Jeff Gustafson

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Name: Jeff Gustafson
Date registered: September 28, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Seeing Through the Fog of Negotiations — December 10, 2011
  2. COP17: The Soundtrack — December 9, 2011
  3. Young People and the UNFCCC — December 7, 2011
  4. The High Level Segment Begins — December 6, 2011
  5. Duke University Live Covers COP17 Delegation — December 2, 2011

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  2. Accreditation Breakthrough — 1 comment
  3. Delegation Off to a Great Start — 1 comment

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Seeing Through the Fog of Negotiations

Leaving the ICC.

The closing of COP17 was supposed to be last night, but ministers and negotiators are still working into the afternoon today, scrambling to keep the talks from failing.  As is always the case, the final days of the two-week conference are the busiest – and this year with the fate of the Kyoto Protocol and …

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COP17: The Soundtrack

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It’s almost midnight on the last night of COP17 and we’re waiting for the next round of ministerial meetings to start.  Regardless of what emerges from the fog tomorrow, it has been a truly amazing two weeks working together on the front lines of the talks.  In addition to our blogs and pictures, we present …

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Young People and the UNFCCC

Young Americans meet with Jonathan Pershing.

As thousands of delegates stream past in the halls of the International Conference Center in Durban, a number of young people wearing pointy green hats call out to the crowd in support of a financial transaction tax (FTT).  A FTT levied on global financial trading has the potential to generate more than one-hundred-billion-dollars annually and …

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The High Level Segment Begins

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The International Convention Center is packed.  Every table and chair is taken, the cafeterias are overflowing, the hallways full, and every electricity outlet plugged.  The High Level Segment has begun and presidents, prime ministers, and environmental ministers are arriving to address the conference. Negotiators from every country have spent the past week preparing texts for …

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