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COP16: Mad – Bad – or Sad?

As late last week the UNFCCC shot down the business community’s proposal for an enhanced engagement with the UNFCCC process, businesses struggle to get their messages across during the Cancun meetings. As the negotiators continued to deliberate in the Moon Palace, the businesses gathered for the Global Business Day on Monday. There, in a great [...]

The 4th Global Business Day that the ICC and WBSCD have put together alongside COPs was opened by Christiana Figueres, the UNFCCC Secretary, at the beginning of the second week of the Cancun negotiations. Having reached the halfway mark of the negotiations in Cancun, Christiana spoke of the progress that has been made. To no [...]

Cancun highlights: day 4 (and a bit of day 5)

The REEEP SEAP team started the Thursday (2 December 2010) with a quick bus trip to the Cancun Messe to attend the BINGO meeting. For the rest of the day, most of the COP meetings were informal session and observers were not allowed to sit in. Some delegates, still “traumatised by Copenhagen,” expressed concerns over [...]

COP16 – day three highlights

Wednesday side event day The REEEP Southeast Asia and Pacific team decided to avoid the long bus ride and attend three IETA side events off-site, at the Westin Resort, instead. We learnt that “yes” not always means “will do it”. On our question whether the bus driver would let us off the bus at a [...]

Cancún and logistics

After the difficulties in Copenhagen with access to the venue, the admissions to COP16 have been severely restricted. Unlike a year ago, we didn’t witness hours-long queues at registrations or security. In fact, the admin operation is run extremely smoothly here in Cancun. For example, not only have we all enjoyed an incredibly speedy registration [...]

Cancún climate change talks: Opening and expectations

One year on from Copenhagen, the UN climate change talks began on Monday, hosted by the Government of Mexico, in Cancún. The expectations for Copenhagen were high, some believe too high. Many goalposts were moved forward in Copenhagen, but yes, the meeting fell short of concluding on one legally binding agreement. In opening the COP16 [...]

 

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