore how this link will continue in the future and how the […]
Reassessing priorities on long-term finance
3 Oct 2011
Back in Bonn, Eco complained that the finance negotiations seemed more concerned with designing finance institutions than deciding where the long-term finance to fund them should come from. The result could be a Green Climate Fund that is an empty shell, and a Standing Committee that is left to stand still. Paying a quick visit […]
The Mandate
3 Oct 2011
Yesterday, ECO noted that there are three groups of countries in the legal form negotiations that each need to bring proposals to the table at Durban: the KP developed countries, the non-KP Annex I Parties and the developing countries. ALL the developed countries that have ratified their Annex B targets for the first commitment period […]
Handing out medals in the LULU-lympics
3 Oct 2011
Looking at the new reports being posted on the UNFCCC website, ECO feels some empathy for the reviewers tasked with ‘judging’ the forest management reference levels. Since there was no agreement on the rules for reference levels, each Party has had to do its own thing. And the results look as disjointed as a talent […]
Building Capacity Building
2 Oct 2011
Just as CAN's approach to mitigation has always been for Parties to focus on the reality of "What the atmosphere actually sees", so CAN's approach to capacity building (CB) in the LCA has always been for Parties to concentrate on the realities on the ground. These realities are four-fold: 1) The vast majority of Parties […]
Breaking news: 5.8% increase in global CO2 emissions in 2010
2 Oct 2011
Parties, we have a problem!!! Global CO2 emissions did a full swing after the recession, growing more than 5% in 2010, according to a report published last week by the Netherlands Environmental Protection Agency. The highest increase in the last two decades fuels the climate crisis. Without accounting for the land-use sector, global CO2 emissions […]
Don’t Lose Sight of the Laggards
2 Oct 2011
ECO has consistently called for a second commitment period to the Kyoto Protocol and has long decried the decision of George Bush not to ratify the KP. Furthermore, ECO is dismayed that the countries that respectively put the Kyoto in the KP, brought it into force and started negotiations for its second commitment period – […]
A Disturbing Disturbance
2 Oct 2011
Parties don’t want to have to account for forestry emissions not caused by humans, like wildfires. Fair enough you might say, but this is being used as another attempt to hide emissions. Until recently, only events classified as force majeure – large-scale events beyond the control of Parties – would be excluded. However, the language […]
Panama: Progress or Paralysis?
1 Oct 2011
Durban is shaping up as a critical moment in the 20-year history of the climate regime. The world can either build on what has been created in the Kyoto Protocol, raise the level of ambition as demanded by the science, and provide sufficient finance to meet developing countries’ needs for adaptation, mitigation, and REDD. Or […]