CDM

Love for CDM could continue into 2015 and beyond… But this time who loves it, developing or developed?

Surya Karki December 9, 2013 0 Comments

by Surya Karki According to Annual Report of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, it has come through another difficult year. The main challenge facing the CDM remains the low level of demand for the certified emission reductions produced by CDM registered project activities and...

Weekend Policy Updates: All Night Parties

Nathan Thanki November 17, 2013 0 Comments

by Nathan Thanki Saturday saw thousands march through the streets of Warsaw towards to Stadium where the negotiations are being held. 600 people arrived on a train from Brussels. The march ended in a rally which included speakers from the Philippines Movement for Climate Justice. Negotiations, meanwhile, continued as contact groups and informals before convening as plenaries late into the night...

Adaptation Fund – Failed or Simply Adapting to Climate Change Bureaucracy

Surya Karki November 6, 2013 0 Comments

by Surya Karki The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to ‘reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.' Following that, paragraph 15 of decision 17/CP.7 noted that a...

Twisted logic: no money for adaptation unless the rich can emit more, and profit from it.

Nathan Thanki December 1, 2012 0 Comments

by nathan thanki The old axiom “adapt or die” is haunting the halls of the UNFCCC in Doha. As has been made clear over the years of apathy and inaction, the industrialised world will do everything it can to avoid making serious emissions reductions. The resulting 0.8 degree celsius warming, and certainty of a further 0.8 degrees, mean that those who are particularly vulnerable are...

A new era of Carbon Colonialism

greeder December 13, 2011 1 Comment

by Graham Reeder Say goodbye to equity. That was the sour taste we were left with as the COP president gavelled through 'agreement' after 'agreement' at 5am on Sunday morning. I will let others describe the scene on that night, what I want to focus on is what I see as a new step in contemporary colonialism. The UNFCCC laid out several core principles when it was first written,...