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Have You Done Your Stretches?
6 Dec 2018
ECO has been running back-and-forth from the negotiations in areas B and D to side events in area G. ECO is getting quite the exercise! However, ECO forgot to stretch before exercising €“ and now, ECO feels sore. ECO hopes that Parties in the transparency negotiations don’t make the same mistake. We all know that […]
Equity in the Global Stocktake – Good Text. Let’s Improve It, Not Lose It
6 Dec 2018
Fortunately, the Saudis aren’t in charge of the Global Stocktake. ECO notes this because yesterday Saudi Arabia, speaking for the Arab Group, called for the term “ambition mechanism” to be deleted from the GST text. Why? Because apparently this would pre-judge the outcome of the GST (see also, Fossil of the Day). As if the […]
It’s Not Sufficient to Avert and Minimise if We Forget to Address
6 Dec 2018
Yesterday we were treated to the draft decision text of the report of the Executive Committee (Ex-Com) of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts. The report starts off well, highlighting the forthcoming review of the WIM, seeking inputs to the terms of reference for the review, and […]
Fossil of the Day
6 Dec 2018
Saudi ArabiaOn Behalf of the Arab Group It’s great to be consistent €“ reliable is good, right? Seems old habits die hard, especially if your allies keep the door open for you … So, given that we are at COP 24, it is no shock that there are some offenders that keep on coming back. This […]
Switzerland Astray: Parliament Decides to Kill the Domestic Reduction Target
6 Dec 2018
ECO still cannot believe what happened in Switzerland earlier this week! While we all listened carefully to President Alain Berset’s opening speech on Monday, reminding everyone (in particular his MPs it seems) that”we can only succeed […] if all states €“ really all €“ reduce their emissions”,his Parliament back home almost simultaneously decided to abolish […]
12 Years Left: What Have You Done to Respond to the SR1.5?
5 Dec 2018
ECO was blown away by the SBSTA-IPCC presentation yesterday. The IPCC started off with a presentation that not only woke up weary delegates in the plenary but also woke them up (if they had somehow missed it previously) to the urgency of the need to act. The IPCC stressed that if Parties want to stay […]
Planning a Koronovia Bumper Crop
5 Dec 2018
Koronivia is a long way from Katowice, but progress on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) at COP24 is well within reach. Every farmer knows that success depends on maximizing the time avail-able within the growing season. This means knowing the landscape with-in which you are working, assembling the resources you need to do […]
3 Billion Reasons to Freak Out About Brazil
5 Dec 2018
Brazil, the birthplace of UNFCCC and a so far trusted broker of the Paris Agreement negotiations, is about to become one of the world’s climate rogues. All thanks to president-elect Jair Bolsonaro and his set of very peculiar ideas about climate change and the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro is not even in power yet and has […]