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Denmark Lays the ZCAP Groundwork
8 Oct 2010
Copenhagen brings back many memories. Long, freezing queues outside the Bella Centre, a COP president oblivious to basic UN procedures, and most importantly, no FAB (fair, ambitious, binding) deal. Who would think that Denmark, less than a year later, would be the place making ambitious progress in the fight against climate change! Only a fool […]
[VOICE] Global Climate Talks and Constitution Making in Nepal: A Comparison
8 Oct 2010
Global Climate Change talks and the process of constitution making in Nepal has several similarities. The agreement made in Bali, Indonesia (resulting in the Bali Action Plan) and the provision in the Interim Constitution of Nepal. Both the processes had similar mandates – two years for drafting a new agreement respectively on a fair, ambitious […]
The Legal Impasse: High Noon at the KP Corral
8 Oct 2010
There are a number of puzzled-looking lawyers in the hallways in Tianjin right now, and ECO admits as well to being puzzled by the refusal of China and Brazil to allow the legal matters contact group to discuss elements set out in the KP chair’s scenario note this week. It seems that since the beginning […]
Learning from the global fund
7 Oct 2010
One may well wonder, what could the climate change debate possibly learn from other fields? ECO looked around a bit and discovered some interesting things about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The recent replenishment meeting of the Global Fund ended earlier this week in New York. And despite the lingering recession […]
Turning Opportunities Into Problems
7 Oct 2010
The REDD+ Partnership has spent hours and days agonising on whether and how to involve stakeholders in the decision on how they should participate in the Partnership’s deliberations. This has proved far more controversial than one would expect in a voluntary partnership. Originally an item to be discussed and resolved last Saturday and Sunday in […]
The Next Time the Water Rises
7 Oct 2010
The El Nino/La Nina-related monsoon floods that have devastated Pakistan since July highlight the fast growing need for an international risk transfer mechanism for weather-related events. With the sheer size and protracted duration of the disaster, as well as donor fatigue, disaster response funding has fallen far short of the mark in Pakistan’s time of […]
Bunkers Has an Important Shipment to Deliver
7 Oct 2010
The final report of the Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) that was established by the UN Secretary General early in 2010 may be the most anticipated document in the climate negotiations these days. In November, the AGF panel is expected to deliver recommendation on the crucial question of how to generate, at a […]
[VOICE] Ivory Coast: The Water , Energy and Climate Change Nexus
7 Oct 2010
Over the past several decades, Ivory Coast like many countries in West Africa has experienced intense drought events. This was the consequences of an estimated gap of about -20% to -60% in rainfall which resulted in a deficit of river runoff ranging from -30% to -80% as reported by several scientific studies. Meanwhile, the social […]
[VOICE] My Tuvalu
7 Oct 2010
Climate Change is one of the very hot issues in Tuvalu and the government is putting in its utmost effort to address this issue at the national level and also at the international level. Citizens of most countries in the world have never heard of our tiny islands in the Pacific. Although I am proud […]
The Cancun Building Blocks
6 Oct 2010
Whilst parties are coming to the realisation that we need to move on from ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’, there is not much movement yet toward ‘nothing is agreed until enough is agreed’. For those who don’t yet have a firm grasp on what ‘enough’ is, have no fear. ECO is here to […]