Time is the enemy now as negotiators scramble to get a deal done. While many ministers from developed countries have not left the negotiations, there are developing country delegates who can’t afford to change flights to be at the talks. This adds to the list of handicaps developing countries have in these negotiations and there’s …
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 …
Jonathan Pershing’s stated goals for outcomes in Durban include ‘making fully operational the mechanisms outlined in Copenhagen and Cancun’ (those being the Adaptation Committee, the Technology Committee, Green Climate Fund, and efforts towards transparency). As my Duke colleagues have covered well many of the big bullet point items in previous posts, I wish to provide …
So, just what is the hot-button issue at COP 17? According to one Argentinian negotiator: the Kyoto Protocol. With the the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period slated to end in 2012, the fate of the only legally binding climate agreement is in the hands of COP 17 negotiators. Here, a Kyoto supporter at a 2009 …