It’s the last day of COP-17, and the final push begins. Most of the work is currently taking place in high-level ministerials, so there isn’t much to do now but sit and wait for news. Items one and two on the Duke delegation agenda: procuring some coffee after our late night last night (more to …
Category Archive: At Durban
Young People and the UNFCCC
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 …
The Domestic Kinetics of International Negotiations
Before my departure for Durban, the USCAN client group (including Ethan Case, Meera Fickling, Kimberly Wallis, and myself) compiled a list of initiatives being undertaken in the United States which may influence the US position on climate change. Pershing himself has stated, in relation to the Keystone Pipeline hubbub, ‘It doesn’t come up in the …
LCA: new and improved?
Right after I felt I had a grasp on the initial Long-Term Cooperative Action text, the Parties negotiating it decided they could agree upon enough changes to submit a new one. This morning, the new, amalgamated LCA text was up for grabs. Immediately upon snatching a copy of the now 138 page document, I stepped …