Beyond the Negotiations

A Plea to Paul Kingsnorth: Don’t withdraw; re-draw. Join us in Rio.

Nathan Thanki May 23, 2012 22 Comments

by nathan thanki One busy day in March I received an email from a biology, conservation and ecology professor at COA. Attached to the message was a link to an article by Paul Kingsnorth from the February edition of Orion Magazine, entitled “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist.” I opened the link to have no more than a glance, but instead spent the next hour and a half reading,...

Over-rolled by Giants

jnurse May 22, 2012 0 Comments

~ Jane Nurse The first week of the Intersessionals in Bonn has seen a ferocious fight over the agenda of the ADP and an even more hotheaded haggling over the chair and vice-chair positions of the ADP. India on behalf of the Asia-Pacific group has laid claim to the chair long after the deadline for nominee submissions and after WEOG as well as GruLAC submitted their candidates. In this battle for...

Statement on behalf of 60% of the world’s population in the Durban Platform

greeder May 22, 2012 1 Comment

More analysis to come....this was delivered by Venezuela Submission on the Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Durban Plataform (AWG-DP) Bonn, 22nd of May Thank you for giving me the floor. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has the honor to make a statement on behalf of Argentina, Algeria, Bahrain, Bolivia, China, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, El Salvador, Egypt,...

Australia Dropping the Second Commitment Period?

Joe Perullo May 19, 2012 1 Comment

~by Joe Perullo In a contact group for the Kyoto Protocol, Australia announced that it has not yet taken a decision on taking on the second commitment period (CP2). This would be the third country to not adopt the second commitment period, after Japan and Russia. note: The US never ratified the KP and Canada dropped out of it completely. Staying in the KP but not adopting the second commitment...

Talks on Trade and Tech Transfer lead to Distrust in Process

Joe Perullo May 18, 2012 0 Comments

~by Joe Perullo The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) opened their meeting this morning on the issue of trade. The big fight was whether or not to continue discussions of trade in the LCA. The LCA is wrapping up its last year, tasked with developing a new legal outcome of some kind. The outcome will have to address the five items agreed as major...