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So here is our final update on COP in Durban. A great success… not really. The end of all hope…. Well, apparently not. See if you are convinced. Really, the Kyoto Protocol has been slayed after Canada, Japan, Russia and the US declared no interest in continuing the treaty with mandatory emission targets (or even [...]
I am starting a little series today where we will introduce Asian-Pacific small (island) counties and their recent development in terms of renewable energy and efficiency, based on some articles written by Daphné Barbotte, Junior Policy and Communication Officer at the Southeast Asia and Pacific Secretariat of REEEP which contribute to the “Encyclopedia of Energy [...]
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
UN climate talks agrees deal, restores faith in UN process
13 Dec 2010
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, ended on Saturday with the adoption of a balanced package of decisions that set all governments more firmly on the path towards a low-emissions future and support enhanced action on climate change in the developing world. The package, dubbed the “Cancun Agreements” was welcomed to repeated loud [...]
Tuesday afternoon saw the commencement of the High-level Ministerial segment of the COP16 negotiations, opened by Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC‘s Executive Secretary. She stressed that the political stakes in the negotiations are very high; that the environmental stakes are very high; and that we have to honestly assess the effects of our actions on the most [...]
Rumour has it that the COP 16 President, Patricia Espinosa, invited all Ministers attending the COP16 negotiations to a nice dinner on the beach on the weekend. After the dinner, Ms Espinosa asked everyone to take off their shoes and walk with her on the beach. After a short stroll they arrived at a turtle [...]
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