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Overview of UNFCCC Finance

Bohdan Zymka November 5, 2013 0 Comments

by Bohdan Zymka In an effort to prepare for the coming COP in Warsaw, Earth in Brackets presents a brief overview of finance under the UNFCCC. To get the best Cloud Security Posture Management tools, you can click here! The cost of climate change is rising. South Centre put the costs of mitigation and adaptation at 600 billion USD to 1.5 trillion USD per year, 5-10 times more then what has been...

No surprise, Connie: Doha was a failure

Nathan Thanki January 5, 2013 0 Comments

This is a response to European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard’s article entitled "Why the Doha climate conference was a success." It is soon to be available on New York Times dotearth blog. By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki Connie Hedegaard doesn’t respond to our tweets. She ignores us in the halls of UN climate talks. So when we read her in the...

The Night Shift

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 1 Comment

by nathan thanki The minarets are blaring. A prayer might be all we have left. It's 5am on Saturday morning and a rag-tag bunch of rabble rousers are scattered across various benches in a temporary tent-come-food-court that we've named "westaurant." It's been a long night - one of frustration, confusion, and every negotiating tactic under the sun (or moon!) The details...

When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose

Nathan Thanki December 7, 2012 0 Comments

by nathan thanki It is the sometimes orthodoxy that any deal is better than no deal, that by degrees we can overcome the climate crisis. It is "common sense" that you take what you can get and live to fight another day. But all this piecemeal haggling simply moves us, degree Celsius by degree Celsius, toward an unlivable and somehow even more unjust world. Let's have a new...

The Red Lines of Justice, Equity and Ambition – Press Briefing

Katie O'Brien December 7, 2012 0 Comments

On Thursday December 6th, Angeline Annesteus, Trudi Zundel, Nathan Thanki and Katie O'Brien spoke about the state of the negotiations and what needs to be done in a press briefing. Anjali Appadurai monitored the briefing. Trouble viewing? Watch here. Angeline Annesteus We...