It’s Wednesday, December 7th. For the second time within the past week, a new comprehensive text on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA) has been released. This time 138 pages vs. the 131 pages of the LCA text released this past Saturday. For comparison, the charter document of the UNFCCC was only 22 pages while the Kyoto …
Over the past week and a half, I have been negotiating REDD+ text and issues with the Philippine delegation. It is my first year as a party delegate (I participated as an observer in previous COPs), so I thought I would share some of my ‘delegate’ experiences as well as the progress we’ve made on …
The second week at COP is certainly busy- the number of people in the ICC seems to have doubled, people are walking faster and the conversation in the corridors is hushed. Although the negotiations are ramping up, our ability to access them is decreasing. There are press briefings and webcasts of some open meetings available …
The interaction between climate change policy, international development and human rights is one of the things that makes reaching an agreement in Durban so challenging. One topic in which this interaction is explicit is the social and economic impacts on developing nations of developed nation actions to combat climate change. For one example, policies to …