The key issue on everyone’s mind: the fate of the Kyoto Protocol. Will Parties emerge with some sort of a concrete agreement or will Durban be regarded as more politicking with little meaningful action? With only a few short hours left, negotiators have been working into the early hours desperately attempting to bridge the divisions …
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 …
The forestry realm finds its way into the negotiations in 2 policies: REDD+ and LULUCF. Most of you may be familiar with REDD+, which is a mechanism being negotiated to reduce greenhouse gases (ghg) essentially through halting deforestation and enhancing carbon in forests for developing countries– this is addressed in the AWG-LCA. We’ve had some …
Our team has addressed in this blog many of the substantive issues being negotiated here in South Africa. But, why and how is the world addressing these issues at COP17? Allow me to give a brief overview of the legal background in which the negotiations are taking place, the process that guides negotiations involving 192 different …